Mike Tindall shares Queen's moving words as she approved her own coffin's final journey
ok.co.ukMike Tindall has revealed the late Queen's moving words when she approved the repatriation flight of her coffin, prior to her death earlier this month.
She passed away at Balmoral in Scotland on 8 September, meaning her coffin had to be flown back to London, and former rugby ace Mike, 43, who is married to the Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall, 41, revealed that the original choice of plane for the job was scrapped, in favour of something "more dignified".
Although he couldn't verify the story, saying it was told to him by an "old army friend", Mike said: "It wasn't the original plane picked and they had to change it and they went for this big old plane to make it more dignified." He claimed that, upon the Queen learning that the intended plane would be a larger RAF aircraft which had previously repatriated the bodies of British soldiers, she said: “If it’s good enough for my boys, it’s good enough for me.” He added: "And that in itself just sort of sums it up." Mike made the comments on his podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, where he also spoke about the royal family coming together for the Queen's funeral, which took place on 19 September.
Describing the last few weeks of mourning, the dad of three said: "It's been sad, emotional but happy." Asked to comment on the Queen's death and her funeral, he replied: "In some ways amazing, in other ways to see the family come so close together - overnight.
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