{"id":103866,"date":"2025-05-15T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103866\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:41:09","slug":"zara-tindall-brings-cheeky-naughtiness-out-of-king-charles-says-ex-royal-staffer-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103866\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Tindall brings ‘cheeky naughtiness’ out of King Charles says ex-royal staffer | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zara Tindall<\/a> has an extremely strong bond with her family despite her not being a working royal<\/a>, with her close relationship and bond with King Charles<\/a> being described by a former royal staffer.<\/p>\n

Former royal gardener, Jack Stooks, believes her close relationship with her uncle<\/a>, King Charles, allows her to bring out his fantastic sense of humour, something that members of the public don\u2019t normally get to see. Speaking on behalf of Fruity King<\/a>, Jack said: “Zara always seems quite lighthearted. The King has a good sense of humour and is fun as well, but people don\u2019t necessarily see that much.<\/p>\n

“They don\u2019t know what he\u2019s like, so he can seem a bit stiff. But I think Zara brings a bit of that cheeky naughtiness out of him, and she can always make him laugh.”<\/p>\n

The former royal gardener also shared an insight into the family life Zara<\/a> and her husband, Mike Tindall, have created for themselves.<\/p>\n

He said: “They’re just very normal down to earth people. Their whole family has been brought up so down-to-earth. You see them in Tesco and they\u2019re just left alone to shop. Even though they\u2019re royal, they don\u2019t act like they need any kind of special treatment.”<\/p>\n

Another former staffer, Grant Harrold, who previously worked as a royal butler, believes Zara offers solid support for the entire Royal Family. He says: “She\u2019s very fond of her uncle and step-aunt, as well as her cousins William and Harry. She\u2019s a great support to the entire Royal Family. She\u2019s just got a lovely way about her.”<\/p>\n

Despite not having a HRH title and not being a working royal, Zara has an extremely strong bond with senior members of the Royal Family and is often seen as a strong support during difficult times. In particular, she was seen attending royal events<\/a> to support Prince William<\/a> when King Charles was first diagnosed with cancer last year.<\/p>\n

The daughter of Princess Anne is celebrating her 44th birthday today<\/a> (May 15) and husband Mike has taken to Instagram<\/a> to send his wife a birthday message, but he couldn’t resist a cheeky joke.<\/p>\n

Alongside a beautiful picture of him and his wife, Mike wrote the caption: “Happy Birthday to the better Tindall”. Then, in a funny twist, he revealed how he was celebrating the day, “She\u2019s even let me play golf on her birthday!”<\/p>\n

Zara and Mike’s next major milestone will come this summer when they will celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary on July 30. The couple first met in a Sydney bar in 2003 and they were both in Australia at the time, Zara was on a gap year with friends, and Mike was with the England rugby team for the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zara Tindall has an extremely strong bond with her family despite her not being a working royal, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,518,8129,7710,519,26768,10858,448,47947,13083],"class_list":{"0":"post-103866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-mike-tindall","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royal-family-members","17":"tag-royal-news","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-zara-mike","20":"tag-zara-tindall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114512612069983547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}