The Royal Family LOVE sitting down to watch the darts, claims Barry Hearn after Prince Harry visit to World Championship

DARTS is not conscionable for the moving people but The Royal Family and Premier League footballers, claims Barry Hearn.

The PDC proprietor has taken darts into the mainstream since taking implicit successful the 1990s.

The World Darts Championship last betwixt Luke Littler and Luke Humphries attracted much than 11million viewers this year, and determination whitethorn person been immoderate members of the Royal Family amongst them.

Prince Harry took a travel to Ally Pally successful 2014 to ticker the World Darts Championship, and fans began chanting his sanction erstwhile helium appeared connected screen.

Hearn is arrogant that helium has taken darts from a working people athletics to 1 enjoyed by all, adjacent the affluent and famous.

He told Sky Sports' Game of Throws documentary: "This is simply a large manufacture now. Over the centuries we person had successful Britain a people operation which means we cognize our spot - I ne'er bought into that.

"We've transformed that present and Members of the Royal Family beryllium down to ticker darts. MPs and Premier League footballers begging for tickets to beryllium next to a docker oregon a newsagent oregon a busman.

"But the leaders of that satellite are the players themselves due to the fact that without the players you don't person anything. And successful darts the players volition not fto america down."

Hearn enjoyed Prince Harry's institution astatine the darts and helium adjacent tried to endear him to the boisterous crowd.

The sports promoter said: "He'd conscionable travel retired of the army and he's evidently connected a spot of a bender, I think. He brought 3 mates along. They were large fun," Hearn said.

"And astatine 1 stage, the assemblage started chanting. The rules were rather strict. We were allowed to enactment his look connected the large screens conscionable 3 times during the evening, conscionable a flash.

"So helium was having a due nighttime retired with his mates, having a fewer pints, enjoying himself. And the assemblage started chanting: 'Harry, Harry, springiness america a wave'. And helium looked astatine maine and I saw a spot of inquisitiveness successful his look - arsenic if to say, 'What bash I do?'

"I looked astatine him and said, 'If you basal up present and you question backmost to these people, your thoroughfare credibility is assured for beingness due to the fact that you've identified with the mean man, the radical that signifier the bulk of this country'.

"And helium looked astatine maine and said, 'I don't deliberation I'm allowed to…' I thought that was rather sad."

GAME OF THROWS: INSIDE DARTS from 30 November and the PDC World Championship from 15 December connected Sky and NOW