Pippa Middleton is more commonly seen drinking champagne than making charity visits but she took a leaf out of her older sister’s book last week, playing a game of volleyball for a local special needs school.
Pippa got sporty during a visit to Mary Hare, a school for the deaf near her parents’ home in Berkshire.
She is an ambassador for the school and wrote about her return to the volleyball court in her fortnightly newspaper column – titled Sport and Social – admitting she was “rather nervous” ahead of the match.
“I haven’t played volleyball for years, let alone in front of such a large audience,” the 30-year-old wrote. “Two minutes later I’m in position and being ordered around by my team-mates as I struggle to recall the different techniques I once knew.”
Pippa also gushed about the “wonderful things” the specialist school does for the children who attend.
“Mary Hare is going from strength to strength. It now educates a quarter of all children who attend schools for the deaf in England,” she wrote.
The column – which is published in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper – is not Pippa’s first foray into journalism. She turned food writer for Waitrose, in the upscale supermarket chain’s magazine, columnist for The Spectator and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, producing sports commentary.
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