Mike Tindall shares lighthearted stories about hanging out with Prince Harry ‘when he was fun’

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22 May, 2026 11:25 PM2 mins to read

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Mike Tindall made jokes about Prince Harry and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor during an appearance at the Hay Festival. Photo / Getty Images

Mike Tindall has joked about hanging out with Prince Harry “when he was fun”.

The former rugby star was talking about his 2011 wedding to Harry’s cousin Zara Phillips, who is the daughter of Princess Anne and her ex-husband Captain Mark Phillips, when he made the quip about the Duke
of Sussex, who stepped back from royal duties with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in 2020 to start a new life in California.

Speaking at the Hay Festival with his The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast co-hosts James Haskell and Alex Payne, the Daily Telegraph reports Tindall jokingly expressed his surprise that the former hadn’t made a fool of himself at the wedding and quipped: “A lot of other people managed that way better than you – [like] Harry, when he was fun.”

Tindall, who has three children with Zara Phillips, also made a joke at the expense of his wife’s uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his title by King Charles last year.

Payne noted Tindall is well connected thanks to his rugby credentials and the fact he has “got his own bedroom at Buckingham Palace”.