later the Countess of Wessex then the Duchess of Edinburgh, after marrying Prince Edward, is also a fan of windsurfing. Here, she windsurfed off the coast of the Isle of Wight in 1994.

It’s not a secret — surfers come from all over the world to fly across the waves — but even if you’ve never windsurfed before ...

but I am a keen outdoor sportsman. Over the years I have flown paragliders, extreme skied, dived, mountaineered, windsurfed, ...

"I was useless at anything which involved kicking a ball around, but my father windsurfed so I'd sit on the front of his board when I was a child." "I'd done a bit of skateboarding when I was young." ...