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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Suzanne Wrack

Demi Stokes: ‘Being quite open and honest, I can help a lot of people’

Demi Stokes has credited England manager Sarina Wiegman for the team’s development.
Demi Stokes has credited England manager Sarina Wiegman for the team’s development. Photograph: Naomi Baker/UEFA/Getty Images

Demi Stokes is fielding plenty of questions from her England teammates as they prepare for the looming home Euros. “Have you got any updates this morning?”; “How’s he doing?”; and “Can I come round?” are regular ones.

Two months before the tournament, which start next week, Stokes’s partner, Katie Harrington, gave birth to Harlen and so the Manchester City defender is juggling parenthood with preparations for the Euros alongside her son’s new army of aunts. “The girls have been great,” says the 30-year-old. “I think he’s going to be very spoilt with a lot of aunties around. He’s a very lucky boy to have all the people that he has around him.”

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