When Kate Middleton Forgot She Was a Princess

Did you win? Who won? I came second. If there was a fight between you and Harry, who would win? Oh, that's clearly obvious. Me. She is the future queen of England. Perfect hair, perfect manners, perfect smile. At least, that's what the cameras usually show you. But the people who know her best tell a very different story. She refuses to lose. Not at tennis, not at running, not even at a race that was supposed to be just for fun. Her husband is scared to buy her presents. Her kids make her watch cartoons for hours. And when she is around William, the royal mask slips completely. These are the moments Kate Middleton forgot she was a princess. And stay until the end, because the last one is the moment she completely lost it. Let's start with a race. In 2017, William, Kate, and Harry took part in a relay race in London for their mental health charity. Everyone agreed it would be gentle. A friendly little jog for the cameras. Nothing serious, nobody trying too hard, three royals, one running track, and a lot of photographers waiting at the finish line, and one very determined princess at the start. Then the starting gun went off. And a few days later, live on Radio 1, William explained exactly what happened next. We're just going to do like a show run, kind of like just make it look good, but don't go whatever. And then I turn around, I see the glint in my brother's eye and I see the grin that my wife's got. And I'm like, all right, it's on. It's on. And the next thing I know, the gun goes and Harry's already about 30 yards down the track. So who was the most competitive person in that marriage? When William and Kate sat down on Mike Tindall's rugby podcast, Mike already knew the answer. He has been on holiday with them. He has played sports with them. He has watched them argue over the score. He just didn't want to be the one who said it out loud. Where did your... Because I'm not going to say you're really competitive. And the competition does not stop when the kids get involved. Their children's school promised there would be no parents race at sports day. No pressure, no running, no embarrassment in front of the other mums and dads. William and Kate believed them. Then, at the very last minute, the teachers announced a surprise. And they really, really should not have believed them. We were told categorically there was no parents' race. Right. But then they called at the last minute, parents' race. And maybe the competitive side in both of us were like, we have to take part in this. Mike Tindall knows them both very well, so he asked the question everyone wanted to ask. If William and Kate play each other at tennis, how long does the game actually last? Most couples just play for fun. Not these two. An hour? Two hours? Their answer says everything about this marriage. Both of you are super, super competitive, a bit like Monica and Rachel from Friends. I'm really not that competitive. I don't know where this is coming from. Is it like that? Actually, I do think we've actually managed to finish a game. It's the same in rugby, Kate is the patron of English rugby, William is the patron of Welsh rugby, so every time England play Wales, there is a little war going on inside Kensington Palace. When Kate trained with the England team at Twickenham, she even let the players lift her up in the line-out. And when a reporter asked about the big game against Wales, she made it very clear that she wanted the bragging rights at home. We did ask how that was going to go down in the house. Yes. Apparently they're very competitive, that's what she was saying. So she said we needed to make sure we get our heads on for that game, otherwise she wants the bragging rights in the house. But it's not only sport. Romance in the royal household is also a competition. And according to William himself, he is not exactly winning. On a football podcast with Peter Crouch, he admitted what he once bought Kate as a present. Not a diamond, not a holiday, something very, very practical. And not once, not twice, three years in a row. For a spell of buying a certain brand of Mac, and I bought it every year like a coat. And then came the gift that, in his own words, sealed the deal. He chose it himself. He wrapped it himself. He thought it was the most amazing present in the world. He was very, very proud of it. Kate was a lot less impressed. Yeah, I probably can. I think I gave my wife a pair of binoculars once. Binoculars? Why? She's never learned how to do that. What was she thinking then? That was early on in the courtship, that was. Tell you what, I think that sealed the deal. It's like, yeah, but these are really amazing. Look how far you can see. And she's looking at me going, they're binoculars. When William and Kate surprised the Radio 1 presenter live on air, the questions got personal very quickly. Everyone calls her Kate. The newspapers call her Kate. The whole world calls her Kate. But Prince Harry calls her something completely different. So what does she actually want to be called? Her answer was not what anyone expected. I heard a podcast with Harry recently, and he refers to you as William and Kath, and that really confused me. Yeah, I did, I'm not sure, actually. I'm not that familiar with it, I have to say, back in, but I'll answer to most things. Then the presenters asked what the royal couple watch on television at night. Kate admitted they love box sets, just like everyone else, but there is one audience in the palace that is much harder to please than the British public. Two little critics who demand total attention, and Kate is not allowed to look bored for even a second. Her children have their own own favorite celebrities too, and not the ones you would expect. When Mary Berry spent a Christmas with Kate, Kate told her a little secret about Prince Louis. It all started with the cookbooks on the shelf in the royal kitchen, right at a toddler's height. One of Louis' first words was his version of Mary, because right at his height, Mary also found out that the future queen has a very unroyal Christmas habit. Forget the palace chefs. Forget the fancy caterers. When the holidays come around, Kate does the baking herself, late at night, in her own kitchen. And she never knows when to stop. Tell me, I've always been wanting to know, birthdays, who makes the cake? I love making the cake. It's become a bit of a tradition that I sort of stay up until midnight with ridiculous amounts of sort of cake mix and icing. I make far too much, but I love it. On a royal tour of New Zealand, William and Kate were each given a racing yacht and a crew of sailors and told to race each other across Auckland Harbour. William is a former helicopter pilot and a keen sailor. Kate had never raced a yacht like that in her life. William was confident, maybe a little too confident. You can probably guess who won. On a royal tour of Australia, they were taken to a youth music center in Adelaide and put behind a pair of DJ decks. Both of them had a go, and according to everyone in the room, the duchess was the better DJ. Whether it's sailing, rowing, rugby, or music, there is one person William can never quite beat. His wife. She will be queen one day. She will wear the crown, wave from the balcony, and smile for the cameras. But behind the perfect princess is a woman who refuses to lose a race, judges her husband's presents, and secretly stays up until midnight making far too much icing. And our favorite moment of all? It happened at the Royal Variety performance, the night William and Kate made their debut as royal parents. Comedian Michael McIntyre decided the new mum and dad were the perfect target. Every parent knows bedtime is hard, but according to Michael, a royal bedtime must be a little bit different. I love doing bedtime stories, but it must be tough for you, you know, fairy tales. And then the prince and the princess banqueted. with all the kings of all the kingdoms and then kissed on the lawn of the magnificent palace the end and then he acted out the moment every parent in the world knows the baby is finally asleep on your shoulder now you just have to put him down and creep out of the room without waking him up and that is when the princess completely lost it trying to put the baby to sleep oh we've all been there right yeah get him down is he down shh i think he's asleep falls asleep on your shoulder puts him in the bed he's gone he's gone He's gone, creeping out of the room. He's gone, shh, he's gone. Slowly opening the door.