Pippa Middleton and the lure of rugby boys

 
9 January 2014

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is said to be dating Oxford University student and rugby player Matthew Janney — and now Pippa Middleton has come forward to explain her own sporting teenage crushes. The younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge used her column in this month’s Vanity Fair to recall a sport-watching tradition in the family.

“Rugby was a big thing for our family,” she writes. “If we lost, my dad would be in a state of despair for the rest of the afternoon. I, meanwhile, would merely be pining after the likes of Will Carling or Jonny Wilkinson.” How flattering for Carling, but doesn’t he have another royal connection?

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