{"id":286956,"date":"2023-09-09T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=286956"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:21:55","slug":"reynolds-and-mcelhenney-did-monarchy-boot-camp-before-kings-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/reynolds-and-mcelhenney-did-monarchy-boot-camp-before-kings-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynolds and McElhenney did &apos;monarchy boot camp&apos; before King&apos;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney open up on &#8216;monarchy boot camp&#8217; to prepare for King Charles&#8217; visit to Wrexham last year&#8230; and getting a &#8216;crash course in royal etiquette<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>King Charles and Queen Camilla visited the Welsh club last December<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>And Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney made sure to prepare for their guests<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney underwent &#8216;monarchy boot camp&#8217; prior to King Charles&#8217; visit to the club last year, they revealed in a new video.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles and Queen Camilla made the trip to Wales last December, and a new promotional clip for season two of &#8216;Welcome to Wrexham&#8217; shows the preparations that the club&#8217;s Hollywood owners went through beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So, the King of England called,&#8217; Reynolds said in the video. &#8216;We went to monarchy boot camp.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s like the military except your pinky&#8217;s always up,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the humorous video, Reynolds and\u00a0McElhenney can be seen being guided by an etiquette coach, who informs them that their handshake with the Royals must only be &#8216;two pumps and release.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/14\/75244219-12499083-image-m-11_1694264582384.jpg\" height=\"973\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Reynolds meets with King Charles last summer at Wrexhmam&#8217;s Racehorse Ground<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/13\/75244353-12499083-image-a-9_1694263960314.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>King Charles was also introduced to Wrexham players\u00a0 by club manager Phil Parkinson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/14\/75244421-12499083-image-a-10_1694264487408.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rob McElhenney stood beside Queen Camilla during the visit, which happened in December<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Welcome to Wrexham (@wrexhamfx)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8216;I feel like a serial killer,&#8217; Reynolds laughed in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>McIlhenney added in the show, as reported by the New York Post,\u00a0&#8216;I think I am going have a hard time with this.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The idea of bowing to somebody. It triggers something.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham&#8217;s executive director, Humphrey Ker, reportedly explained the importance of the Royals&#8217; visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are trying to get \u00a320m worth of Kop [stadium seating] funding from the UK government,&#8217; he said.\u00a0&#8216;Two years of work has gone into lining up all the pieces of the puzzle to try and get this funding and that will give us an extra 5,500 seats.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It will also give us a stadium that is deemed to be of international standards so we can bring Welsh football back to the Racecourse. It&#8217;s the biggest and most expensive piece of the endeavor.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/13\/75244143-12499083-image-a-3_1694263100518.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood pair bought the club in November 2020, and Wrexham was promoted last year<\/p>\n<p>Despite Reynolds and McIlhenney&#8217;s qualms, the visit seemed to go well as King Charles glowed about the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I had the opportunity to see one of the other wonders of Wrexham, namely the football club, which is busy putting Wrexham on the map as never before,&#8217; he told dignitaries during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds and McIlhenney, who have owned the club since November 2020, has seen Wrexham explode in popularity due to its FX show, which returns for a second season on September 12.<\/p>\n<p>And on the field, The Red Dragons were promoted last season to League Two, the fourth tier of English soccer.<\/p>\n<p>The club sits 13th after six games, with two wins and three draws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12499083\/Ryan-Reynolds-Rob-McElhenney-open-monarchy-boot-camp-prepare-King-Charles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney open up on &#8216;monarchy boot camp&#8217; 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