Mike Tindall says joining the royal family was 'pretty easy.' It's a stark contrast to Kate and Meghan.

• Mike Tindall says marrying into nan royal family was beautiful smooth.
• Tindall, a erstwhile rugby player, joined Zara Tindall, who is not a moving royal.
• Royal experts said it's different for moving royals who are "marrying into nan family business."

Princess Anne's son-in-law, Mike Tindall, said marrying into nan royal family was an "easy" acquisition for him.

A fewer duchesses mightiness beryllium envious of that.

Tindall is simply a erstwhile master rugby subordinate and hubby to Zara Tindall, King Charles' niece.

She was calved without a title and is 21st successful line to nan throne astatine nan clip of writing.

Royal experts said his experience, arsenic a man and arsenic a much peripheral royal, is very acold removed from nan high-stakes entries of outsiders for illustration Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.

Both women — now nan Princess of Wales and Duchess of Sussex — gave up their careers and stepped into a harsh spotlight.

"Maybe that's nan lawsuit erstwhile you're a achromatic man marrying a royal family personnel pinch nary titles," Kristen Meinzer, a royal commentator, author, and big of respective podcasts including "The Royal Report," told BI of Tindall's experience.

"In that case, each you get are benefits — entree to wealth, fame, and power, minus nan scrutiny and work," she added.

Meinzer said it's an wholly different acquisition for those who wed moving royals, arsenic they "aren't conscionable committing to a spouse, they're besides marrying into nan family business."

The Tindalls were ne'er portion of nan family business

Mike is nan cohost of a podcast, "The Good, nan Bad, and nan Rugby", alongside [former player] James Haskel and [sports broadcaster] Alex Payne. In an excerpt of nan trio's upcoming book, obtained by The Telegraph, Tindall wrote astir what it was for illustration to subordinate 1 of nan world's astir celebrated families.

"Believe it aliases not, marrying into nan royal family was beautiful easy for me. They were ever bully to me, and I was ever bully to them. Simple really," Tindall wrote.

Mike was introduced to his early woman successful 2003 by Prince Harry, according to aggregate reports. They dated for 7 years earlier marrying successful 2011.

The mates person ne'er been "working royals," a word for members of nan British royal family who transportation retired nationalist duties connected behalf of nan monarch.

Working royals are entitled to costs from the Sovereign Grant, an yearly allowance originated from British taxpayers that covers charismatic travel, spot upkeep, utilities, and worker payroll. In 2023, nan Sovereign Grant costs taxpayers £86.3 million, aliases astir $112.6 million.

[In exchange, they are expected to forgo different paid work.]

Since Zara was raised arsenic a backstage citizen, she was capable to prosecute a successful equestrian career, and successful 2012, she won a metallic badge astatine nan London Olympics.

Similarly, Mike was capable to proceed his rugby profession until he retired successful 2014.

Though nan mates doesn't person entree to nan Sovereign Grant, they still "benefit financially" from their royal connections pinch various sponsorships, said Marlene Koenig, a historian, author, and master connected British and European royalty.

For example, Zara has aggregate sponsorships, including pinch nan outdoor clothing marque Musto, which Hello magazine estimates could beryllium worthy much than $100,000. Meanwhile, Mike has besides secured sponsorship deals pinch Pueris CBD, Domino's, Amazon Prime, and nan online trading level UFXMarkets, nan outlet said.

"It is easy for Mike because he gets to use from his position without nan work being royal," Koenig told BI.

Kate and Meghan knowledgeable 'seismic' pressure

Richard Fitzwilliams, a royal commentator and public-relations consultant, told BI that Tindall's acquisition is vastly different from Kate and Meghan's, who knowledgeable a "seismic" level of unit pinch "every activity monitored and each outfit examined."

Kate Middleton worked arsenic an adjunct accessories purchaser astatine nan clothing marque Jigsaw earlier marrying Prince William successful 2011. She past became a full-time royal, attending authorities dinners, conducting royal tours, and moreover mounting up her ain charitable foundation.

Kate's backstage moments person been extensively documented, from nan commencement of her 3 children to her crab test earlier this year.

She and different royals person agelong struggled pinch nan aggravated scrutiny, complaining astir property sum and occasionally taking ineligible action.

Speaking connected nan "Happy Mum, Happy Baby" podcast successful 2020, Kate said it was "terrifying" to shake hands nan public astatine a photograph telephone extracurricular nan infirmary steps aft nan commencement of her first child, Prince George, successful 2013.

Kate was heavily scrutinized for her prolonged absence from nationalist duties aft undergoing abdominal surgery successful January. Various theories — dubbed nan "Katespiracy" — swirled astir nan net until nan princess announced she was receiving treatment for cancer.

Meanwhile, Meghan was an character earlier she joined Prince Harry successful 2018. The duchess' accommodation to royal life wasn't easy, arsenic she was often nan taxable of online trolling and racist property coverage.

Speaking connected nan "Teenager Therapy" podcast successful 2020, Meghan said termed herself nan "most trolled personification successful nan full world" successful 2019.

The mates took a measurement backmost from royal duties successful 2020 and went connected to create their ain charitable instauration and accumulation company.

In a 2021 question and reply pinch Oprah Winfrey, Meghan said she had suicidal thoughts erstwhile she was a moving royal and that nan institution grounded to support her.

Buckingham Palace responded, appearing to mobility Meghan's recollection, but said nan issues we raised were still "taken very earnestly and will beryllium addressed by nan family privately."

Representatives for Mike Tindall and nan Duchess of Sussex declined to comment. Buckingham Palace did not respond to a petition for remark connected behalf of Kate.