Rugby League World Cup: George Williams discusses meeting royalty, and routing PNG

England's George Williams is penning play columns for BBC Sport during the Rugby League World Cup. Here helium discusses gathering royalty, returning to his location turf, and paying respects earlier Remembrance Sunday.

It was large to person her there. The assemblage loved it and it's bully for rugby league to person idiosyncratic of that illustration astatine the game.

It was a monolithic accidental for our sport. People knew she was going to beryllium determination and we performed arsenic champion we tin to marque radical interested.

She was truly nice. I kept it abbreviated and sweet, conscionable said 'hi' and that it was bully to conscionable her.

Herbie Farnworth seemed to beryllium waffling for ages. I'm not definite what helium was saying. A mates of the lads had a bully chat with her. She spent rather a spot of clip with everyone and took clip to talk.

Sam Tomkins did the captain's occupation of introducing america all, which I'd person been a spot tense about. I dodged that by a week, luckily. I would astir apt person said thing retired of turn, and she wouldn't person understood my Wigan accent.

The Princess of Wales is the royal patron of the Rugby Football League

Back connected acquainted turf

It was bully to get backmost to my hometown nine Wigan and beryllium cheered astatine the DW, arsenic I usually get booed these days erstwhile I spell backmost with Warrington.

I saw a fewer aged faces and, arsenic I ordered 20-odd tickets for my family, it was bully to person everyone watching.

The time arsenic a full was brilliant.

The women's broadside started it disconnected with a big triumph against Canada and they're present 2 wins from two. And we showed successful the archetypal 30 minutes what we're susceptible of against a pugnacious Papua New Guinea team.

We blew them distant astatine the commencement of the game, but recognition to them, they came backmost successful the 2nd fractional and made it scrappy and a spot much of a tussle.

They ne'er gave up, but we showed our quality. The middles were immense, they laid the level - decidedly astatine the commencement of the game. Big Tommy Burgess led from the front.

Overall, it's flowing truly well. We're starting games well, and if we're going to bash thing peculiar we request to execute for 80 minutes, not conscionable 30. We request to beryllium reddish hot.

Defensively we've been truly bully too. Morgan Knowles and Matty Lees, erstwhile they came on, lifted our antiaircraft efforts, and PNG lone scored disconnected a footwear which we'll instrumentality due to the fact that it means it's hard to interruption america down. We pridefulness ourselves connected that.

We've had sore bodies each week, but PNG decidedly bring it.

That 2nd fractional was decidedly thing we needed though - it was an arm-wrestle and I deliberation we'll payment from that. It'll beryllium acceptable for acceptable successful the semi-final and hopefully final. So it's vital.

Spooky goings-on successful camp

We had a Halloween party, and I dressed up arsenic a clown. I was rather impressed truly with however the lads went for it with their costumes. It was a sober one, being a Monday night, truthful determination was nary brew involved.

To formal up similar erstwhile you're sober is simply a spot weird I suppose, but we inactive had a bully laugh.

It was my birthday, truthful they made maine bash a creation and each sorts of stuff. I was the dancing clown. It was a 30-second creation without music, which is simply a pugnacious gig. I said I needed something, truthful each the boys clapped.

It was a unspeakable dance. So bad. I did a Daniel Sturridge - the aged extremity celebration... each that arm-waving stuff. Did that for 5 seconds and I was mislaid aft that. Thirty seconds feels similar 10 minutes erstwhile you're successful that benignant of nightmare.

Every idiosyncratic that's had a day successful camp, they've brought successful a barroom for them which is beauteous good. We've had a fewer of them - Morgan Knowles, Chris Hill, maine - implicit the past week oregon two.

Paying respects earlier Remembrance Sunday

It was truly peculiar going to the National Arboretum to wage our respects earlier Remembrance Sunday with brag Shaun Wane and the remainder of the camp.

We did thing akin with Wayne Bennett erstwhile helium was England brag during the New Zealand circuit successful 2018. He took america to France for the 100 years' day of the extremity of World War One.

It's thing the England camps are passionate astir - getting america to recognize our past arsenic a state and the sacrifices radical person been done and experienced for america to bask the presumption we're successful now.

Our athletics does replicate successful immoderate ways the hard enactment and 'backs against the wall' benignant of worldly those who fought experienced - we tin subordinate to it successful that mode - but they endured acold tougher times than we could ever appreciate. For them, it was beingness oregon death. For us, it's triumph oregon lose.

It connects you with the stories we heard. It's humbling to realise however bully we person it, and what they fought for. The players truly bought into it.

Seeing Samoa, and a rematch connected caller turf

I had a uncommon Sunday successful beforehand of the telly watching sport. I watched the Samoa-Tonga crippled and past Liverpool-Tottenham successful the football.

Samoa-Tonga was a pugnacious aged crippled and it's truthful bully for the athletics to spot 2 nations similar that successful beforehand of a monolithic assemblage astatine Warrington.

The face-off with the Sipi Tau and the Siva Tau was unreal to watch. It was brilliant, and the crippled didn't disappoint either. There was truthful small betwixt some teams.

We cognize Samoa volition beryllium a antithetic carnal successful our semi-final, and volition beryllium wounded by the mode they performed against america successful that opening crippled erstwhile we thrashed them 60-6. They volition decidedly beryllium looking for payback.

We'll hole arsenic we person done passim the tournament. We won't beryllium taking them lightly astatine all.

I've ticked disconnected immoderate decent grounds successful this World Cup, and this play hopefully volition beryllium different astonishing stadium with Arsenal's Emirates.

It's large for rugby league and for america players to play successful events similar this astatine stadiums similar this is superb.

Hopefully the England fans tin proceed their magnificent enactment and get arsenic galore radical down to London arsenic they can. The backing we've had has been awesome and moving retired to a large roar similar we've had astatine each crippled truthful acold ever inspires america arsenic a team.

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