{"id":301073,"date":"2025-12-05T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301073\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:16:07","slug":"hay-festival-royal-and-rugby-player-mike-tindall-to-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301073\/","title":{"rendered":"Hay Festival: Royal and rugby player Mike Tindall to appear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Mike Tindall, an English rugby player and the husband of King Charles’s niece, Zara, will be teaming up with fellow player James Haskell and presenter Alex Payne.\n<\/p>\n

\n Guests have been told to “buckle up” for a riotous evening filled with “boyish banter, rugby reminiscence and surprisingly personal stories of life beyond the pitch”.\n<\/p>\n

\n The “energising mix” of storytelling and mischief, with plenty of “game talk” and discussions on the development of their careers, will be held on Thursday, May 21, 2026.\n<\/p>\n

\n Tindall became the final member of England\u2019s 2003 World Cup-winning team to retire in 2024.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Then 35, Tindall decided to hang up his boots after almost two decades in the game with Bath and Gloucester.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Tindall, who married into the Royal family in 2011, started his career with Bath in 1997 and spent eight seasons at the Rec before moving to their West Country rivals Gloucester.\n<\/p>\n

\n In 2022, Tindall participated in the 22nd series of the hit ITV show, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! leaving the jungle after three weeks in fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tindall, an English rugby player and the husband of King Charles’s niece, Zara, will be teaming up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-301073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}