{"id":473055,"date":"2026-03-13T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473055\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:16:07","slug":"zara-and-mike-have-just-shown-harry-and-meghan-how-stupid-theyve-been-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473055\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara and Mike have just shown Harry and Meghan how stupid they’ve been | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> plan a faux-royal visit Down Under next month<\/a>, easy-going Zara<\/a> and Mike Tindall<\/a> are showing the pair what they could have been. Zara, 44, and Mike, 47 – neither working royals – are always seen at the Cheltenham Festival<\/a> every year, with businesses tied closely to the horseracing and countryside community.<\/p>\n

Set apart from the main core royals at Windsor and Sandringham, the husband and wife have never feared being dragged into her uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s<\/a> or aunt Sarah Ferguson’s<\/a> scandals. Yet the King’s niece has remained a close<\/a> supportive member of the extended family, sometimes ‘stepping in’ for family members with minor duties that were performed by a royal in the past.<\/p>\n

In June 2025, she presented the Royal Windsor Cup trophy -a task traditionally performed by her late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II at an event where she was noted as “stepping in for the King” in a supportive capacity.<\/p>\n

Recent reports last year even hinted that she could be “shadowing” her mother’s duties to provide informal, future aid when Princess Anne’s schedule is packed.<\/p>\n

It has also been suggested Prince William<\/a> may be considering asking Zara to oversee equestrian-related functions on behalf of the Royal Family, as that is her expertise – such as at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n

Ex-England rugby ace Mike Tindall is popular with the public and Princess Charlotte is close friends with Zara and Mike’s daughter Mia.<\/p>\n

Mike has also remarked that his family’s growth has been “quite intertwined with” the Waleses, as their children are of similar ages.<\/p>\n

Yet with Meghan and Harry reportedly considering flying back to the UK for a visit in the summer, it is hard to imagine either relaxing among the public – even at an event likely to be packed by ‘their sort’ like Cheltenham.<\/p>\n

In fact, with their obsession about security, Meghan would likely run a mile if a racegoer staggered in her direction armed with nothing more than a sloshing pint of Guinness.<\/p>\n

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‘Megxit’ was sparked after Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> demanded a unique hybrid model of being working royals in the UK and US while staying financially independent and able to rake in cash from their new ‘Sussex’ brand.<\/p>\n

The late Queen ruled their “half-in, half-out” proposal unworkable by stressing that one cannot “commercially trade” on their Royal status while still serving the Crown.<\/p>\n

But despite most Britons deeming ex-pat Harry, 41, and his actress wife Meghan, 44, pretty meaningless they still like to burn carbon and jet across the world pretending they are full-time UK royals on tour.<\/p>\n

Pre-Megxit they had the nation’s best wishes, but although we sometimes love running our own football team, Government or country down, we don\u2019t like millionaires in LA slagging Britain off.<\/p>\n

We certainly don\u2019t need a prince who once donned a Nazi fancy dress outfit to preach to us that the UK is a racist nation, or as he put it a country with “unconscious bias”.<\/p>\n

So while Harry and Meghan jet the world – last month it was Jordan, next month it’s Australia – pretending they are meaningful royals, they can look at Zara and Mike at Cheltenham and think: “Damn, that could have been us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle plan a faux-royal visit Down Under next month, easy-going Zara and Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99770,96,59,100,60651,983,56,54,55,60650],"class_list":["post-473055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-meghan-markle","tag-mike-tindall","tag-prince-harry","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zara-tindall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473055","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=473055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}