Mike Tindall Has "Loads of Regrets" About His Time with Queen Elizabeth
Following the official period of royal mourning, Mike Tindall's podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby has returned with its third season. Tindall, and his cohosts James Haskell and Alex Payne, launched season three with a special tribute episode to Queen Elizabeth.
He recalls how he first met the Queen in 1992, because he attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and the Queen visited for the 400th anniversary of the school. He re-met her when he began dating Zara Tindall, her granddaughter, later on. "For anyone who ever meet the Queen, she was always the Queen," Tindall said.
"I have loads of regrets about not asking her so many more things," Tindall said of the Queen, "having nervousness when you get that lucky seat of being sat next to her."
"What would you ask her now if you could?" Payne asked Tindall.
"Just going back through history and everything she's possibly seen — 15 prime ministers, I don't know how many presidents it is. But to go through everything, when she's meeting dictators, she has to stay neutral, she has to perform her duty," he replied.
"I was starting to get to that point" of comfort with the Queen, Tindall shared, but he never got there. Though he did admit he asked her about meeting Donald Trump—but did not share what she said.
In a funnier anecdote, Tindall also told his podcast co-hosts how he almost accidentally curtsied to King Charles the other day. "Without thinking about it. I was just following behind my wife, saw her curtsy and fortunately didn't," he said. He turned it into "a lower bow... I might have looked like I stubbed my toe on something."
Tindall says hopefully the Queen is now "enjoying a carriage ride with the Duke," referring to her late husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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