BOOS from the Liverpool section of Wembley Stadium greeted William Windsor and the song devoted to his grandmother at the FA Cup final on Saturday.

Some Merseyside reds have jeered the national anthem at football matches for years in protest against the ruling class’s long mistreatment of the city, its citizens, its football fans and those who died at Hillsborough.

The fans’ failure to show placid deference to Britain’s medieval institutions enraged the flag-wavers.