What do you do if Kate Middleton sits next to you at the Olympics?

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What do you do when the Duchess of Cambridge sits down next to you at an Olympic event? If you're British gymnast Kristian Thomas, you sit up straight and try to remember all those manners your mother taught you.

Thomas was sitting in the second row of the O2 Arena on Sunday ready to watch teammates Louis Smith and Max Whitlock compete in the pommel horse finals when a security guard told him Kate Middleton wanted to hang out.

"It was fantastic," Thomas said. "She was really easy to talk to. We talked about the pommel final and some of the elements and what's good and what's bad. She was quite enthusiastic about it."

Thomas added the Duchess was "nervous" while Smith competed but was thrilled when he won silver and Whitlock earned bronze. When asked if he asked Kate for sister Pippa Middleton's phone number, Thomas just laughed and said, "I think my girlfriend would mind."

- Associated Press

Comments

[dennis regan]

Give the world a break! She is a "person"! Must I repeat! A "person"! Just like lizzie and the other parasites! Sitting beside her is nothing compared to sitting beside a person who "accomplished" something" "Anything" better than you or I have. Music-science-sports etc, etc. This family has to go! Let's get out of fantasyland!