From captaining the hockey team during her time at Marlborough College to playing volleyball in wedges, the Princess of Wales is one of the sportiest members of the Royal Family.
Kate O'Connor says her late grandmother "would have been jumping for joy" at the Irish athlete claims gold in the heptathlon at the European Championships in Birmingham.
Ireland's Kate O'Connor is in pole position for heptathlon gold with just the 800m remaining at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, but Katarina Johnson-Thompson is out of contention.