Lionesses homecoming: Burna Boy and Sarina Wiegman light-up Euro 2025 celebrations

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Sports reporter Annabel Bassett captures the highlights of England Women's homecoming celebrations following their remarkable Euro 2025 triumph.

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00:00So I'm here outside Buckingham Palace for the Euros homecoming event for the Lionesses after their

00:05back-to-back Euro titles. It was an incredible feat to win yet another Euros after winning on

00:10home soil back in 2022 and it was a much more turbulent journey than their prior one in England.

00:16The Lionesses had to fight back and play extra time three times in a row. They're now here today

00:20with their fans. This is what it's all about, coming home from Switzerland after proving

00:24victorious, beating Spain in the final on penalties, something England are notorious

00:28for being poor at, but England have changed the script there and yeah it's going to be an

00:32incredible day for all the fans who are packing out around me. It will come in through, people

00:37behind the barriers. I'm just about to walk in to the media pen to report on this, hopefully

00:42going to do an article and then capture as much as I can of today.

00:58And yeah, I don't know, 2022 is a fairytale, but this feels really hot and we're very proud

01:09of ourselves, so thank you and we hope you all too.

01:11I want to be in your life until the night is over. I want to hold you so tight, so tight,

01:22coming closer. I want to be in your life until the night is over. Until the night is over.

01:31Until the night is over.

01:33Make some applause for Laya Natty!

01:37Two penalties in that final from one of the world's best for Natty. What was going through

01:43your mind?

01:45Just do whatever I can for the team. They run around for 20 minutes. I've got it easy to

01:50sign. You're still in my own 18 hour box, haven't I? So, no, just whatever I can. They've

01:54got me through the whole tournament when it didn't start off the way I wanted to and they

01:59just kept me going.

02:24Definitely!

02:25holy Special voice

02:27forまing your fans

02:28here

02:30has come

02:31proof

02:33not

02:34the

02:36we

02:37know

02:40not

02:42that

02:43you

02:44can

02:54so the crowd are cheering as the lionesses lead the stage for their homecoming celebration here

03:10in london fans have packed out buckingham palace and it was an incredible event to have attended

03:15bonoboy featured and even have a small two incredible artists who have inspired the lionesses

03:21throughout their journey to victory what have you done today to make you feel proud has been one of

03:25the lionesses theme tunes to their tournament triumph which of course has been a very turbulent

03:30journey an extra 120 minutes in three of their matches and penalties winning it against the

03:35world champion spain but yeah as i said what an occasion to be a part of and burner boy featuring

03:39for serena viegman that is one of her favorite artists so yeah an incredible day all the

03:43journalists here packing it out the fans i couldn't really see them from my vantage point but there

03:48were a lot according to these screens and yeah i just can't wait for women's football to get bigger

03:52and bigger after this momentous occasion the lionesses back-to-back euro champions the trophy

03:57staying home in england for another four years and we'll have to see if lionesses can defend their crown

04:02for another four years and we'll have to see if lionesses can defend their crown for a third time

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