It’s Cap’n Kate and her gappy little mate!
TAKING the helm in a yacht race, the Duchess of Cambridge looked like she ruled the waves yesterday.
Kate appeared tanned and shipshape in shorts and a cap and she went headto-head with William in a regatta.
But it was gap-toothed Prince George who stole the show in a captain’s hat as he cheered on his parents in the King’s Cup off the Isle of Wight.
The six-year-old, in a nautical-inspired £5 H&M polo top, was joined by grandparents Carole and Michael Middleton and his little sister, Princess Charlotte, who was later seen cheekily poking her tongue out as her mother tried to encourage her to wave during the medal ceremony.
The group were on board a boat to watch the Duke and Duchess compete along with celebrities including adventurer Bear Grylls and comedian John Bishop on a cloudy but calm day around Cowes. The event was staged a day earlier than planned due to bad weather forecast for today.
George and four-year-old Charlotte, who was dressed in a £128 blue and white striped Ralph Lauren dress, appeared to enjoy watching their parents compete on different teams in two races.
Neither of their yachts won overall. William’s, on behalf of Child Bereavement UK, finished joint third. Kate’s team, which represented the Royal Foundation, came last out of eight. Grylls’s team was the overall winner and was awarded the King’s Cup, a trophy first presented by George V at Cowes’ Royal Yacht Squadron in 1920.
The event gave the couple the chance to renew their sporting rivalry. William trounced his wife in a dragon boat race in Canada in 2011, but Kate got her revenge three years later when she won a sailing event in New Zealand.
Yesterday was not her day, however. She received a ceremonial wooden spoon after coming last.
As the Duchess, 37, shook her head and held up the spoon to the laughing crowd, historian Dan Snow said: ‘This is the first time the Duchess has ever finished last in anything, I can guarantee.
‘So you’d better enjoy it because it will never happen again.’