{"id":499008,"date":"2026-05-23T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499008\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:14:18","slug":"mike-tindall-shares-lighthearted-stories-about-hanging-out-with-prince-harry-when-he-was-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499008\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tindall shares lighthearted stories about hanging out with Prince Harry \u2018when he was fun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bang Showbiz<\/p>\n<p>22 May, 2026 11:25 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"m-0\">Share this article<\/p>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Twitter\/X<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Reddit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Mike Tindall made jokes about Prince Harry and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor during an appearance at the Hay Festival. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mike Tindall has joked about hanging out with Prince Harry \u201cwhen he was fun\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The former rugby star was talking about his 2011 wedding to Harry\u2019s 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<br \/>\n         of Sussex, who stepped back from royal duties with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in 2020 to start a new life in California.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">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\u2019t made a fool of himself at the wedding and quipped: \u201cA lot of other people managed that way better than you \u2013 [like] Harry, when he was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Tindall, who has three children with Zara Phillips, also made a joke at the expense of his wife\u2019s uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his title by King Charles last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Payne noted Tindall is well connected thanks to his rugby credentials and the fact he has \u201cgot his own bedroom at Buckingham Palace\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 22 May, 2026 11:25 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[2055,434,18,117,20161,216976,16683,98608,19,17,216977,216975,36126,39615,16682,3395,2417,216974,119388,14612,2046],"class_list":["post-499008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-about","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-hanging","tag-harry","tag-he","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joked","tag-lighthearted","tag-mike","tag-out","tag-prince","tag-shares","tag-stories","tag-tindall","tag-was","tag-when","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116623839662177932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}