Pippa Middleton has revealed her schoolgirl crush on her “undeniably fanciable” hockey coach in her latest magazine column entitled ‘Confessions of a sporty schoolgirl’.
The 29-year-old sister of the Duchess of Cambridge spoke of her youthful passion for her PE teacher, a hockey star who was in his early twenties at the time, while recalling her school days in this week’s issue of Spectator magazine.
“When I close my eyes and think about school sports, I envisage myself on the hockey pitch, stick in hand, a luminous gumshield locked on to my chops and a bandana across my forehead. (Bandanas were all the rage back then),” Pippa writes.
“Boys are watching. I can also hear the booming voice of Mr Markham, our fierce but undeniably fanciable coach, urging us all on.”
Pippa also revealed that long before her bottom became world famous, it was helping her win netball games.
“You spend most of the time playing a complex version of piggy-in-the-middle, except the piggies are a pack of vicious girls,” Pippa wrote. “My petite physique enabled me to nip and tuck my way past the bigger-chested girls.
“Elbows always helped; as did the derriere for defence (my ‘chest’ hadn’t developed back then) and a bit of shoulder-barging here or there.”
Pippa also reminisced about running cross country races with her sister Kate who also attended the prestigious Marlborough College.
“We Middleton girls were always at the starting line — albeit reluctantly — fuelled by Lucozade tablets and bananas.
“Rain was inevitable and we’d get caked in mud from head to toe, in our tiny athletic shorts, white Aertex and all.”
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