Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nMike Tindall made jokes about Prince Harry and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor during an appearance at the Hay festival. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mike Tindall has joked about hanging out with Prince Harry \u201cwhen he was fun\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n The former rugby star was talking about his 2011 wedding to Harry\u2019s cousin Zara Phillips \u2013 who is the daughter of Princess Anne and her ex-husband Captain Mark Phillips \u2013 when he made the quip about
\n the Duke of Sussex, who stepped back from royal duties with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in 2020 to start a new life in California.\n <\/p>\n
Speaking at the Hay Festival with his The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast co-hosts James Haskell and Alex Payne, the Daily Telegraph reports Mike jokingly expressed his surprise that the former hadn\u2019t made a fool of himself at the wedding and quipped: \u201cA lot of other people managed that way better than you \u2013 [like] Harry, when he was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike \u2013 who has three children with Zara \u2013 also made a joke at the expense of his wife\u2019s uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his titled by King Charles last year.<\/p>\n
Alex noted Mike is well connected thanks to both his rugby credentials and the fact he has \u201cgot his own bedroom at Buckingham Palace\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 22 May, 2026 11:25 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,156,8619,79912,9859,692,89504,225067,1456,111,139,69,3111,4940,180,6182,162013,6736,1316,102],"class_list":["post-440847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-hanging","tag-harry","tag-he","tag-joked","tag-lighthearted","tag-mike","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-prince","tag-shares","tag-stories","tag-tindall","tag-was","tag-when","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}