London To Celebrate Lionesses With Open-top Bus Parade

The England women's shot squad will return portion successful an open-top autobus parade successful cardinal London connected Tuesday aft their Euro 2025 triumph complete Spain.

A convoy on The Mall will statesman astatine 12:10 BST earlier a ceremonial astatine nan Queen Victoria Memorial successful beforehand of Buckingham Palace.

Fans will beryllium capable to be nan arena for free and nan celebrations will beryllium broadcast unrecorded crossed nan BBC, ITV and Sky.

On Monday, nan Lionesses were greeted by jubilant crowds arsenic they landed backmost successful nan UK, earlier attending a reception astatine Downing Street hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

The ceremonial astatine nan Queen Victoria Memorial will beryllium hosted by erstwhile England prima Alex Scott.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said nan Lionesses' homecoming parade would beryllium a chance for fans to "cheer these heroes home" aft nan squad had "done our state proud".

Hundreds of fans holding flags and dressed successful England kits waited extracurricular Southend Airport connected Monday to drawback a glimpse of nan triumphant squad.

England defended their European title pinch a 3-1 punishment shootout triumph successful nan Euro 2025 last successful Basel connected Sunday.

Chloe Kelly scored nan winning spot footwear pursuing 2 saves by goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, helping nan squad go nan first English squad to triumph a awesome tourney connected overseas soil.

Back home, much than 16 cardinal group saw nan lucifer unrecorded connected TV - the most-watched tv infinitesimal of nan twelvemonth truthful far.

"The Lionesses person brought it location again," Rayner said during nan No 10 event. "And what a awesome emotion that is. Champions of Europe again."

England head Sarina Wiegman besides gave a short reside - joking that being astatine Downing Street was "different from opinionated adjacent to a pitch".

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who was successful Scotland connected Monday gathering US President Donald Trump, held a five-minute video telephone pinch Wiegman and immoderate of nan England squad during nan reception.

"It's beautiful here," nan England coach could beryllium heard telling Sir Keir arsenic she thanked him for supporting nan squad during nan Euros.

The arena came hours earlier ministers announced plans to double nan magnitude of clip women's and girls' shot teams get allocated astatine government-funded sports facilities.

The government antecedently pledged to walk £900m connected awesome UK sporting events and grassroots facilities - including £400m for caller and upgraded sports accommodation complete nan adjacent 4 years.

Ministers opportunity a caller taskforce will bring together leaders from crossed athletics and academia pinch nan purpose of replicating nan advancement made successful women's shot successful different sports.

King Charles III besides paid tribute to nan Lionesses connected Monday, saying they had nan Royal Family's "warmest appreciation and admiration".

It is understood plans for a reception successful nan autumn astatine Buckingham Palace aliases Windsor Castle are being explored by officials.

Asked astir calls for nan squad to beryllium recognised pinch honours, nan premier minister's spokesperson stressed location was an independent process for nominations.

But he added: "I dream we'll spot tons of nominations for this unthinkable winning team."

Downing Street dismissed calls for an other slope vacation pursuing nan victory, pinch nan spokesperson saying: "If we had a slope vacation each clip nan Lionesses triumph we'd ne'er spell to work."

Royal Mail has, however, announced plans to people England's triumph pinch a typical postmark, which will beryllium applied to stamped message crossed nan UK from Monday to Friday.

It reads: "It's Home. Again. Champions of Europe 2025. England Women's Football Squad."