We’re Pretty Sure This Makes Ryan Reynolds at Least a Duke

In “We Purchased a Soccer Staff” information, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney—who bought the Welsh professional staff Wrexham AFC in late 2020—met with King Charles III and Camilla, queen consort, in Wales this previous weekend. Queued on the sod-green pitch of the Racetrack Floor (which is by some measures the oldest soccer stadium on this planet), the Hollywood lads subsequent to the British royals made for the wildest photograph op of the final month, and one of many extra unusually pleasing menswear match-ups this 12 months.

Reigning menswear monarch Charles, carrying a fairly British double-breasted peak-lapel overcoat with a polka dot tie, stood subsequent to Reynolds, who wore a slim navy go well with, buttoned-up sweater vest, and nubby knit tie. All of it gave off a kind of doting-headmaster-meets-head-boy vibe. (Funnily sufficient, Reynolds wore a really related outfit to the Folks’s Alternative Awards final week.) At occasions, the monarch and the actor gave the impression to be having a tête-à-tête—maybe chatting about how issues are going for Wrexham, or their assorted standards for good, regular outfits. 

King Charles III and Camilla, queen consort, speak to Wrexham AFC co-owners Ryan Reynolds (L) and Rob McElhenney (R) throughout their go to. Shaped in 1864, Wrexham AFC is the third oldest skilled soccer staff on this planet.Christopher Furlong/Getty Pictures

Reynolds posted a photograph of their assembly with the caption: “Welcome to Wrexham Season 2: Charles in Cost.”

The story of how Canadian-born Reynolds, figurehead of the Deadpool franchise and all-around main man, and American-born McElhenney, creator and star of the sitcom It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia, made it to Wales on this capability has been an extended and generally humorous one. The journey has additionally been propelled by a really Hollywood sense of optimism: “Possibly we do not make all of it the way in which to the Premier League,” Reynolds puzzled to GQ earlier this 12 months, “but when this membership is promoted, as soon as, twice, that is epic, proper? That is historical past.” Historical past, certainly!