Zara and Mike Tindall first met nearly 20 years ago
Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall paid their respects to Her Majesty the Queen yesterday during a service at the Palace of Westminster.
The pair first met during the Australian Rugby World Cup in 2003 when 43 year old Mike was playing for his country and when Zara was on a gap year.After rugby player Mike was dropped from the squad shortly before the semi-final, he ventured out to a local pub with two of his mates, Martin Corry and Austin Healy, and quickly bumped into his wife-to-be.
Despite their different backgrounds, Zara and Mike hit it off and became an official item in April 2004, with Zara even introducing the sportsman to her mother, the Princess Royal. While having a romance in the public eye brings its own kind of pressures, their love for sport has kept them grounded. After five years of dating, Mike later got down on one knee and the couple announced their engagement in December 2010.
OK!'s commemorative special edition This 100 page tribute looks back at the life of our most beloved monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, marking key events during her remarkable 70-year reign, as well as her childhood as a young princess, her enduring love for Prince Philip and her family, and the lasting legacy she leaves our nation.A few months after the public wedding thrown by Prince William and Kate Middleton, Zara and Mike said ‘I do’ in a lavish private ceremony in Edinburgh in July 2011.
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