Mike Tindall loves to pretend that he’s the Windsors’ biggest cheerleader, but that man is always making the left-behinds sound like drunken idiots and buffoons. Which… fair enough, I actually believe that many of them are half in the bag or constantly buzzed, and I also believe they’re all buffoons. In late 2023, Mike revealed that his nickname for Prince William is “One Pint Willy” and that William is “not the best of drinkers.” Bless One Pint Willy’s heart, because he does try – he’s constantly boozing it up at events, even morning events. But what about the Princess of Wales? Back in the day, Kate had a love of rum punch and “crack-baby cocktails,” but in March of this year, she said that she rarely drinks these days because of her health trouble. Well, Mike Tindall now says that Kate “still” plays drinking games.
Kate Middleton is always up for a particular drinking game. Retired England rugby union player Mike Tindall, 47, who is married to Prince William’s cousin Zara Tindall, made the claim in a new interview with Woman & Home.
“Sport is rife throughout the family – everyone is competitive. We did a podcast on how much they love sport,” Mike said, according to Hello! magazine, referring to a special 2023 episode of his podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby that featured Prince William, Princess Kate and his mother-in-law, Princess Anne.
“I knew that the Princess of Wales was uber competitive because I’d seen her play a drinking game called beer pong, but normally we play Prosecco pong! She still plays it with us,” he said.
In September 2023, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princess Royal sat down with Mike and his podcast co-hosts for an episode of The Good, The Bad & The Rugby.
The special was filmed in the Green Drawing Room of Windsor Castle and timed to the Rugby World Cup, in which Princess Kate, Prince William and Princess Anne all backed different teams for their roles as patrons of the Rugby Football Union, Welsh Rugby Union and Scottish Rugby Union, respectively. A breakout moment of the conversation was Mike’s playful claim that Princess Kate, 44, was “uber competitive,” evidenced by her prowess at “beer pong” — which she coyly denied.
Prosecco Pong? How gauche for Contadina Caterina. Let me tell you something – the royals are exactly the kind of people who don’t believe that wine and beer really “count” as drinking. They think you’re only really drinking if you consume five stiff martinis every afternoon. Which is probably what Camilla does. Anyway, Tindall keeps revealing the most unfortunate secrets. Ol’ One Pint Willy must have learned how to reveal all from Mike!
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Is this supposed to make her sound cool? I’m about 2 months older than Kate and drinking games and who can drink the most alcohol haven’t been funny to me in more than 20 years. I don’t really believe him because alcohol has calories, but still… what a bunch of losers.
There’s something deeply sad about a 40+ year old still playing drinking games. I no longer drink and when I did, I stopped playing drinking games after graduating college. It’s not a very funny story and if one of my friends was still playing drinking games at her big age I’d be deeply concerned.
I don’t think she plays drinking games anymore, Mike does. He’s the one who thinks it’s funny and he does good service to the Waleses by telling this. He knows everyone is bored with them, he finds them boring too. He sees that people are more interested in the Sussexes because of their charisma. So thinks he comes to the rescue saying sht lile this. He is this dumb.
@smartmessy Mike really can’t think that deeply, he’s a genuinely dim oaf. You’re giving him about 50 extra iq points. He’s absolutely not analysing the rf and who’s more popular and why. He just likes sport and drinking so he ascribes it to the wails because hes told to. 🤣🤣🤣
Not just cool but a “cool girl.” She can relax and have fun with the lads, not the type of girl who gives them grief for partying as middle aged dads. Plus the real sign of a cool girl is consuming calories while never gaining weight.
If anyone truly believes Kate and Zara are drinkers of £9 a bottle fizzy pop, then I have a wide variety of goods to sell them.
I doubt that the prosecco they drink costs 9 pounds a bottle.
She looks drunk as a skunk in those photos above with the wonkily placed tiara.
Zara and Mike, the cheating bully, are just tacky, gross people in general so the fact he thinks it’s a charming anecdote that a bunch of 40 year olds are playing beer pong isn’t surprising. Neither is the fact that Keen still drinks.
Nothing they try to tell us is true – from the Wailses happy marriage to reasons for mysterious disappearing acts.
I figured her drink of choice would be “Crack Babies”.
Does Kate pass Mike’s fun to be with test because she takes part in drunken games? Perhaps the bonded over dwarf throwing which I understand Mike has a penchant for!? So classy and not at all means and derogatory if they can sling peasants about when you are drunk?
The tiara looks wobbly on her long hair wig. She is trying for Disney princess look to no avail. I wonder why Charles allows his nephew in law to go on like this to the media
Imagine if it was the Sussexes telling this anecdote.. It would be another attempt to destroy the monarchy and torment poor Kate. So anyway a story about Meghan’s drinking habits in 3 2 1..
Wasn’t he told by the palace suits years ago to stop talking about the BRF? What a big gob.
Is beer pong still a thing? None of these people are interesting to me.
I haven’t seen it since high school/early college and that was in the 80’s lol..
When I attended a 20 year reunion (wow I’m old) of my university program graduates, we did play a round of it for nostalgia’s sake but my son has no idea what that game is (and he’s not sheltered, I guess it’s just not a trend (yet- they’re trying to steal everything from Gen X haha) for the Gen Z)
I’ve seen pingpong balls near the beer recently in various grocery stores. In the US. So it must still be a thing at some level. It’s just that most people outgrow it.
There was also a game called Quarters where you tried to flip a coin into someone’s glass.
If I want a beer (or some prosecco) I will just have it. I don’t need a cheesy excuse and people egging me on.
And I don’t want a gross pingpong ball in my drink! Or a quarter, omg. Filthy!
Technically this could be a story from before the cancerous cells but that’s not how he’s making it sound. And it does refute what she said about not drinking much anymore. So I guess prosecco bong doesn’t count, lol. These men, bw Mike and William, keep opening their mouths and dropping the bag, I swear.
I doubt that Kate is happy with Mike talking about her.
In there 40’s but still acting like they are at university is a not a lifestyle to brag about.. sounds like these people don’t know how to have fun unless they are three drinks in and that to me is a horrible way to live.. no wonder they all seem emotionally stunted it’s because they are.. you would think with teenagers on the horizon they would stop this behavior..
Well I do love prosecco in general so does that make me like a princess?? lol.
Again its clear they have very set things to say in public – Kate saying she doesn’t drink anymore because of the cancer, etc – but then they or someone on their behalf goes on a podcast or talk show and just kills that narrative. Tindall didnt say “well you know kate used to love prosecco pong but she’s stopped playing it since her diagnosis.” But nope! Mike made it clear that Kate still plays it with them.
Drip drip drip their little secrets are coming to light. She doesn’t drink because of her “health” my ass!
If I were married to Charles, I’d need at least six stiff martinis per hour to keep going.
There’s a photo (I have the link somewhere, I’ll add it when I find it) of a drunk Kate at an outdoor event/concert organized by Rossa Hanbury in their gardens. The photo isn’t the best quality, but it clearly shows Kate without William, in tight leotards (black leggings and a tight black strapless top with bare shoulders), the wig is lost somewhere, and a third, large, brimming glass of gin, as the article under the photo stated. Her face shows that she’s drunk in a tent, where she’s accompanied only by Rossa’s husband, the Marquess of David Cholmondeley, and another man. It looks as if they deliberately dragged her to this secluded spot to hide her from the other attendees.
Can someone find and link it? 😲
Was this when she attended a “rave” at that estate?
I found, not exactly this one, but from that moment, maybe a bit earlier, because still the drunkenness isn’t so obvious on her face. Maybe it’s still not her third gin yet, but only her second one :)), but you can see that she’s lost or omitted some of her hair somewhere, because her head is bald compared to what we’re used to. The tent is basically empty, only Rosse and someone are standing behind Kate.
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Any idea when this was and was Will equally blotto?
Good lord, that tiara is so wrong for that hairstyle and so badly anchored it’s unreal. Are they deliberately trying to make her look terrible?
One pint willy was obviously ironic. This guy obviously drinks regularly, daily, or even first in the morning. He’s one pint by breakfast let alone those ‘occasional’ drinks. Kate might drink but with her eating issues, it’s unlikely she can have more than a sip? Her body is very stressed as is. I do though know someone who died from anorexia and alcohol abuse. Her drinking basically brought forward the other issues. She had a heart attack at 27. Anorexia is a horrible disease, its so sad when coupled with alcoholism.
The Windsor’s are notoriously big drinkers. The queen mother had more than the equivalent of two bottles wine a day in alcohol. But that was publicly known, probably a lot more. Qe2 also drank a fair bit daily. It was pre lunch drinks, lunch drinks. Pre dinner drinks, dinner drinks. Post dinner drinks. Bed drinks. Queen mother had get out of bed drinks, too. Then Margaret and all the cousins.
Someone I grew up with died from the anorexia/alcohol combo, and two other women I know of in my wider community also died suddenly of it. One had been sober (although from what was said, she’d only had a couple encounters with alcohol before going into recovery) and then binge drank a bottle of vodka. And that was it, she had a seizure and then died. A friend in nursing said underweight bodies are under stress anyway, and then they can’t absorb the shock of the problem.
He made it clear that “she still plays Prosecco Pong” as in she still does after the cancer diagnosis, so I believe that this isn’t him reminiscing about old times with William and Kate but about her since 2024. There have been too many instances where she looked out of it with her goofy smile or inappropriate laughing, like when those children were screaming when they were caught outdoors in that torrential downpour and she stood there laughing hysterically at them and not sharing her umbrella. That lopsided tiara was likely another one. I think if anything she drinks more than she eats which might explain her extremely frail looking body. I think that’s why they always do joint bar events and William even does them without her. I think they are both heavy drinkers and that’s when the cushions come out for a little aggressive back and forth between the two of them. That’s why we’ve seen William swaying during events and why he sometimes does that strange goofy look that she does at awkward times.
Honestly, I constantly see the “upper middle class” here in the US hosting alcohol fueled high school and college graduation parties with beer pong and the parents getting utterly annihilated. They’re fun, you see. Not like those old people. Everyone takes everything too seriously. Etc etc etc
Forty-year-olds playing drinking games are just sad.
Using prosecco instead of beer doesn’t make it any classier.
Why did Zara settle for him? He looks like an unwashed thug, has no decorum, has never grown up, no depth or sensitivity and unfaithful?
I don’t think Zara was a huge prize, and when they met, he was a famous English rugby hero.
I feel like Gossip Queen Mike’s stories are sometimes worse than how that family perceives Spare. Hey Britain, your next king and queen are booze hounds!
Agreed 💯@Sue does Mike actually think this is endearing? He’s quite the chatty man when he’s boasting about his royal family connections and activities on his podcast. Abusing his royal proximity and embarrassing drunken tales of boozy antics amongst them, whatever next?