Mike Tindall admits 'frustration' at allocated seat for King Charles' Coronation
ok.co.ukMike and his wife Zara Tindall weren't in direct eyeline to the coronation ceremony of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey earlier this month, it's been revealed.The pair, who share three children in Lena, Lucas and Mia, were of course guests as members of the royal family - Zara, 42, being a granddaughter of the late Queen Elizabeth II - while celebrities such as Ant McPartlin, Dec Donnelly and Katy Perry took a seat too.
As it happens, they were on the same row as Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, and just four back from the likes of Princess Eugenie, her sister Princess Beatrice and the controversy magnet that is Prince Harry, and yet, Mike, 44, and Zara's vision was impaired by something as simple as a structural corner.
Recalling the special day on his, James Haskell and Alex Payne's podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, the former sportsman said: "You're in the hottest spot, but it's happening all around the corner where you can't see!
You do have a front-row seat, but... "It was unbelievable being sat there, but frustrating." Attendees unable to see the crowning unfold in front of them were able to instead watch on a TV screen attached to one of the building's massive pillars.
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