{"id":391980,"date":"2025-09-02T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391980\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:22:13","slug":"kate-middletons-hobby-that-king-charles-isnt-a-fan-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391980\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton\u2019s hobby that King Charles isn&#8217;t a fan of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"c43acb14-2118-4d0a-be34-5a574b625f37\">Whilst a lot of us will have one or two hobbies we really enjoy, the Princess of Wales\u2019s list of favourite activities is pretty extensive. From playing the piano to playing tennis and even &#8211; rather her than me &#8211; cold water swimming, Kate is accomplished at so many things.<\/p>\n<p>The future Queen shares many of her passions with her nearest and dearest, especially when it comes to sports. However, one of Kate\u2019s favourite hobbies hasn\u2019t got her father-in-law\u2019s seal of approval. Instead, King Charles finds it &#8220;impossible&#8221; and &#8220;less than satisfying&#8221; when he tries it.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously revealed by the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/exhibition-of-hrh-the-prince-of-waless-watercolours-opens-at-the-garrison-chapel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/exhibition-of-hrh-the-prince-of-waless-watercolours-opens-at-the-garrison-chapel\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">King\u2019s Foundation<\/a> that His Majesty took up painting after deciding that photography wasn\u2019t that fulfilling for him. King Charles explained this in a display panel for an exhibition of some of his watercolour paintings in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SLEqe2XuRvxwgTGohPfR7S.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine, Princess of Wales and King Charles visit The Prince's Foundation for Children and The Arts at Dulwich Picture Gallery on March 15, 2012\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SLEqe2XuRvxwgTGohPfR7S.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SLEqe2XuRvxwgTGohPfR7S.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Photo by Danny Martindale\/WireImage via Getty)<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-9b8796be-9026-4201-9c0d-5050a0e15cd2\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"537aaa5f-85cf-4837-ae50-82f761ff7934-0\">&#8220;I took up painting entirely because I found photography less than satisfying,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;Quite simply, I experienced an overwhelming urge to express what I saw through the medium of watercolour and to convey that almost \u2018inner\u2019 sense of texture which is impossible to achieve via photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it seems that King Charles isn\u2019t fond of being behind the camera and this couldn\u2019t be more of a contrast to his daughter-in-law. The Princess of Wales is a passionate amateur photographer and she\u2019s taken plenty of iconic pictures of the Royal Family over the years.<\/p>\n<p>It was Kate who took Queen Camilla\u2019s cover photograph for her guest-edited issue of Country Life in 2022, having been personally requested by Her Majesty. As per the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11007715\/Camilla-dotes-natural-photographer-Kate-reveals-photo-Prince-Charles-approves-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11007715\/Camilla-dotes-natural-photographer-Kate-reveals-photo-Prince-Charles-approves-of.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Daily Mail<\/a>, in an ITV documentary, Camilla\u2019s Country Life, the Queen described the Princess of Wales as not only a very skilled photographer, but one with a flair for taking very natural snaps.<\/p>\n<p id=\"572e2cfe-d14f-47a8-a109-8080654c91a2\">&#8220;They are very good pictures. She does it very naturally. We had a lot of fun doing it,&#8221; she reportedly disclosed. &#8220;It was very relaxed and very kind that the [Princess of Wales] came with her camera &#8211; she is an extremely good photographer. It was all very casual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news, interesting opinion, expert advice on styling and beauty trends, and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<p>She clearly put Queen Camilla at ease and Kate\u2019s final cover image was awarded the coveted Cover of the Year Award by the Professional Publishers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>Having your photography skills recognised by the industry is a huge honour and whilst King Charles finds this medium &#8220;less than satisfying&#8221;, his daughter-in-law clearly gets a lot of joy from it. As a senior royal and mum-of-three, Kate\u2019s diary is pretty packed yet she still finds time to capture precious family moments and memories.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d8e93cd7-8d9d-4c1e-9c30-fe79083fd159\">She took Princess Charlotte\u2019s tenth birthday photo released this year and although she doesn\u2019t get behind the camera for these pictures quite as regularly as she used to, she\u2019s showing that it\u2019s still a valued hobby of hers.<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales and King Charles might not share a love of photography, but they can likely bond over art. Kate is a talented artist herself and studied Art History at university.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 the Waleses shared one of her atmospheric sketches of St Andrews in a post thanking the people, communities and organisations they visited in Scotland. It was dated 2002 and so was drawn by the Princess of Wales three years before she graduated.<\/p>\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/us\/tag\/catherine-princess-of-wales\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/catherine-princess-of-wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine, Princess of Wales<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/us\/tag\/king-charles\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles III<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whilst a lot of us will have one or two hobbies we really enjoy, the Princess of Wales\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-391980","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115134919358331244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391980","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=391980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}