Princess Kate's hidden hobby she even does in the dark - and Prince William hates it

Princess Kate has admitted that her hubby Prince William can't get his caput astir her passionateness for 1 of her much antithetic hobby - but she 'absolutely loves it'

The Princess of Wales has picked up an antithetic hobby - and her hubby Prince William thinks she is 'crazy'. It's nary concealed that Kate loves each mode of sports, from hockey to netball, tennis and skiing. But determination is 1 enactment that she 'absolutely loves' and William can't get his caput astir it.

The Princess opened up connected her 'crazy' hobby - which she besides does successful the acheronian - during an quality connected the podcast, The Good, The Bad and The Rugby , hosted by Mike Tindall, James Haskell and Alex Payne.

"I tin ever retrieve being physical, utilizing our bodies, whether it's walking, climbing the water district, successful Scotland [or] swimming from a young age. [My parents] ever encouraged america to beryllium physically progressive and sporty and they ever encouraged america into doing squad sports and trying things."

She past shared her emotion of cold h2o swimming, which has galore wellness benefits and involves swimming during the wintertime play successful outdoor locations oregon unheated pools.

Kate raved: "Cold swimming - the colder, the better. I perfectly emotion it. Slightly to the constituent wherever William's [saying] 'You're crazy' and it's acheronian and it's raining. I volition spell and question retired acold water. I emotion it!" It's wide that Princess Kate's adventurous tone extends to the water; backmost successful 2015, it was disclosed that she is besides an accomplished scuba diver.

Kensington Palace confirmed that she had passed a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Advanced Open Water Diver qualification, which volition let her to dive to a extent of up to 98 feet (30 metres). It besides means she tin dive with her husband, Prince William , who has had his scuba qualifications for immoderate clip – and is the president of the British Sub-Aqua Club.

A spokesperson for Kate told the Telegraph astatine the time, "Diving is thing the Duchess precise overmuch enjoys, and the Duke of Cambridge, who is of people president of the BSAC, has said successful the past that helium is hopeful his children volition go funny successful the sport."

It comes aft Mike and his podcast co-hosts released a publication titled The Good, the Bad & the Rugby — Unleashed successful which they spoke astir William and Kate's appearance. The mates taped their occurrence of the amusement successful September 2023 astatine Windsor Castle, alongside Mike's mother-in-law Princess Anne. Writing astir the Prince and Princess of Wales, Mike noted: “I deliberation the podcast humanised them a small bit, and I benignant of privation they'd fto america enactment the uncut mentation out, due to the fact that it would person blown the nationalist away.

'Down to earth'

"They came crossed arsenic down-to-earth, afloat engaged, comic and knowledgeable," helium wrote successful the book, arsenic excerpted successful the Daily Mail . "It was a acold much enlightening chat than I expected, not due to the fact that I thought they'd beryllium dull (I already knew that they weren't) but due to the fact that I cognize however everything to bash with the royal family is truthful cautiously controlled."

Mike - joined to the precocious Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall since 2011 - is not a moving subordinate of the royal family, but helium surely knows what the household is similar successful backstage — and wrote that the acquisition of being royal is thing similar Downton Abbey. They "are a precise adjacent household who loved each different dearly," Mike said, and described relaxed picnic lunches and watching tv with the late Queen Elizabeth — not "meals connected agelong tables and everyone dressed successful their finery each night".

"Zara and I would often ticker the racing with her [Queen Elizabeth] connected TV, arsenic I'm definite tons of radical speechmaking this person done with their Gran," Mike said. "Lunches were besides relaxed, particularly up successful Scotland, wherever luncheon would often beryllium heading retired into the unfastened abstraction of the Scottish Highlands for a picnic."