Harry’s Cousin’s Spouse Takes 4-Word Swipe at Him After the Prince Addressed Claims He’s No Longer a ‘Part of the Royal Family’
For Prince Harry, sometimes the hits come from everywhere. Ever since he left the British royal family as a working royal, everyone has had an opinion on what Harry and his wife, Meghan, are doing, and almost as importantly, what they should be doing. And sometimes those opinions come from family members, sometimes they come from the public.
Of course, they feel more pointed when they come from family. And that’s what just happened to Harry, after recent comments by Mike Tindall, the husband of Harry’s cousin Zara Tindall, who is Princess Anne’s daughter.
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During the Hay Literary Festival in Powys, Wales, Tindall, who is a former England rugby player, joked that he knew Harry “when he was fun.” Ouch.
While talking to James Haskell and Alex Payne, his co-hosts on his podcast, The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, Tindall discussed his 2011 wedding to Zara Phillips, and expressed his surprise that rugby star James Haskell had not made a fool out of himself then.
Then he added, “A lot of other people managed that way better than you – [like] Harry, when he was fun.” Let’s remember that the wedding took place back when Harry was single and very much in his party days.
But the Harry comments were pretty innocuous in comparison to the Andrew jokes. The chat, after all, came hours after the Thames Valley Police gave an update on their misconduct investigation into the former prince, which has now reportedly been widened to include sex crimes.
Payne joked that Tindall has his own “bedroom at Buckingham Palace”, to which Tindall replied, “Opposite end to Andrew, though.” Not beating around the bush or anything there. The podcast also included jokes about Tindall’s broken nose, for which he had corrective rhinoplasty in 2018.
“Taxpayers’ money fixed it. It’s got the royal warrant if you look inside it,” he joked.
All of this comes after Harry directly addressed suggestions that he’s no longer part of the royal family. “I will always be part of the royal family,” Harry said in an April 24 interview with ITV News during a visit to Ukraine. “I’m here working and doing the very thing that I was born to do, and I enjoy doing it.”
He said about his trip, “I enjoy being able to do these trips and come and support the people I’ve met before.” Harry is no longer a working royal, but he has continued supporting some causes that are near to his heart. Since he stepped back, however, his relationship with both his father, King Charles, and his brother, Prince William, has deteriorated to the point where he basically talks to either of them.
The Duke of Sussex has previously talked about his decision to step back and framed it not as him stepping away from being a royal completely, but about choosing to protect his family the best way he knew how. “It was never walking away,” Harry said during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. “It was a really difficult environment, as I think a lot of people saw. We all know what the British press can be like, and it was destroying my mental health.”
