Zara Tindall smiled as she presented an equestrian award at the Caledonian Club in London over the weekend.
Princess Anne’s daughter, 43, attended the event to present Scottish jockey Patrick Wadge, 22, with the Caledonian Spirit Award.
The royal donned a striking £780 Rebecca Vallance dress featuring an abstract floral print in shades of blue and pink and short puff sleeves.
Zara, who is married to former rugby player Mike Tindall, styled her blonde hair in a sleek updo and opted for natural makeup for the occasion.
Scottish Racing took to X to congratulate the jockey, writing: ‘A huge congratulations to British Champion Conditional Jockey, Patrick Wadge.
“Not only did Patrick surpass his claim this weekend, he was awarded the Caledonian Spirit Award by Zara Tindall, which embodies the heart of racing. It hasn’t been a bad weekend.
The inaugural award is designed to praise a young and promising personality in the sport who embodies the “true spirit of racing.”
Patrick told Scottish Racing: “It was a great honor and privilege to receive such a prestigious award.”
Zara Tindall was all smiles as she presented Patrick Wadge with the Caledonian Spirit Award on Friday (pictured)
It comes after Mike and Zara Tindall looked loved up as they attended the annual Dorchester Hotel Champions Ball on November 4.
Zara, 43, daughter of Princess Anne and niece of King Charles, looked elegant in a long black dress, which had puffed sleeves and a fabric belt that cinched her waist.
Meanwhile, her husband Mike, 46, looked equally dapper, sporting a classic black tuxedo-style suit and bow tie.
The relaxed couple appeared to be enjoying each other’s company and were photographed smiling and looking relaxed as they attended the prestigious London event.
The Champions Ball, held annually at the Dorchester Hotel, is a charity event supporting Rainbows Children’s Hospice, a palliative care charity based in Loughborough.
Guests typically enjoy a champagne reception, dinner, entertainment, and a charity auction.
It comes just days after former England rugby player Mike praised the Royal Family and said the British people would be “blown away” if they could see what the Prince and Princess of Wales are like behind closed doors.
The former rugby ace, 46, opened up about his wife Zara’s cousin Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton in his new book The Good, the Bad & the Rugby – Unleashed.
Princess Anne’s daughter opted for a £780 Rebecca Vallance dress for the occasion at London’s Caledonian Club.
It dates back to September 2023, when the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 42, appeared with Princess Anne (Mike’s mother-in-law) on their podcast of the same name with co-hosts James Haskell and Alex Payne.
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.
Speaking of Kate and William, who are also parents of three, Mike said: ‘I think the podcast humanised them a bit, and I wish they’d let us release the uncut version, because it would have ruined the audience far 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 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.
The episode, which was recorded during the Rugby World Cup, invited royals onto the podcast as sponsors of the WRU, RFU and SRU.
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.
He announced his 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.”
