{"id":530376,"date":"2026-06-11T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/530376\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:14","slug":"prince-william-quietly-rebels-against-kate-middletons-rule-over-horror-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/530376\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William ‘quietly’ rebels against Kate Middleton’s rule over ‘horror’ hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> has revealed he still keeps up his beloved motorbike hobby \u2013 but rides them “quietly” and “in disguise”.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales, 43, admitted he “loves bikes” as he visited Norfolk Blood Bikes on Thursday, just a stone’s throw from his Anmer Hall retreat, which he shares with wife Kate.<\/p>\n

However, the admission won’t be a popular one with the Princess of Wales<\/a>, as she once admitted his love for the hobby “filled her with horror”.<\/p>\n

During his visit, he viewed a 25-strong fleet of bikes and cars used to transport blood, plasma, breast milk and medical supplies, with William And Kate<\/a> privately paying for a Ford Kuga to join them. The car, called “Prince William”, also joined a Ford Focus called “Queen Elizabeth II”.<\/p>\n

Seeing the bikes lined up in their livery, William confessed, “I love bikes” and said: “I do still ride now and again, quietly”. Giving a knowing nod, he said: “Disguise”.<\/p>\n

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    Speaking to bikers at Norwich University Hospital, he said: “It\u2019s a crucial part of the community, not many people understand the network.<\/p>\n

    He added: “You guys provide such a crucial link to what goes on. You guys are amazing.”<\/p>\n

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    Prince William viewed a fleet of bikes at Norfolk Blood Bikes (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    Prince William’s love of motorbikes<\/p>\n

    The future King passed his motorcycle test in 2002, when he was 19. He’d passed his car driving test the day after his 17th birthday.<\/p>\n

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    Prince William has always loved motorbikes (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    He loved riding motorbikes in his younger years, but later said he’d “toned it down” after becoming a father to Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, eight.<\/p>\n

    He owned a number of his own vehicles, including Ducati 1198s, which have a top speed of 180mph.<\/p>\n

    The royal also shared his passion with his younger brother, Prince Harry, with the pair completing a 1,000-mile motorbike trek for charity across the South African wilderness in 2008.<\/p>\n

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    Prince William and Prince Harry took part in a charity motorcycle ride in 2008 (POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    Kate admitted during a visit to Dundee in 2015: “He’s still riding it. It always fills me with horror when he goes out on it. I’m terrified. Hopefully, I’m going to keep George off it.”<\/p>\n

    Change of transport\"Prince<\/p>\n

    Prince William now likes an e-scooter (Alamy Live News.)<\/p>\n

    More recently, William has chosen an e-scooter as his preferred mode of transportation, using it to travel around the grounds at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n

    He even rode it while appearing in an episode of Eugene Levy’s Apple+ TV series The Reluctant Traveler last October, telling the actor: “It’s quite fun!”<\/p>\n

    However, William has been forced to follow a new ban on his scooter at the estate.<\/p>\n

    Strict park rules now state: “Aside from cyclists, the roads are reserved for residents and Estate workers. All other forms of motorised transport are not permitted within Windsor Great Park. Examples include: E-scooters, Hoverboards, One-wheels.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William has revealed he still keeps up his beloved motorbike hobby \u2013 but rides them “quietly” and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,2445,19,17,5092,3480,69572],"class_list":["post-530376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-getty-images","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-william-and-kate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116733138446148551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}