As someone who follows tennis, I seriously cannot get into pickleball or “padel tennis” as enjoyable sports to follow or watch. They might be fun to play – and I’ve heard from people who have a great time playing those sports – but they’re just not watchable to me and I don’t understand why they’re televised. Well, the Prince and Princess of Wales are both keen tennis players and tennis fans. But they’re getting a bit older, so they’ve reportedly taken up padel tennis. In case you’re wondering about the difference between pickleball and padel tennis, it’s to do with the differences in balls and racquets. The scoring is also different.
Prince William and Kate are hooked on padel tennis and play fiercely competitive matches with pals, The Sun can reveal. The couple gave the world’s fastest-growing sport the royal seal of approval after trying it at courts close to their Windsor home. And the padel-loving pair now regularly play doubles with friends — but on opposite sides.
Wills, 40, and 41-year-old Kate were spotted in recent weeks playing the game at a plush complex with luxury leisure facilities. The all-action game is a cross between squash and tennis using a solid padel rather than a stringed racquet.
Worldwide, it now has 25 million players, including celebs such as David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo and Elle Macpherson. Wills and Kate leave their three children at home as they head off for the 90-minute sessions.
One witness stumbled across the royal pair playing with their pals. They said: “I had to look twice as it seemed surreal but they were having a great time. William was on one team with a male friend and Kate was on the other team with a male friend and there was lots of banter and a lot of laughing but both sides fought every point. They looked good at it and did not come across as beginners.”
Sure. Kate also completely redid the tennis court at Anmer Hall, but now she’s based (during the week) in Windsor, at Adelaide Cottage, and it sounds reasonable that she would seek out something tennis-ish for fun. God knows, she has to fill her days with something other than work. Same for William. I imagine William is involved in so many recreational sports these days and we barely ever hear about it. I can’t wait to find out who was into padel ball first, meaning who Kate and William are copying.
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- Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, (R) plays tennis as she joins a session with a group during a visit the Coach Core Essex apprenticeship scheme at Basildon Sporting Village in Basildon, southeast England, on October 30, 2018. – The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Coach Core Essex to meet new apprentices, hear from graduates, and learn how the scheme in Essex is engaging a diverse local community with sport. The Duke and Duchess met with new Coach Core apprentices and joined in with their coaching sessions, including tennis and indoor athletics.
My biggest takeaway from this is: they don’t even have other hetero couples in their friend group? Was it two of Will’s friends and Kate was the fourth? Girl, learn how to be a good friend – you are going to need some ride or die’s someday.
Thought exactly the same thing!
The real story here is pickle ball. The pickle ballers wanted to convert our neighbor tennis courts into pickle ball courts and it started World War III. Half the neighborhood isn’t speaking to the other half.
That is what stood out to me too- Kate always has to position herself to be the only woman, the pick-me girl in a group of men. What a lonely way to live.
Fancy Pants, this is what I have said many times. Before Harry Met Meghan, Katie was very tight with both brothers. They seemed to go everywhere together, they were frequently photographed together, usually laughing. The tabloids made a lot of how close the three of them were. And then, along comes Meghan. She broke up Kate’s happy threesome. The little group where she was always the centre of attention. I still believe that Kate got so pissed off that she was the one who started being nasty to Meghan and not the other way around. .
As for this game, I have never heard of it I wonder if they play it in Australia and I just haven’t heard about it I’ll just have to ask her. It looks like fun.
Spare revealed that Harry wasn’t close with Will and Kate. They never hung out unless it was an official engagement. Since Kate knows where all the cameras are she really played it up when she was with the brothers.
It wasn’t when Meghan entered the scene, there was no close relationship with the three.
Kate got all flirty with harry in front of the cameras. She did not like when Meghan came along. Kate made things unpleasant for meghan.
@Annakist: You need to read Harry’s book. He says he was never close to William and Kate and they never hung out together. Meghan didn’t break up the threesome because it never existed only on engagements which Harry didn’t always enjoy.
Earlier on, when William first started dating kate, Harry seemed to have some social life with them. They recommended he wear the nazi uniforms and they were all at the party.
William and Harry used to socialise at highgrove club H and local pubs together. They both ended up being friends with Guy Pelly. Chelsey ended up being best friends with Melissa Percy who was girlfriend then wife to Tom van straubenzee, Williams best friend, because they would hang out together when their boyfriends were hanging out together. (Which means Harry William and Tom were all socialising together).
Katie Nichols the journalist socialised with them for a while which meant going to clubs with William and Harry. Sometimes Beatrice and eugenie were there, sometimes pippa.
But yes, later on William and Kate never once invited Harry around to their Kp apartment.
Kate probably thinks she’s William’s best friend. I don’t think she trusts a single person outside her family; you never ever hear of her meeting friends for lunch, for example. If she does have friends, she probably gets them to visit her so she can control what goes on.
True! And there are a load of possible friends at the kids schools! The large component of my current friends are fabulous people I met through my kids. Commiserating at the playground, at the edges of birthday parties, and so on. People I’ve bonded with while bitching about the mosquitoes while our kids played soccer are among my most preciously held humans.
I don’t think she even hangs out with her family much anymore. You never see her with Pippa. She was always with Kate during her dating years but now it’s nothing. And nothing with her being an Aunt to Pippa’s kids or the cousins hanging out. It’s odd.
I think she is his best friend. Not in a particularly healthy way, or that they even like each other all that much, but more like partners in crime.
She prides herself on being both fat-free and friend free.
I bet it was Peg who started. Padel seems like a sport he can add to his sport of pegging.
I agree. She is emotionally immature. She can’t have women around because she needs to be the centre of attention.
Kate probably prefers Padel because women can play against men unlike tennis where she wouldn’t stand a chance. Hence it’s ok to have 3 men and 1 woman.
William probably likes it because it’s easier than tennis, and people can have fun in the first hour. Unlike tennis where it takes a lot of practise to become good, before it’s fun.
William and Kate used to play tennis together (in the waiting years). Someone who saw them said they were surprised Kate was bad at it. He expected her to be good but she was a bit stiff. They said she was better than William though, he was very wooden
Exactly this, Kate will always view ANY woman under the age of 50 as a rival, everything must be about HER and her wants and needs, but I would also ask how do they find time to play, after all, between him ending homelessness, saving africa, saving the planet and wanting to spend all this extra time in Wales, Scotland cornwall oh and not to mention peace in the middle east, then we have keens early yars, her visits) flying visits) to mum and baby charities and talking about how she is still listening and learning, I mean, do they both have superman capes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m glad they have the time, opportunity, money, and luxury to fanny about on a court during a heatwave, energy and food crisis, and prove they’re oh so relatable to the common man. They’re real winners!
Huh. This article is interesting. Emphasizes that they were playing on different teams, with Kate playing with another man, and leaving the kids alone for at least 90 minutes to go play.
None of those things are big deals on their own, obviously. I have left my kids for longer than that to socialize or whatever. But……it feels pointed here. They can leave the kids to go to their fancy tennis club but not to work. Kate playing with another man – why aren’t she and William on the same team? Again not significant at all for most couples, but here………it’s interesting.
Given all the speculation on here about their marriage, living situation, etc I find it more interesting they are playing in the same foursome. It really doesn’t matter if you’re on the same team. They purposely booked recreational time together.
Same. But I also wonder if this is fiction given the source. A random seeing them and reporting it to the paper?
Harry said that W&K changed the seating arrangements at their table at Meghan and Harry’s wedding. W&K are a couple that clearly like to be separately together.
Yeah, I’m genuinely not sure I believe this. Or if it is true, it was true maybe 2-3 years ago. Or maybe even a year ago. As far as being on opposite teams, it seems like part of their competition persona, and I can believe they do like to play against each other on opposite teams. The only time they seem to engage in teamwork is when they’re working against the Sussexes or C&C. But I just don’t see this as something that happened very recently. If they can barely look at each other in public, how do they regularly hang out paddling? Like maybe this happened once. As far as Kate being referenced with other men, it is weird. But I wonder if it’s just her wanting to seems desirable, depending on if she leaked this story or not. As in look at these other men who like to spend time with her. If that’s the case, it could easily backfire.
You know, I’ve been regularly surprised. In “Spare,” Harry mentioned that they watch “Suits” religiously, which really shook me to my gourd (not truly) because they hang out long enough to watch syndicated shows together. Clearly they’re not as miserable as Charles and Diana were. I feel Keen was able to somehow negotiate “quality time” into her royal marriage contract, which apparently includes lunches, shows and padel tennis.
Harry is writing about them in 2015 and 2016 and the rose affair was not known to Kate until 2018. The distance between them happened around then and got worse in early 2021.
Let’s not forget that harry also cut many pages from the book and I’m sure the issue of their crumbling marriage being hidden in exchange for attacking H and M was something that came up in the first draft.
Prior to that shift in 2021, William was not icing kate out in public in the obvious way he does now.
There is no way William is spending time with Kate alone at this point. And the few times he touches her back is not a sign that William is in love with his wife, despite what the derangers desperately wish for.
Note the article says Prince William, 40, and Kate, 41….William turned 41 back in June. Maybe this didn’t happen as recently as they’re trying to make it seem.
@ swirlmamad, it’s apparently an older event as you have cracked the code with their ages quoted!!
I guess the Keen Wales keep spare articles, like this, purely to counter the actual truth of the state of their marriage. Imagine that!! Such deception and manipulation.
I think it’s made up. Kate likely went and not William. There is someone who lives nearby KP and posted that William took the helicopter everyday this week. Of course many tried to pretend it wasn’t him, but the guy said he’s lived in the area for about 10 years and sees the helicopter land in the garden.
There is no way this pickle ball story is true. William is not associating with Kate at all unless the kids are there. And even then I bet it isn’t often.
This reads like a Kate/Carole fake leak to cover up William living at KP and taking helicopter flights daily. The ‘witness’ here is Carol(E).
I’m so confused. I had to look up the difference between Paddle Tennis, Padel, and Pickleball. Apparently they all use different paddles, different balls, different sized courts, and different scoring.
It seems making a simplified and less physically taxing version of tennis is an idea many different people have had! It’s pickle ball where I am. My knees are bad enough that I enjoyed it when I tried it, but I’m not taking it up.
The issue, at least with pickleball
Accidentally posted, edit wasn’t working.
The issue, at least with pickleball, is that with the game made easier, the difference between winning and losing becomes how vicious you want to be. So a fun game for exercise between friends is great, but it can also become a way for mean girl Karens to be nasty and competitive while everyone else is there for a social game. Or maybe that’s just my town.
Padel uses the same scoring as tennis. But it’s a lot easier to play, with a solid racket. People who’ve never played can have fun in the first hour. Unlike tennis where you need to have lessons for months before you can have a fun game. People of different genders, size, ages, call all play together. There are longer rallies so it’s more fun.
Yup. I had troubling finding tennis partners for doubles, but pickle ball is something anyone can pick up. It also requires a lot less running, so it’s popular among my MIL’s senior community.
It’s good that they’re active and doing things together outside of public appearances. Basically a wealthy, long-time married couple at the country club.
Lol
Nope.
If this was a coule who needed social assistance, I guarantee the reaction would be different.
It would be all “why aren’t they working? They have time to play tennis but not work? Living off the public while they do fun activities as a couple?”
It’s not different because they are “royalty”. In fact, it’s much much worse. They take money from people & do nothing. They steal & colonize & abuse their family & staff.
Yet we get comments like this above, how nice it is they do things together.
I think it’s nice when anybody does enjoyable things with somebody else – doesn’t matter what their status. I’m not going to start out my Sunday ranting and raving over people who have no effect on me just because they decided to play a game.
The monarchy is the system in the UK and W&K are part of that. Until the people of the UK decide they don’t want a monarchy anymore, they’ll have to put up with the RF and their obscene amount of wealth.
Truly don’t give a crap about what they do off hours but this is propaganda to pretend that William is not repulsed by his wife despite video evidence earlier this week.
Maybe I read this site too much. But I have a hard time imagining them doing anything together.
It’s hard to know because they’re so scrutinized. Most anytime anyone sees them it’s some kind of public event. But I can imagine them having some settled, married kind of time together – commenting on the kids, or their schedules, or an upcoming holiday, or how horrible are Harry and Meghan. I can’t see them working on any sort of plans together or having any intellectual conversations.
They don’t. They lead separate lives.
This story was leaked to distract from Willy’s appalling behaviour the other day, at the awards. His blatant disregard for Kate not only as his wife, but as a person. His appalling behaviour towards the other 2 presenters.
He went a step too far & even his most ardent supporters noticed who little they even like each other.
Hence, the latest “they have so much in common!” Story.
I agree, while there are some believable details (no other women, fighting every point against each other), this shouts strategic leak to divert attention. When else do we hear about them being ‘spotted’ by commoners but when they want to get a story out?
@kokiri — which recent awards and what did W do? I’m out of the loop!
@mrs smith
This is the link on this site, Twitter has actual video of his behaviour.
Trophy for winning some polo match = awards to me, sorry for any confusion.
https://www.celebitchy.com/824925/princess_kate_wore_a_sister-wife_beulah_london_dress_to_williams_polo_match/
A neighbor of KP posted on Twitter a pic of Wills helicopter landing, I think it was after the polo match. The poster said it lands there daily. This fiction, with no names other than Will and Kate and no pics, was created after the awkward polo match kiss on the cheek, trying to make them appear like they are not separated.
The most unbelievable part of this story is the fact that those two were hanging out in the first place. I find it really hard to believe that Will and Kate spend any private time time together, especially without the kids. This story does not seem real.
Good to know that the massive, expensively updated apartment at KP is at least getting used. Also good to know that the Earthshot Prince — with his frequent helicopter trips — is continuing his efforts to bring attention to environmental concerns.
I truly cannot imagine what the monarchy will look like with Wills in charge.
Yep. A man who can’t stand even an air cheek kiss from his wife isn’t playing couples sports, even on opposite teams. No pictures either, because it didn’t happen. It’s fanfiction from the Rota to conceal a marriage being held together by weak thread.
The polo video is a bit too obvious. William cannot stand being near kate and he would not do it unless he had to.
If the kids were there I might believe it, but they aren’t and we have heard zero stories of them doing anything without the kids in years.
Is this spin that they spend time together . I wonder about the timing of this.
That Tweet about Wills alleged helicopter rides gained traction too
That tweet is hilarious. All the comments saying but William lives in Windsor to defend the fact that his helicopter goes in and out of KP every day.
The comments to that tweet insisting that lots of royals are traveling in and out of KP everyday via helicopter. Um, like, who? There are no royals left anymore, which is the end result of CRex’s bad management of the Firm. This suspiciously timed article from The Sun is a plant to make it seem like the Wails are friendlier behind the scenes than they are in public.
Which royals would even be living at KP? I thought most were gone from there, except for W&K.
Princess Blackamoor broach, perhaps lives there still? As if she’s got helicopter access.
Someone rightly pointed out that Harry was not given access to the helicopter, so it’s unlikely anyone but William could ever use it and certainly not every day. After all let’s not forget that they changed the system for William and Kate to classify their helicopter travel in an easier way to hide why they are using it. Up until 2017 it was only permitted for engagements and then the queen changed it so they can use it all the time.
@ Nic919, the QEII was probably faced with Willy using his usual temper tantrum tactic to force QEII in granting his constant use. But didn’t QEII earlier express caution of Willy constantly using the helicopter needlessly for its potential of crashing??
Though it doesn’t matter now as she is gone and Billy the Basher does as he pleases!
The man said it always lands in Williams garden.
I’m not surprised he’s living in London (though I’d thought it more likely he was living at Anmer) but I’m more curious where he’s going to every day.
Wait, did Willy finally obtain his pilots license?? IIRC, he still must have a licensed pilot to fly with him, right?? This utterly disgusting and flagrant example of hypocrisy when he is supposedly a proponent of climate change. 🙄🙄🙄
Some one on Twitter posted a picture of Willian in his helicopter returning to Kensington Palace, saying he returns every evening.
Now that is something I believe.
I’ve always felt that was the arrangement, William would have Kensington Palace as “his place” and Kate and the kids would be at Windsor. And this tennis story sounds like the “dinner at the pub story”. Pics or it didn’t happen, lol.
Oh, that. Yes, that’s when he takes part in one of his other hobbies. He tends to a certain Rosegarden, and then he does a spot of horizontal folk dancing.
So now it’s being reported that they enjoy each other’s company? Yeah right.
There’s real trouble in Paradise.
This article rings false to me. I don’t believe they’re doing anything together except turning up at the occasional royal event and signing up George to Eton.
Isn’t William 41? Why does the article say 40. Was that story written up months ago for a different diverse of the Waleses less than perfect public persona and was at the time superseded by another one that better fit the moment? IMO this just more tabloid propaganda to spin a false public persona for the Wales. I wonder which demographic the propaganda spin targets.
My summary of the story/article: Kate played paddle ball with three men – she partnered with one against her husband.
I wonder which couple won that day. 🧐 🤷♀️
Oops ….. should say *diversion not diverse
I thought the same thing: Will is 41 now. How can they not get these basic facts right? Are they just trying to make Will seem younger? Was this something they had written earlier as a distraction story to make the Waleses seem closer?
@Rapunzel, exactly that. I think it’s a story they wrote earlier in the year to be used as a distraction, and never got around to using it. Those two don’t enjoy each other’s company, and in fact despise being together and only meet for official engagements.
This first reminded me of the cute Invictus Games video of Harry and Meghan playfully playing table tennis with each other. Their interactions are always so genuine and sweet. Then I thought how unsurprising that Kate is the only female in what would normally be a couples match and then she’s not even on the same team as her husband. It seems to be the usual fluff piece by the BM to distract from something else. The extended video of Will running away from Kate at the polo match and her changed facial expression was so bad that they needed to redirect people’s attention. I’m not on Twitter so had no idea about the post about the nightly helicopter rides returning Will home, including after the polo match debacle. These fluff pieces are such obvious distractions that I don’t know how anyone is gullible enough to believe that this is a happy marriage.
This was totally staged. William isn’t in any of the pictures.
In my area, paddleball is taking over everywhere.
Zero interest in it myself.
Kate has always been sporty, hasn’t she? I thought that was her thing.
William should get out and get some exercise, burn off his anger.
I wish any Celeb right now would do something goofy or interesting just to knock all the royals and Kardashians off the front pages. Boring.
Not buying it. This is just an attempt to attach the Wails to a trendy sport and cover for the distance between them.
Apparently, there are no pictures of this game. We have one person saying they saw them. That’s it. I’m not buying it, because it’s obvious that the two of them couldn’t play together–even on opposite teams.
I wonder who planted this? Was this Ma Mids? Someone is really working to try to make this marriage more than a sham.
Exactly!!!! Especially when it comes to the royals, if there are no pictures, I don’t believe it. The tabloid rags get lazy sometimes (or too stingy to pay for photos) and think a headline and quote from a “source” or “friend” will suffice. Try again.
Why would anyone plant any stories?
No one actually cares if W and K are living separately.
All any of the royals do is ribbon cutting, or giving themselves big pompous parades on the tax payers dime.
Now, if there are pictures of William shirtless with a blonde hanging off him, both smiling like drunken monkeys…well, THAT I am interested in. LOL
HeyKey, as you pointed out the royals provides no real value to society. How then do they retain support? Its through PR. W&K ‘s PR has been that of a loving couple and devoted parents. They would not want this narrative destroyed unless they felt like they had an equally compelling one to replace it for their royalists supporters.
This story was planted to try and counteract the polo video which shows William literally running away from kate after the trophy presentation and after a very awkward “air kiss” greeting that acquaintances in Europe do, not spouses.
And why did the false story about Meghan making kate cry when it was the opposite get planted? Again, kate needed to reduce Meghan’s popularity and this was a way to do it.
My father was a big paddle tennis player. I don’t know if “padel” tennis is the same, but it sounds like it is. This was in the 70s and 80s. The sport has been around for a long time, but I guess it is just now picking up steam?
Anyway, interesting about Williams’ helicopter landing at KP every morning. I wonder where it comes from…..
In that first picture, Kate really looks like she’s feeling herself. A LOT of arrogance there!
Maybe he likes a good paddle almost as well as a pegging…
And off topic… didn’t kate rip out a 1 plus million tennis court to move it over just 36 FT at Anmer… yea i almost forgot about that.
What is padel tennis? Is that the same as paddle tennis which is been around since the 60s? Paddle tennis was played with a hard perforated paddle and a somewhat dead tennis ball. Similar but not the same as Pickleball. The courts used to be about a third the size of a tennis court.
Erin, I just checked. Although similar, they are different. Paddle tennis came out about in 1915 in the US. Padel tennis came out about 1969 in Mexico. I had never heard of paddle tennis before, but it’s been around for over a century.