Zara Phillips wedding: Mike Tindall says they're different but a perfect match
Opposites attract: Zara Phillips and fiance Mike Tindall say their different characters make them a perfect match Being angry doesnt come naturally to me. Zara isnt like that. Shell say how she feels and show her emotions. But sanguine Tindall insists that the differences in their characters makes them a perfect match.Indeed, the couple are rather renowned for their decidedly hands-on displays of affection a departure for the Queens grand-daughter who was famously seen brawling in the street with her ex-boyfriend, jockey Richard Johnson.In an interview with the August issue of Readers Digest [MUST KEEP IN] the 32-year-old sports star describes his future in-laws as just a normal family.Tindall, who is due to wed Zara, 30, in Edinburgh on Saturday, said: Theyre good, fun people all of them. He says he understands why people had initially wondered whether their backgrounds were too different to make the relationship work.
Weekend wedding: Tindall and ZaraMikes parents are from North Yorkshire. His mother, Linda, is a social worker and his father, Phil, was forced to quit his job as a bank official four years ago after being diagnosed with Parkinsons disease.
He hated retirement, however, and now works as the finance officer at Wakefields New Hall prison.To start with, people wondered whether our backgrounds were too different but its not a pr! oblem, h e said.'Ive been on the edge of her world all the time Ive been playing rugby. I know [Princes] William and Harry because they are great England supporters, and Ive played against Peter [Zaras brother, who represented the Scottish Schools team].
Zaras mum is patron of the Scottish Rugby Union so Ive known her for years. Theyre good, fun people all of them. Theyre just a normal family. As for his own parents, they were, he says, completely unfazed when he told them he was seeing the Queens granddaughter, who is 13th in line to the throne despite not having a royal title.They just want me to be happy. They can see I am, so theyre not worried, and they love Zara, he said.Tindall also reveals that he was set up with the royal by England players Martin Corry and Austin Healey. After meeting her during the World Cup in Australia in 2003 they gave Mike Zara s mobile number claiming she wanted him to text her.Healey has since admitted that Zara said no such thing and he just thought they would make a nice couple. The pair began dating the following year.
Likes a drink: Tindall and friends racked up a 12k bar bill during his hedonistic stag weekend last month, downing beers in the pool and drinking wine straight from the carafe Thecouple are famously shunning a honeymoon following their wedding at Canongate Kirk as Mike is preparing for the World Cup in New Zealand andZara has the Gatcombe Horse Trials the week afterwards.But thats the way we like our lives. Low-key, with lots of sport and as much time together as possible, he said.Im looking forward to Zara being my wife. Is that soppy enough?The entire royal family including fellow newly-weds the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - will descend on Edinburgh towards the end of the week in preparation for the celebrations.As of yesterday, however, the city didnt appear to be brimming over with excitement.Along the famous Royal Mile, Edinburg! hs busie st tourist street which stretches from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where the wedding reception will be held, up to Edinburgh Castle there was barely a Union Jack in sight.None of the so-called Tartan Tat shops was selling a single Zara and Mike souvenir item not even a tea towel and the only mugs on display were those celebrating William and Kates recent nuptials.Police were, however, beginning to carry out security checks on the church and the surrounding area.
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