If Prince Harry thought he had a bad seat at his father’s coronation, think about Mike Tindall, who was in the row behind it.
“You’re in the hottest spot, but it’s happening all around the corner where you can’t see anything,” laments the former England rugby star, who is married to King Charles’s niece Zara. “You’re in the front row, but…”
Speaking on his rugby podcast with former international James Haskell, Tindall added: ‘It was incredible to sit there, but frustrating.’
Mike Tindall and Zara Tindall arrive at Westminster Abbey on May 6 for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla
Prince Harry attends the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey. He flew from California for the event
Mike Tindall and wife Zara (in light blue) sat in line behind the Duke of Sussex, who had flown in from California for a whirlwind journey
Mike told his rugby podcast with former international James Haskell that: ‘It was incredible to sit there, but frustrating’
Referring to a screen attached to a pillar in Westminster Abbey, he adds, “We had a TV.”
Harry should have just stayed home in California…
Take That’s right royal record deal
King Charles joined Take That as they performed their hit Never Forget at the final of the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle.
Gary Barlow (left) of Take That and Calum Scott (right) perform at the Coronation Concert on May 7
Now the band has been rewarded with a lucrative new deal with EMI Records.
“They’re missed,” says their manager, Chris Dempsey.
“It was their first performance together in four years – and what a stage to do it on.”
The three-piece group – who were previously signed to Polydor – plan to release their first new album in six years, as well as a film adaptation of the stage musical Greatest Days, and have another major live concert at London’s BST Hyde Park this summer. . .
Aristocrat Catherine FitzGerald spent two days at the Chelsea Flower Show yesterday with ‘King Charles’.
First with her husband, the actor Dominic West, 53, who plays His Majesty in The Crown. Second, with the real King Charles, who attended the garden festival later in the day.
Dominic West (left) and wife Catherine FitzGerald (right) pose in Horatio’s Garden designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
The Irish landscape designer, 52, and her husband live just 14 miles from Highgrove, the home of King’s Gloucestershire.
She is said to have bonded with Charles over their love of horticulture and redesigned the gardens at Hillsborough Castle.
After starring at the coronation of King Charles, Floella Benjamin was determined not to be missed at the Chelsea Flower Show yesterday.
The former TV presenter wore a brightly colored dress and heart-shaped sunglasses.
After starring at the coronation of King Charles, Floella Benjamin (pictured) was determined not to be missed at the Chelsea Flower Show
At Westminster Abbey, Baroness Benjamin, 73, carried His Majesty’s scepter and dove during the ceremony.
Cate Blanchett may be in the French Riviera, but her thoughts are still on gardening.
“I know it’s a cliché, but gardening teaches patience, and that’s something I need to learn,” she tells me at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Hollywood star, 54, says she has put off her ambition to get behind the camera, as has her husband, film director Andrew Upton, adding: ‘I have four kids and a garden, and I don’t want that the plants die.’