Mike Tindall as soon as punched Prince Harry after one too many drinks in a prank gone improper.
The rugby star is married to the royal's cousin Zara, and the 2 actually obtained to know Harry effectively after hanging out on the match he was taking part in in again in 2003.
The group have been celebrating England's historic world cup win in Australia, as Mike and his pal determined to play a violent prank on the Prince.
Although issues obtained a little bit out of hand hours after drop-kick hero Jonny Wilkinson despatched England into dreamland Down Underneath in opposition to their previous rivals, writes the Mirror.
Tindall and team-mate Iain Balshaw determined to check simply how good Harry's safety actually have been.
They determined to see if his staff would bounce in even when, say, if two big rugby gamers have been giving him a number of slaps.
The pair determined to hold the plan out to see how rapidly workers would intervene.
However the pesky pair quickly found his bodyguards are literally fairly quick and could not care much less when you've simply received the World Cup.
They quickly discovered that it might solely take a number of seconds for Harry's safety to pin them to the bottom and provides them a critical speaking to.
Tindall spoke in regards to the playful incident on a podcast with England star James Haskell.
Whereas discussing how he might be depicted in Netflix drama The Crown, he mentioned on the present: "That needs to be the principle incident, if it was there — the complete Harry slap."
Then, seemingly referencing Harry's points with the royal household since leaving the UK, he joked that it isn't solely the producers who ought to seize a chunk of the motion.
"At Balmoral, the household at the moment are having the identical dialog," he teased.
"Besides the Queen has taken his safety away."
It comes as Tindall referred to as Prince Harry a "b***finish" throughout the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
A supply overheard the previous English rugby participant referring to the Duke of Sussex's behaviour as that.
Harry and spouse Meghan Markle did not attend the occasion - or every other celebrations publicly - other than a thanksgiving service at St Paul's cathedral the day earlier than.
The couple stayed low-key throughout the 4 days of celebrations - nevertheless it looks like their antics brought about drama behind the scenes.
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