What Did Kate Middleton and Roger Federer Discuss During Their Chat at Wimbledon?
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The world-famous tennis tournament, Wimbledon, has been a much-anticipated event over the past two weeks. Today, the tournament will come to an end with the men's final and one royal who will be taking a huge interest in proceedings on Centre Court will be the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton.
Kate is known to be a huge tennis fan and has already visited this year's championships twice. On her first visit last week, she spent time with eight-time Wimbledon champion and pal Roger Federer, with the pair sat next to each other on Centre Court's royal box. As they settled down and watched the matches, Kate and Roger were spotted deep in conversation in between games, with the princess making some big hand gestures as they chatted.
This prompted fans to wonder exactly what they may have been discussing so intently. And a professional lip reader has decoded one of their conversations, which was shown during BBC's coverage of the tournament. According to the lip reader, Kate and Roger were having an animated chat about one of Wimbledon's most talked-about rules - the rule on players having to wear white.
At the start of the exchange, the lip reader says Kate appears to talk to Roger about a player's attire saying: "But I don’t know if that was like bespoke or if that was off the shelf or a bespoke design.." Roger is then thought to have replied by saying: "The problem with here [gesturing to the court in front of him] is that all the players might have something similar....yeah...so. "Also you can see when they play each other, they are basically wearing the same outfit, you know what I mean."
This prompts Kate to say: "The same outfit", before adding: "I mean it is hard when you’re all wearing white, it’s hard to identify each individual person." The lip reader believes Roger agreed by saying: "That’s why I was hoping they would bring back a little bit more colour, you know just a few more details, something exciting and just to add (pauses and gestures with hands) a bit more personality...yeah."
Kate and Roger's meeting at Wimbledon was the first time they had been seen together since appearing in a warm-up promo video for the championships highlighting the work of ball boys and girls. During the video, Kate, 41, beat the 20-time Grand Slam winner when they had a quick game at Wimbledon. And Swiss ace Roger was so impressed he couldn't help gasping, 'Amazing!' as the royal served up her winning shot.
It is believed Roger and wife Mirka are friends of the Middletons with them attending Kate's sister Pippa's wedding in 2017. Kate once also revealed how the tennis star was also her mum Carole's heartthrob.
So, what did Kate Middleton and Roger Federer discuss during their chat at Wimbledon? It seems the pair were debating the rule on players having to wear white and how it can be difficult to identify each individual person when they are all wearing the same outfit. It is clear that the pair have a strong friendship and it was great to see them catching up at the tournament.
