'Amid all the failed royal marriages, there's a couple who mean the world to each other – you've got to love them'

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Fourteen years ago to the day, Zara (née Phillips) and Mike Tindall announced their engagement to the world. Cut to 2024, and unlike many failed royal marriages, the couple are still going strong, now parents to three children, Mia, Lena and Lucas.The former rugby player popped the all important question in a low-key proposal at their home on July 12 2010.

Speaking about the moment at the time, Mike said: “I was upstairs, plucking up the nerve to do it, while Zara was downstairs watching television,” he recalled. “It was all about shock value - I wanted to catch her when it was quiet, and she wasn’t expecting anything… She was completely in shock.Then, when she stopped laughing, she said, ‘Yes.’ That was a relief.” The couple have remained popular with the public, as former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond discusses their relationship with OK! “They are just brilliant, aren’t they?

The modern, fun and extremely glamorous side of the Royal Family.” “Everyone loves how down to earth they are, how shrewdly they have navigated the tightrope of being royal and making a commercial living.

Mike has somehow managed to take part in reality TV and have his rugby podcast without letting too much out of the bag…just enough to keep us tantalised.” Mike took part in Series 22 of I'm A Celebrity in 2022, lasting 21 days in the Australian jungle.