Mike Tindall Dances Like Nobody (Except King Charles III) Is Watching

When you have small children, you know the value of having childcare secured so you can have a night out with just your significant other. A night where nobody’s asking for milk (unless your spouse is an evening dairy enthusiast, to each their own) and you most likely won’t step on a Lego or be busting out a stain stick to daub that “washable” paint out of your outfit while you sigh and sigh and sigh. (Maybe “washable” just means “yes, you can wash it,” not necessarily that it’ll come out.) 

So it goes almost without saying that when you have three little kids, like royals Mike and Zara Tindall, those rare nights out need to be something else. They have three children, ages 9, 4, and 2. 

Mike shared details of the late night the couple shared before the coronation ceremony with Good Morning Britain. The two were reportedly out until 2 a.m. the night before, which lead to Zara doing something that looked an awful lot like nodding off in the pews of Westminster Abbey before King Charles III’s big moment. 

“I don’t regret that,” he said.

“Never worry about what’s tomorrow,” he said of the prior evening’s shenanigans. “Enjoy the moment and then you can deal with the next day later.”

“It was quite nice to have a little date night,” he added. 

And as for his dance moves at the coronation concert later in the weekend? He borrows a line from Hitch, the 2005 film starring Will Smith.

“As Hitch once said in the movie, ‘You’ve got to stay in your safe zone’ and my flag waving, I tried to do the best flag waving out there.”

He did appear to be thriving while dancing to Katy Perry and Lionel Richie at last weekend’s concert. Still, the former rugby player did seem to feel he could have given a little bit more and made Hitch proud: “It’s very difficult when you’re on a raised platform that’s under a lot of lights, I felt I didn’t really put my best foot forward in terms of [my dancing].”

Just imagine the wonders this man would produce if you gave him a stable surface and some Lee Ann Womack. Imagine. 

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