How Wills and Kate argue over Scrabble:  Royal couple can never finish a game because 'someone gets in a mood and slams the box shut'

By Katie Davies

PUBLISHED: 00:09 EST, 16 March 2013 | UPDATED: 04:34 EST, 16 March 2013


There is a crown that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge argue over - but it isn't the one you'd expect.

According to a new documentary, the only thing that makes the young newlyweds argue is who is the reigning Scrabble champion in the royal household.

A film called Our Queen which lifts the lid on the lighter side of royal life has revealed Prince William and Kate love nothing better than a night on a tiles - a game of Scrabble that is.

Q, U, E, E... The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have revealed one cause of conflict in the royal household - Scrabble. Apparently both hate to lose at the board game for wordsmiths

Q, U, E, E... The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have revealed one cause of conflict in the royal household - Scrabble. Apparently both hate to lose at the board game for wordsmiths

Loser packs up: According to Kate the couple are so competitive the loser usually storms out before a game is finished

Loser packs up: According to Kate the couple are so competitive one of them usually storms out before a game is finished

However, like many other families, it seems the board game doesn't always mean a quiet night in as both royals hate to lose.

Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo is the person who lifts the lid on the royal hobby in Our Queen - a two hour film which airs on Sunday in the UK.

 

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After a conversation with Kate at a reception for Team GB, the athlete reveals all.

'She said when they play Scrabble they don’t usually finish a game because somebody got in a mood and slammed it shut,' he laughs.

The couple's love of winning was clearly displayed at the London Olympics where they joined in the celebrations for Britain's medalists.

Scrabble queen: The Duchess of Cambridge shared her secret with Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo, who is interviewed in a new documentary following the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee year

Scrabble queen: The Duchess of Cambridge shared her secret with Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo, who is interviewed in a new documentary following the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee year

The film follows the royal household for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year giving a glimpse behind the scenes and interviews with the Queen both in Buckingham Palace and Balmoral.

Producer-director Michael Walden said the documentary earned rare access.

'She is in one sense a woman at home', he says of the footage

The footage also reveals the lighter side to the monarch who tends to confuse visiting leaders at state dinners by hiding microphones in bouquets of flowers so they don't spoil the look of the occasion.

She always personally inspects the table settings ahead of such an event.

At one such occasion she is filmed asking her staff: 'Where have you hidden it this time?', before adding 'They’re always mystified when I say ‘It’s perfectly alright, just speak’.'

The film is the first feature length documentary following the Queen in more than 20 years.

One scene shows the Prime Minister David Cameron being shown to the monarch discussing a visit to a tractor factory in Basildon, Essex.

They go on to discuss the Eurozone crisis and the Queen says she has received a phone call from the King of Greece on the subject - he is currently in exile in Britain and is Prince William's godfather.

'He is very worried about it,' the Queen says.

Mr Cameron says the regular Wednesday meeting with the Queen is not purely for ceremony.

'It's a very frank conversation about everything going on in the world that week,' he tells the interviewer.

'There's a very therapeutic side to it because sometimes you find it is all becoming clearer as you explain it to this one incredibly experienced person.

'You're always very conscious you're her 12th Prime Minister. She's been listening to this stuff for 60 years.'

VIDEO: Our Queen - documentary airs in UK on ITV at 8pm tomorrow


 
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The film is the first feature length documentary following the Queen in more than 20 years.--Really? What was the "Year in the life of the Queen" documentary that I saw in 2010? The documentary that showed life behind the scenes including the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot that was edited to make it look like the queen left early in a huff when it was really showing her on the way to the photoshoot?

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To so very, very many of you whose comments are overly wordy: TLDR

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- red-arrow-magnet ,- You do not understand anything do you. Your eyes are clearly shut and you will not listen to any arguments made against you. You do not understand the posts in front of you. I never said the post came from abroad, it is one way in showing how popular they are. Whether or not, the million people lining the streets come from the UK or not, does not mean the economy does not gain anything. Do you even understand how the economy works? Clearly not

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Also if you could do Math¿s, then you would known the loss would be 2.13 Billion as London made £107 million, then as I have already said £500 million where made by pubs and shops so that¿s 1.63 Billion loss

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- adamb , winchester, United Kingdom, 18/3/2013 10:30...its the same with the mail /email you claim they recieve.again you cannot unless you work in the royal mail room know how much of it comes from outside the uk and how much of it comes from within the uk. in real terms the " official" pages don't really have that many followers...the majority of those "lining the streets" were born and live in the uk,the same with those holding the street parties so the economy didn't gain anything from them,they would have spent that money regardless...that's the entire flaw in your agrument for tourism there is no way to verify who is a tourist and who resides here..the expected number of tourists simply did not turn up..since london is the only city that appears to benefit from the rf maybe london should pay for them?my eyes are wide open and i can see the world very clearly,maybe its you that needs to open yours a little bit more?

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- adamb , winchester, United Kingdom, 18/3/2013 10:30...the problem is you don't know how many of those visitors were tourists or residents of the uk...nobody asks where are you from when you buy your ticket...and actually there is considerable proof that if the palaces were full open for longer the visitor numbers would increase...not quite sure why you keep insisting the royal collection make £50 million a year...given that the enterance fee and any money spent in the palaces goes to the "palace restoration fund" the queen's personal charity.....and its the same with the wedding / jubilee..hmm londons boom of £107 mill (alleged by you) against the 2,2billion (stated by the governor of the bank of england) lost to the economy in production hours /wages...doesn't seem a fair return to the rest of the country if london is the only one making money does it? and again you can't verify that the majority of those "lining the streets" were or were not residents of the uk

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red-arrow-magnet , london, United Kingdom, 17/3/2013 11:48. All the media coverage for one, all the people turning up to everyday events, the amount of people interested in them helping there charities. The amount of emails, mail etc they palaces receives, followers on twitter, facebook etc Then oh yeah the Royal wedding, 26.3 million watched it through out in the UK 72 million on the Royal channel youtube. Oh yeah and a million people lined the streets, then how many people throughout the country held parties and watched the wedding in the public places. Close your eyes yourself if you want, but monarchy is popular.

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red-arrow-magnet , london, United Kingdom, 17/3/2013 11:48. Clearly you did not read the post so let¿s do this again, in descending order. Windsor Castles, 1.15 million, Buckingham palace 626,678 , The Royal Mews 271,253 , Palace of Holyroodhouse 267,000 and the Queen Gallery 53,000 so these figures are not high? Lol you are a fool. You clearly lack the ability to understand the simplest things, and lack the ability to do the research. The Royal wedding was a boom to certain industries, mainly in London. For example London had a boom of £107 million because of the wedding watchers. Around £500 million for pub and shops. The economy was hit because we had a bank holiday. So come on then produce the data that¿s shows tourism was down? Do you think you can do that? So said there was little interest in the Royals yet everything produces you wrong.

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red-arrow-magnet , london, United Kingdom, 17/3/2013 11:48 Are you really that thick? I didn¿t say Buckingham palace was 19th. I said a Windsor castle was 19th and, by the way Windsor is open all year. And yes the figures are correct if you bothered to do the research, and looked at the documents you would see these figures are correct. These are not estimations; the palaces have collected the numbers because they have the ability to, they collect the data when tickets are brought and when people turn up. In total the Royal collect produced over £50 million last year. So you are saying that is not good for tourism? Yet again, no one has said all the visitors are coming here for the Royals. What do you not get? Also no they is no proof to say or not say if Buckingham palace was open longer more people would come to see the palace. One point to make the point, the reason for them visiting will not change.

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- micmac, Sydney, Australia, 17/3/2013 21:48.... i think you'll find tax arrangements for the royals are very different from the "average" person,,,we'll never know of course because the mountbatten-windsors are the only family in the uk that CANNOT be audited by the inland revenue...why do you think charles is claiming its against his "human rights" for full details of his tax affairs to be released (even thought the hmrc has said there's no legal reason why they couldn't / shouldn't be) ? ........- jerseydevil, beautiful Chincoteague Island, United States, 18/3/2013 2:27...please do pound for pound we'd save a fortune!!!...we'd only have to pay for one house instead of the many we currently do...security costs would also be reduced as we would only be paying for the immediate family and not the extended family..you on the other hand might not be quite as happy once you know the true costs of having a monarchy...their an expensive bunch

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