{"id":108213,"date":"2025-05-17T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108213\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:28:10","slug":"princess-kates-unusual-hobby-that-prince-william-jokes-shes-crazy-for-doing-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108213\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate’s unusual hobby that Prince William jokes she’s ‘crazy’ for doing | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Kate<\/a> once revealed a passionate hobby that husband, Prince William<\/a>, has branded as “crazy”. Kate spoke about her sporting antics when she, William, and Princess Anne sat down with Mike Tindall<\/a> for an episode of his podcast ‘The Good, the Bad and the Rugby’ at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n

During the conversation with Mike Tindall, who has been married to Zara Tindall since 2011<\/a>, Kate divulged her lifelong commitment to physical activity. “I really generally love all sports,” the Princess told Tindall, a former professional rugby player<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Personally, I love swimming. I absolutely love it. The colder the better. I absolutely love it.”<\/p>\n

William shortly after remarked: “Catherine, you\u2019re crazy.”<\/p>\n

Kate also said: “I can always remember being physical, using our bodies, whether it’s walking, climbing the Lake District, in Scotland [or] swimming from a young age. [My parents] always encouraged us to be physically active and sporty and they always encouraged us into doing team sports and trying things.”<\/p>\n

During the podcast episode in September, 2023, Kate also revealed how the royal pair are competitive when it comes to playing tennis. “I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve managed to finish a game of tennis, the two of us,” Kate added. “It becomes a mental challenge between the two of us.”<\/p>\n

During the podcast episode filmed in September, 2023, Kate also revealed how the royal pair are competitive<\/a> when it comes to playing tennis. “I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve managed to finish a game of tennis, the two of us,” Kate added. “It becomes a mental challenge between the two of us.”<\/p>\n

When Mike asked if any of their competitiveness had passed down to their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, the Princess Royal said: “Just a little bit, I would suggest.”<\/p>\n

“What I think is really interesting is that they are all obviously very different temperaments,” Kate said, adding that “they are growing and trying out different sports.”<\/p>\n

She added: “They’re obviously still really young. It’s going to be interesting to see how that grows and develops.”<\/p>\n

‘The Good, the Bad and the Rugby’ is a weekly podcast starring former England legends James Haskell and Mike Tindall, alongside noted broadcaster Alex Payne, that debuted at No. 1 in the Apple charts before releasing its first episode.<\/p>\n

In Mike’s book, titled ‘The Good, the Bad and the Rugby – Unleased’, writing specifically about the Prince and Princess of Wales, Mike wrote: “I think the podcast humanised them a little bit, and I kind of wish they\u2019d let us put the uncut version out, because it would have blown the public away.”<\/p>\n

Mike and Zara met in 2003 during England\u2019s World Cup-winning run<\/a> in Australia and married in Scotland in July 2011, three months after William and Kate married at Westminster Abbey in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Kate once revealed a passionate hobby that husband, Prince William, has branded as “crazy”. Kate spoke about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,8129,2832,532,5118,8606,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-108213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-mike-tindall","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-anne","16":"tag-princess-kate","17":"tag-princess-of-wales","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114521525643035795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}