Polo matches are generally very formal affairs, but Prince Harry put on a show for onlookers yesterday, pretending to shoot his cousin’s fiancé before wrestling with him on the grass.
Harry, an experienced polo player, competed in the Bernard Weatherill Charity Cup at Beaufort Polo Ground at Tetbury, Gloucestershire, yesterday.
His cousin Zara Phillips showed up to support him, bringing her rugby player fiancé Mike Tindall and several other friends.
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Harry was obviously thrilled to see Mike, rushing over to him with his hand pointed in the shape of a gun and pretending to shoot him several times in the head.
Mike and his friends responded by grabbing Harry’s wrist and wrestling him to the ground. Later when the match had finished, Mike and Harry engaged in another friendly tussle, which ended with Harry on the ground.
Zara was also keen to get in on the action, wrestling with him on a grassy bank nearby.
Zara and Mike will marry in Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, next month.
Mike had his stag party in the US last week, while Zara and her friends celebrated her last days as a single woman in Portugal over the weekend.
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Meanwhile, Mike has opened up about proposing to Zara in a tell-all interview.
“I was upstairs, plucking up the nerve to do it, while Zara was downstairs watching television,” he told the UK’s Daily Mail. “I walked in and got down on one knee, with the ring.
“I said, ‘Will you marry me?’ She started laughing. She was completely in shock. Then, when she stopped laughing, she said, ‘Yes’. That was a relief.”
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