Mike Tindall was back to
work on his popular rugby podcast, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, this
week, alongside his colleagues Alex Payne and James Haskell, and the
conversation soon turned to his stay at Windsor Castle over Easter.
Mike’s colleague Alex was
quick to bring up the stay during their chat, cheekily asking him if he rings a
bell in order to be tended to by Her Majesty’s butlers.
“Do you ever, on weekends
like that, get out of the four-poster bed and ring the little bell for a cup of
tea in the morning and just think ‘How in god’s name have I ended up
here?’?” he asked, to which Mike quickly jokingly replied: “Pretty
much every time I am there, yeah. No, I never ring a bell, obviously, but it’s
strange.”
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Mike and Zara took their eldest daughter with them to church
Earlier in their chat, Mike
also opened up: “Lovely Easter service, it’s like being back at school,
double church, the church at 9 and then church at 11.
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The family were joined by other members of the royal family
“You go in and you look
at the order of service and you think, ‘Oh, it shouldn’t be that long,’ and
then you find out the choir are singing four songs, they make a song look like
it should take two minutes… 14 minutes! Because they go from verse one to the chorus,
back to the first verse, back to the third verse, back the chorus…”