AFTER Mike Tindall married into the Royal Family,

he said it was ‘important’ that he and his wife, the Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips, earned their own money. ‘It annoys me when people think we get handed things on a plate, because we don’t,’ he said. And the former England rugby captain, who works as a pundit, has shown he is good on his word not to live off taxpayers. Newly published accounts for Kimble Trading Ltd, the company into which he channels his earnings, disclose profits of £405,000 — an increase of £100,000 on the previous year.