People are still talking about the Princess of Wales’s rugby event on Wednesday. Or should I say, her Shaping Us/men’s mental health/Early Years/rugby event. Let’s be real, the entire purpose of the event was to showcase Kate wearing a ponytail and playing pretend-rugby for the photographers. And because Kate’s children have to be attached to every event she does, wouldn’t you know that all three of her kids play rugby, and Charlotte is the best rugby player of all.
Like royal mother, like royal daughter! Kate Middleton showed off some serious rugby skills on Wednesday at the Maidenhead Rugby Club — the results of regular backyard rugby sessions with her three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
“She regularly plays rugby in the back garden with the children — she plays all sports with them,” says Nigel Gillingham, who is President of the governing body of the sport in England, the Rugby Football Union. And 8-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte inherited more than athleticism from her mom.
“Apparently Charlotte is very much in her mold — very competitive as well,” Gillingham adds.
Princess Kate, who supports England as patron of the Rugby Football League and the Rugby Football Union, previously revealed that Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte are both playing rugby, noting that her eldest child is tall so “he has the physique.”
And while Prince William has also described his daughter as a “budding star” in soccer, Princess Charlotte revealed her favorite sport is actually gymnastics while attending the Commonwealth Games with her parents last summer.
“She really, really loved seeing the swimming, but she’s interested in the gymnastics, and while they’re trying lots of different sports at home, I understand, when I asked her about sport she answered very easily and said, ‘It’s gymnastics that I like,’ ” said Tim Lawler, the chief executive of Sports Aid, according to Hello! magazine.
Kate added, “Charlotte spends most of her time upside-down, doing handstands and cartwheels,” according to the Daily Mail.
The thing is, the one thing we’ve always known about Kate is that she’s terribly keen on tennis, yet we rarely get an update on the kids’ tennis lessons. I’m assuming they have tennis lessons? It seems like Charlotte would be more likely to show interest in sports like gymnastics, swimming and tennis, as opposed to rugby, football, etc. Of course, if Kate mentioned that Charlotte and Louis were into tennis, then there might be expectations that Charlotte and Louis come to Wimbledon and not just George. Anyway, I totally believe Charlotte is sporty, I just don’t buy that Kate is out in the backyard playing rugby with them. I think Kate just feels the need to mention that her kids are so excited about fill-in-the-blank event, whatever Kate or William is doing at the time.
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- BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge attend the Sandwell Aquatics Centre during the 2022 Commonwealth Games on August 02, 2022 in Birmingham, England.,Image: 711466404, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge attend the Sandwell Aquatics Centre during the 2022 Commonwealth Games on August 02, 2022 in Birmingham, England.,Image: 711466406, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the Sandwell Aquatics Centre during the 2022 Commonwealth Games on August 02, 2022 in Birmingham, England.,Image: 711466408, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the Sandwell Aquatics Centre during the 2022 Commonwealth Games on August 02, 2022 in Birmingham, England.,Image: 711466411, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge during a visit to SportsAid House at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on August 02, 2022 in Birmingham, England. The Duchess became the Patron of SportsAid in 2013, Team England Futures programme is a partnership between SportsAid, Sport England and Commonwealth Games England which will see around 1,000 talented young athletes and aspiring support staff given the opportunity to attend the Games and take a first-hand look behind-the-scenes.,Image: 711487791, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- London, United Kingdom -18/09/2022. Prince George and his sister Charlotte are seen in a car with their Mother Kate the Princess of Wales and the Queen Consort as it follows the cortčge of the late Queen Elizabeth the II is pulled past the Houses of Parliament after her funeral at Westminster Abbey, Westminster.,Image: 724154458, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Joshua Bratt / Avalon
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis leave St George’s Chapel after the Easter Sunday Service at Windsor.,Image: 768360876, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: David Dyson / Avalon
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- Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge with their daughter Princess Charlotte of Cambridge at Sandwell Aquatics Centre on day five of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Featuring: Prince William, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte Where: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom When: 02 Aug 2022 Credit: Chris Jackson/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Royals head to Easter Mattins Service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom When: 09 Apr 2023 Credit: Yui Mok/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Catherine, The Princess of Wales taking part in rugby drills during her visit to meet local and national male rugby players at Maidenhead Rugby Club, in Berkshire, where she also discussed the Shaping Us campaign, hear about their childhood experiences and speak about the role that community settings can play in supporting children and parents. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: Maidenhead, United Kingdom When: 07 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Catherine, The Princess of Wales taking part in rugby drills during her visit to meet local and national male rugby players at Maidenhead Rugby Club, in Berkshire, where she also discussed the Shaping Us campaign, hear about their childhood experiences and speak about the role that community settings can play in supporting children and parents. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: Maidenhead, United Kingdom When: 07 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Catherine, Princess Of Wales during her visit to meet local and national male rugby players at Maidenhead Rugby Club, in Berkshire, where she also discussed the Shaping Us campaign, hear about their childhood experiences and speak about the role that community settings can play in supporting children and parents. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: Maidenhead, United Kingdom When: 07 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
The story line of charlotte’s life is already being written, rather sad.
I was about to say this. It’s quite sad to see these children life roles already being written like this.
George: the responsible heir and an image of his father
Charlotte: her mothers perfect mini me
Louis: the “cheeky”, funny, joker. And when he gets older he’ll probably get the party/playboy prince label.
I see Charlotte’s role similar to Anne, the Princess Royal.
And , yet, Charlotte seems like the leader of the pack.
Definitely. At many events, George seems to rely on her for guidance as to what to do when. Louis seems to look up to her too. She takes after great aunt Anne more than her lazy mother
@FHmom: they’ll just claim she got that from keen.
Haven’t they learned anything? Why are they pushing Charlotte out for positive press? Leave this child in peace.
Agreed! Harry wrote in Spare how hurtful this childhood role-scaping was.
Considering the toxic dynamics ongoing around those three children, I really do wish their parents had made them off limits. This is not good for them in the long term. It’s going to a repeat of Harry’s trauma.
They are all utterly exhausting.
Very sad the media is already working out how to monetise them:
George shy and withdrawn
Charlotte feisty and confident….a future Princess Anne, they will soon be saying Charlotte would be a better monarch than George. Repeating the the Charles vs Anne nonsense the media love.
Louis cheeky and boisterous. They will turn him into the fun loving clubbing boy.
As soon as Meghan came on the scene the media set about trying to turn her into the 21st century version of wicked Wallis Simpson.
I love Charlotte, and only her of the whole caboodle. She’s feisty and I love that in girls.
Tennis, piano, shooting and maybe sailing are probably part of their basic non-peasant rich kid education, they dont really have a say. For the rest, they may have an opinion.
Riding. Don’t forget riding.
I hope the kids at least enjoy most of it.
Definitely! Totally missed that one.
Charlotte goes to co-ed UK schools and the traditional primary school sports all students play during the school day are football autumn term, rugby winter term and cricket summer term. So this doesn’t surprise me. I do not see Kate playing those sports in the back garden with them though…
Kate looks like my old elementary gym teacher.
Charlotte should be able to do whatever she wants outside of her mother’s shadow, no comparisons necessary. Stop feeding this narcissist’s ego by making her kids an extension of her. That is going to do so much damage to them.
I also find these a lot of sports the kids are supposedly interested in. I get trying to introduce your child to various sports and keeping them active but they just happen to like every. single. sport their parents have some sort of a connection to? Funny.
They really need to stop dragging their kids into their patronages. And ascribing sportiness and competitiveness to an eight year old is just wrong.
It’s a little ridiculous at this point. Do I think Charlotte is sporty? Yes. Do I think she’s obsessed with every sport that Kate happens to be visiting for “work”? No.
I don’t recall Charles and Diana going on about William and Harry being interested in whatever sport they happened to attend.
She just says that because she doesn’t raise the kids. She has no idea about what they do and has zero real story about them so she repeats over and over that they love whatever is the sport of the day. Pathetic.
Yawn
Yawn?
Good god those children need to run for the hills or better still the airport and get a one way ticket to Montecito and their uncle Harry. They are now being cast in their future rolls By their mother and the media! Before long they are going to start playing one of against the other as to who is better than who, and Louis will be cast as their Harry. Run kids run and don’t look back
I’ve never been more grateful that Archie and Lili are growing outside of the royal bubble and out of the public eye because otherwise they would get that role. Their futures would have been horrible.
@kim.p: football i can see because literally everyone plays football. Even the ones that suck at it. Rugby not so much. I don’t think any of the 3 kids have a real interest in rugby and I don’t think kate does either.
Kate did not look too familiar with playing rugby in those photos. William has also been photographed pretending to play rugby and looking uncoordinated. She’s just pretending the kids play rugby because that’s the patronage she’s attending that day.
Say what you like about Will @nic19 but he definitely knows how to play rugby and has played since he was about 7.
All the riches yet cannot find a stylist who can blend a wiglet. You can actually see the line… sigh.
either someone had her fillers updated or that is a heck of a vanity photoshopping job on that one image
Charlotte being made in her mothers mold is not the compliment they think it is. Can’t is lazy and mean. I hope for better for Charlotte but I do hope she enjoys sports. Hopefully she will come out of this family ok.
Let them talk. As long as they keep Prince Archie, princess Lili and Queen Meghan’s names out of their mouths….
Come through!
Yup who cares at this point. As long as they leave the Sussex family alone then whatever. Not my business or problem.
The kids are always interested in whatever event they are at, so I don’t know how much I believe this. It’s funny that Charlotte was like no I like gymnastics, and Kate had to immediately bolster it up with some anecdote that she clearly hadn’t thought to say before that moment. It’s clear that she uses them as ways to make small talk because she doesn’t really know how to connect with people on that level. That said I hope that whatever sports they do enjoy, and events that they do like attending that they are allowed and aren’t restricted to whether or not they are ” appropriate “.
Nah, she doesn’t know what they do simple as that. She has zero problem connecting with men. The shy princess is an invention, this is middlebum.
Charlotte seems to rebel a bit by saying what she cares truly about.
Lmao I still find it way too hilarious how after seeing Meghan in that amazing Valentino suit we just KNEW k would pull out her white pantsuit for the commonwealth games because it’s a sporting event.
No originality at all
Bill and Cathy are so very dull and boring and lacking charisma, their children are getting sucked into the vacuum they create. The children are being commodified. Poor charlotte.
I hope Charlotte one day reads “Spare” and gets the hell out of that gilded cage she and her siblings are in. In the meantime they need to let the child be.
Wish the kids well. Will leave it at that. Hope they have the space and the grace to grow into whatever they want to be.
All the best to Charlotte and Louis. The way I see it they’re going to be destroyed by the royal system and the press.
Why not George too? He seems a shy kid.
Oh what a terrible mother wanting her kids involved in events she attends so that she can be with them instead of being like QE who, once she became queen, ignored her children because of “duty”. And we all know how that turned out.
Ignore them for duty or use them for duty? Either way the kids lose.
It’s just disingenuous at this point. She name drops her own kids to make her “relatable.” When she becomes patron of the Great Knitting Club of Nottingham or whatever, just watch, George will become a keen knitter and fan of multicolored yarn.
Indeed, this is Kate ” I had 4 nannies for 3 children” Middlebum trying to be relatable as if that would work
“George is enrolled in weaving class so he can make his own yarn from wool that comes from the royal sheep at Fiddlesticks Castle.”
-Kate or William when George’s attempt to knit a potholder is revealed.
I really hope all of those kids find their own way in life.
This labeling of the kids is lousy.
Kids need to find their own interests as they grow.
It would be surprising if any of the royal kids turned out to be bookish.
The BRF is not known for great intelligence despite their options of the best educations available.
Princess Anne has always seemed more suited to be Monarch vs. Charles in temperament and her willingness to follow the “duty” role. Interesting that she insisted her children hold no titles or be in the line of succession. At the time of their birth, that was pretty forward thinking.
Anne’s kids are in the line of succession. They haven’t been removed, they just are very far down it because of the male primacy of the rules of succession, only changed prior to George being born.
She has however not name dropped her children at every engagement because she actually reads the briefs.
Anne didn’t insist on anything. It was her husband, Mark Phillips, who turned down a title. From Wikipedia: “As was customary for untitled men marrying into the royal family, Phillips was offered an earldom, which he declined; consequently their children were born without titles.” And as @Nic919 notes, Anne’s children are still in the line of succession.
Everyone needs to leave these kids alone , they have no idea who they are as people and should be allowed to figure it out without people who don’t even know them or their thirsty parents putting them into boxes. Kate is in a panic, Camilla/Charles are throwing her parents, particularly her Mother under the bus. I’m sure it’s all punishment for her and Willard attempting to flex their muscle. I’d think her husband and BIL could have covered her parents debts without it all going public. I wonder why they won’t…….
I just noticed (from the side to side pictures on the main page) that Charlotte resembles her Uncle Harry.
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emberly, I recently saw a picture of Wails when she was young and immediately thought how very much Charlotte looked like her Mom.
Oh oh, Charlotte’s not following the script – she prefers gymnastics! Can’t wait for the day when we see Kate trying to do a back flip.
Kate was probably seething inside when Charlotte said “gymnastics” and not one of her patronages, lol.
@ Eurydice
I hope it will occur in public…….and we see her wiglet flying across the room. LOL
Maybe she’ll run away and join a real Circus 🎪
Please stop picking on these kids.
Are you referring to the posters here or the royal reporters? I think I need to change my username, there is at least one other “Mary” that over the last year or so occasionally posts things with which I disagree (she sounds like a deranger)..
the children should not be placed in the limelight
Nothing wrong with being competitive in sports. Nothing wrong with encouraging a daughter to be competitive at sports. But if you’re an insecure woman who competes to be queen bee and will try to destroy anyone who gets in your way, then you’re a dangerous example to your daughter.
That was my mother. I’m in my forties and still in therapy. Unraveling the damage is like peeling an onion. One layer peels back revealing another one.
Why are they doing public releases for a 7 or 8 year old girl? Insane! They are just paving the way for a very intrusive role for the press in their little girl’s life. Heinous!
And notice they are doing it for the Spare and not the Heir. They are carefully curating George’s image and hobbies and restricting how much they release on him. I mean, if they came out with a story on how he is so great at rugby and then gets his ass whupped in school because he was really no good in rugby he will be teased for the rest of his school life.
Sorry, I mean press releases.
Is there a reason she’s wearing the rose like a Scarlet Letter? Is that a coincidental logo placement like is that the logo of the things she’s doing? We know she’s a theme dresser. I know nothing about the sport obviously
That’s the emblem for England Rugby, all the men’s and women’s jerseys will have that logo. I find it most interesting that she seems to have a custom shirt with no sponsors on it – that it certainly not fan wear and I don’t even think players would have a logo-free kit.
Catherine keeps trying to make herself relatable because she is a mother too. It falls flat with me because I know how much help Catherine has, that 99% of women don’t have and the financial support.
Also, I know how lazy Catherine was prior to her marriage. So as a young woman in my twenties in the oughts, I couldn’t relate to her. I thought it must be nice to have parents who can financially support you all of the way through your single years, until your father-in-law picks up the baton. Especially with a useless degree for making the kind of money Catherine spent in her twenties.
Lily – I know what you mean about “it must be nice” when Kate was in her 20s and not working. Who wouldn’t love to take a decade long vacation?
The thing is though, it’s so abnormal, maybe for all but the Uber Uber rich. I went to college with some really wealthy people from LA and Manhattan (meaning they were wealthy for Manhattan, you know?) and they all got jobs after college. Now some had the jobs you only get if your dad is the CEO of Wonderland inc (making that up obviously lol) – but they all had jobs. They were producers, investors, very high end real estate agents, consultants, CEOs of startups that got funding from Daddy, entertainment agents.
Jobs they got as a direct result of their privilege, yes. Jobs that gave them perks and flexibility, yes.
But jobs. No one just didn’t work for a decade, waiting for a ring.
Beatrice and Eugenie, actual princesses got jobs like that but Kate could not be bothered. And that sad jigsaw job where she tells the boss she has to be available for her famous boyfriend is just the most pathetic thing ever done. It set the tone of who she is now and she’s not changing unless there is some seismic event forcing her too.
If she makes it to be consort she will be the most useless one in modern history.
Poor kids. They have their parents putting so many words in their mouths. Good for Charlotte for saying gymnastics.
I had a parent who put words in my mouth mostly to embiggen herself. I feel like my extended family didn’t know me growing up.
So now Kate is some kind of super athlete, just like she’s a “top CEO” and “professional level photographer” and “expert pianist” and “early childhood expert” and “mental health expert” and so on. In reality, she seems like a very low-to-middling level of accomplishment (whether it’s photography, music, sports, etc.) but we have to have her shoved down our throats as an expert in everything. It’s nauseating.
The Princess of Pegging is wearing an elastic waistband, I really hope that she makes them fashionable – so comfy.
I think forcing children to do public engagements is basically like being a child star & we know that rarely results
In a mentally healthy adult.
What is all of this for ? Take the money and have a nice life worth your family. Why would anyone want this circus ?
Trash
I can’t at that header photo; they have such short little legs, and any time they’re pictured from the front sitting down and cackling, it just creates the impression of such a pair of clowns.
Prior to meeting William, Khate was a nobody with a social climbing mother. Now she is touted as being a multi talented sporting champion. I feel very sorry for her children, she appears to be highly skilled at manipulation, bending the truth, shopping, spending excessively and being a narcissist. What is she teaching them, she is far from being intelligent, is Charlotte in training to become her “mini me” It does not appear that Charlotte has Khates short legs and long body, so Charlottes sporting capabilities would be different. What if Charlotte simply likes being active and is not interested in annihating anyone who gets in her way. Let the girl be a child and have fun.