Princess Kate’s unusual hobby which Wills cannot get his head around – and she even does it in pitch black

PRINCESS Kate has picked up a alternatively antithetic hobby - which Wills can't get his caput around.

It's nary concealed that mum-of-three Kate, 42, enjoys keeping active and each sorts of sports, whether that's hockey, netball, tennis oregon skiing.

But determination is 1 enactment that the Princess ''absolutely loves'' and William, besides 42, thinks his woman is ''crazy''.

Kate opened up astir her hobby, which she besides does successful the dark, during an quality connected the podcast, The Good, The Bad an d 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 Lake District, successful Scotland  [or] swimming from a young age.

''[My parents] always encouraged america to beryllium physically progressive and sporty and they ever encouraged america into doing squad sports and trying things."

She past chatted astir her emotion of swimming successful acold water, which boasts galore health benefits and involves swimming during the wintertime play successful outdoor locations oregon unheated pools.

The 42-year-old 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 h2o activities person a peculiar spot successful Kate's heart, arsenic backmost successful 2015, it was disclosed that she is besides an accomplished scuba diver.

Kensington Palace confirmed that the mum-of-three had passed a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Advanced Open Water Diver qualification, which means she's allowed to dive to a extent of up to 98 feet (30 metres).

Prince William has besides 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."

Speaking astir her quality successful the podcast, Mike Tindall, 46, 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.

"They came crossed arsenic down-to-earth, afloat engaged, comic and knowledgeable," helium wrote successful the book, The Good, The Bad and The Rugby - Unleashed.

"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."

The erstwhile rugby prima who tied the knot with the precocious Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall successful 2011 is not a moving subordinate of the family.

However, helium surely knows what they're similar successful backstage — and revealed that the acquisition of being royal is thing similar Downton Abbey.

They "are a precise adjacent household who loved each different dearly," Mike said, arsenic helium described relaxed picnic lunches and watching TV with the precocious Queen - and not "meals connected agelong tables and everyone dressed successful their finery each night".