Princess Kate is known for her competitive nature, particularly when it comes to sports, as ever since her school days she has enjoyed taking part in a range of team activities.
While she was a student at Marlborough College she played hockey for the school, then as a young woman she was on a rowing team and continues to play tennis and go swimming.
On a visit today (October 12) to a mental fitness workshop in Marlow run by Sports Aid and BelievePerform, Kate was seen having a go at netball and goalball, and even managed to score on just her second attempt at getting the ball through the net.
Naturally the Princess of Wales is keen to pass on this love of sport and fitness to her three children, especially her daughter Princess Charlotte, who seemed to develop her own passion for hockey and netball when she went to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year.
Seen at her first public engagement with her parents but without her brothers, Charlotte enjoyed watching the hockey so much a Game board member revealed the Princess wanted to take it up herself.
Kate is encouraging Charlotte to be more sporty (Image: Getty)
Ama Agbeze, a Commonwealth netball gold medalist, said: “Kate and William went with Princess Charlotte to the England hockey match.
“Charlotte was saying she wants to play hockey. When I’d met Kate before she’d said that she played netball so I said ‘she has to play netball, stop’.
“But it doesn’t matter as long as she plays sport, she can play every sport under the sun. It will be good if people take her lead.
“If Princess Charlotte is sitting there and thinking ‘I want to do this’, how many other children are watching and thinking that?”
Kate added that Charlotte was now able to try out football and rugby during her PE lessons, something that had not been available to girls during Kate’s school days.
Kate is still just as sporty as she was at school (Image: Getty)
The eight-year-old royal also seems to have inherited her mother’s competitive streak, according to Rugby Football Union president Nigel Gillingham.
In June this year Kate paid a visit to the Maidenhead Rugby Club, where she told other attendees that she enjoys a game of rugby with Charlotte and her brothers, Prince George and Prince Louis.
Mr Gillingham said of the visit: “Apparently Charlotte is very much in [Kate’s] mould, very competitive as well apparently.”
