Queen Elizabeth hasn’t ordered Cristiano Ronaldo autographed jerseys from Manchester United

• Dilip Kumar Sripada

A post is being shared on social media claiming that Queen Elizabeth II had ordered 80 signed jerseys of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Royal Court. Also, this post claims that the Queen has made a personal request to Manchester United football club to reserve her the first signed jersey of Ronaldo. On 31 August 2021, Portuguese star Football player Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed his return to the Manchester Football Club. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.

Claim: Queen Elizabeth II had made a personal request to the Manchester United for a signed jersey of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Fact: This news was first published by the Sport Innovation Society Twitter handle on 01 September 2021. Later they deleted this tweet by issuing a public apology for not confirming the veracity of the note. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.

When we searched to check whether Queen Elizabeth II had made any such request for a Cristiano Ronaldo autographed jersey, it is found out that the Sport Innovation Society had first reported this information through a tweet on 01 September 2021. In the tweet, the Sport Innovation Society claimed that Queen Elizabeth had ordered 80 signed jerseys of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Royal Court and she had made a personal request to the Manchester United football club to reserve the first signed jersey for her.

However, the Sport Innovation Society subsequently deleted this tweet and later issued an apology for not confirming the veracity of the note. Reporting the complete details, the UK-based ‘Daily Express’ news website published an article on 01 September 2021. Several news outlets that published articles based on Sport Innovation Society’s tweet which later issued a clarification note in the update section.

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We could not confirm the veracity of the note from the Queen and CR7 so we decided to delete the tweet. Apologies

— Sport Innovation Society (@sis) September 1, 2021

In the past, a few websites reported that Queen Elizabeth was an ardent fan of West Ham United football club and also mentioned that she had a soft spot for Arsenal football club. They can be seen here and here. But the Queen hasn’t made any recent statement on her favourite football team or favourite player. ‘Snopes’ website had also published a fact-check article on this false news spreading on social media.

To sum it up, Queen Elizabeth II hasn’t ordered Cristiano Ronaldo autographed jerseys from Manchester United.