James Haskell revealed that the Prince and Princess of Wales have “a wicked sense of humour” on Good Morning Britain on Monday.
The former British and Irish Lion, 39, joined Mike Tindall, 46, on the ITV show to talk about meeting his wife Zara’s cousin Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton. for his podcast The Good, the Bad & the Rugby.
The surprise appearance of the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princess Royal, in The Good, the Bad and The Rugby, delighted royal fans when it was announced last September.
Speaking today about William and Kate Middleton, James said: “That podcast was brilliant because we see them at their best, they obviously have a wicked sense of humour, in this country in particular we obviously put people on a pedestal, but they are a normal family, an incredible family, they do a lot for this country, but a normal family.
Speaking on the podcast, Kate revealed that she and William never finish a tennis match against each other because it becomes a “mental challenge”.
James Haskell (right) revealed that Prince William and Kate Middleton have “a wicked sense of humour” on Good Morning Britain with Mike Tindall (left) on Monday.
The episode, which was recorded during the Rugby World Cup, invited royals onto the podcast as sponsors of the WRU, RFU and SRU.
During the discussion at Windsor Castle, the topic of competitiveness was raised: Kate and William were asked about the competition between them and one of the presenters revealed that Mike had compared them to Monica from the sitcom Friends, who is known for his always insatiable desire. be the best at everything.
He said: “I’m not going to lie… but Mike has shown that you two are super, super competitive, a bit like Monica from Friends, and if you play table tennis, that will last for hours and hours.” , and be like, fold or abandon.’
To which Kate replied: “I’m not really that competitive, I don’t know where this comes from.”
She then joked that she and William never managed to finish a tennis match, and laughed as she explained that “it becomes a mental challenge between the two of us.”
Mike then asked if the couple’s three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five, are showing signs of competitiveness.
Princess Anne chimed in and said: “I would suggest just a little bit.”
Kate revealed: ‘The interesting thing is that they obviously all have very different temperaments.
The Prince of Wales’s surprise appearance, accompanied by the Princess Royal, in The Good, the Bad and The Rugby, delighted royal fans when it was announced last September.
“And as they get older and try different sports (they’re obviously still very young), it will be interesting to see how he grows and develops.”
Elsewhere in the interview, James revealed that Princess Anne “buried” him with a witty comment.
He explained: “I’m not going to spoil the whole story, but Princess Anne Buried Me summed it up pretty well, Mike had told Prince William that we were going on a cruise during the world cup and William asked me if I was going.” to be the presenter and I said “well, it sounds something like that”, and Princess Anne said, “yes, I can see that”.
Meanwhile, Mike revealed that James, who appeared on the show in 2019, gave him some advice ahead of his stint on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2022.
Mike said: “The cameras are on 24 hours a day but you only see 20 minutes so James advised me to stay away from anything that wasn’t comfortable.”
“If all else fails and you don’t understand the situation, go to the bathroom and hide in the bucket.”
James added: “Someone sat down with me and said, ‘Barack Obama is the most corrupt president we’ve ever seen,’ I just got up and walked away because I’m not going to get involved in this sort of thing, you’re going to have a difference of opinion and the People sometimes forget where they are.
“If all else fails, I sat behind that curtain so many times and thought, ‘Why did I agree to do this?’
During the discussion at Windsor Castle, the topic of competitiveness was raised, Kate and William were asked about the competition between them and one of the presenters revealed that Mike had compared them to Monica from the sitcom Friend.
Mike also talked about Prince William and Kate. in his new book The Good, the Bad & the Rugby – Unleashed.
He said: “I think the podcast humanized them a little bit, and I wish they’d let us release the uncut version, because it would have blown the audience away.”
He continued: “They seemed down to earth, totally engaged, fun and knowledgeable… it was a much more enlightening talk than I expected, not because I thought they would be boring (I already knew they were ‘t), but because I know that everything to do with the royal family is so carefully controlled.’
The father-of-three also praised his mother-in-law, the Princess Royal, for knowing “more about sport than almost anyone I’ve ever met”, although as a former Olympic equestrian athlete, this may not come as a big surprise. for real fans.
While reflecting on the podcast and his relationship with senior members of the royal family, Mike also spoke about how the public perception of being a senior working royal is largely inaccurate and explained that it’s all about much more than ‘shake some hands’ and ‘cut the odd ribbon’.
Instead, he continued, life as a senior member of The Firm is “overwhelming” in an excerpt from his new book.
Tindall, who shares close relationships with several of her in-laws, added that it was “frustrating” to allow these myths to perpetuate, but that she had learned to “live with it” over the years.
‘In fact, that’s one of the royal family’s mottos: ‘Never explain, never complain.’ “I try not to think about it, even though it took me a long time to get to that point,” he continued.
Mike and Zara were married at Canongate Kirk on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on July 30, 2011.
‘And I also try to be myself. Maybe that’s why I relive the bumps so much, because I want people to know that I’m actually a decent guy, which goes back to wanting to be liked.’
Mike and Zara were married at Canongate Kirk on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on July 30, 2011.
Zara is the daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, making her 21st in line to the British throne.
She announced her engagement to Tindall, who designed the ring himself, in December 2010, four months before the then-Dukes of Cambridge, William and Kate, married at Westminster Abbey.
Since their summer wedding in 2011, Mike and Zara’s down-to-earth personalities and love-filled public appearances have endeared the royal couple to the British public.
They share three children, daughters Mia, 10, Lena, six, and son, Lucas, three.
Elsewhere in his book, Mike recalled how joining the royal family after his 2011 wedding to Zara was “pretty easy for me.”
She reportedly wrote: ‘Believe it or not, marrying into the royal family was pretty easy for me. They were always nice to me and I was always nice to them. Really simple.’
The former rugby star also claimed that life within the royal family was “nothing like Downton Abbey”, a reference to Julian Fellowes’ much-loved period drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
In an excerpt from his book, he said: “I am sometimes asked if the Queen did informality like ‘normal’ people, and the answer is yes.
“Her life wasn’t like an episode of Downton Abbey, with meals at long tables and everyone dressed in their best clothes every night.”
Instead, Mike continued, he and Zara “often watched the races with her” on television, as most people “have done with their grandmother.”
The release of Mike’s new book comes on the same day that the paperback version of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, hits shelves.
