{"id":91279,"date":"2025-05-10T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91279\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:36:10","slug":"zara-tindall-opens-up-about-struggles-in-royal-family-and-reveals-how-they-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91279\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Tindall opens up about &#8216;struggles&#8217; in Royal Family and reveals how they cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZARA Tindall has spoken of the \u201cstruggles\u201d in the Royal Family \u2014 and says they cope with problems like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/princess-anne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a> said: \u201cIt is very hard to see from the outside but, 100 per cent, it is a family that is still going through the same struggles other people do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zara Tindall in a light blue dress and hat at Royal Ascot.\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" data-credit=\"Splash\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2024-zara-seen-stunning-blue-911085779.jpg\" data-caption=\"Zara Tindall says members of the Royal Family face personal challenges just like everybody else\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2024-zara-seen-stunning-blue-911085779.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Zara Tindall says members of the Royal Family face personal challenges just like everybody elseCredit: Splash<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/relationships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships<\/a>, obviously it is very easy to see every day. We\u2019re still very supportive of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> Sporting Club lunch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/zara-tindall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zara<\/a> also spoke about her late grandmother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>, who died in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe had a very incredible person to look up to who is sadly not here any more. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was amazing and an inspiration to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Olympic horse rider also told of getting together with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/mike-tindall\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">husband Mike, 46<\/a> \u2014 after insisting that he stripped naked.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling a \u201clunch or dinner\u201d date in 2003, she said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/24392075\/where-england-2003-rugby-team-are-now\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England rugby star<\/a> asked her for a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI said, \u2018If you get naked, I will give you a kiss\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So he got naked, I gave him a kiss and then\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was so drunk and he passed out and I had to leave him there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of my mates had to come and pick him up. I can\u2019t move a 20-stone rugby player when he has passed out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newlywed Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips share kiss at their 2011 wedding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZARA Tindall has spoken of the \u201cstruggles\u201d in the Royal Family \u2014 and says they cope with problems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[560,8129,5105,7710,519,448,13083],"class_list":{"0":"post-91279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-exclusives","9":"tag-mike-tindall","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals","14":"tag-zara-tindall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486168042423575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91279","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=91279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}