Land yacht laughter

In another occasion when she was pitted against her husband, the then Duchess of Cambridge came up smiling when she won not one, but two land-yachting races when they held an engagement in the town of St Andrews in Scotland where they met in 2001.

Rawiri Geddes, a member of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron youth training programme, was one of the crew members on the duchess' boat and praised her skills.

He said: "She was good, she was really good - she took charge and won both races."