By Daily Mail Reporter


Zara Phillips and her fiance Mike Tindall outside their Gloucestershire home as they announced their engagement recently


It even has its own profile on Facebook - but Mike Tindall has revealed Princess Anne has asked him to get his nose straightened before his wedding.

Tindall told producers and crew on the set of Sky 1 sports quiz A League Of Their Own that his Royal mother-in-law-to-be had expressed her fears about how the wedding photographs might look.

'Princess Anne asked me if I'd have the surgery,' he admitted. But he says that after corrective nasal surgery earlier in his career he is unlikely to go under the knife again.


Tindall is set to marry 29-year-old Zara Phillips in July and while she may be trying out new looks for the wedding with a new haircut, he says he is 'not keen' to repeat his first experience of nose surgery.

The rugby ace has broken his nose eight times so far in his 12-year career, and his olfactory organ has been the subject of many a light-hearted discussion among his team mates.

They have a nickname for the hefty Lancashire player which is reputedly unprintable, and once Tindall's nose was described as 'a relief map of the Pennines'

The news that Princess Anne had asked him to have corrective surgery so he would look better at the wedding was picked up Twitter, with one fan of the player tweeting, 'Couldn't his nose just be airbrushed in the Wedding photos?'

Princess Anne with her daughter Zara and Mike Tindall... before she asked him to get a nose job


Zara, 29, is clearly not bothered about her fiance's nose. The couple announced their engagement in January, two months after Prince William announced his engagement to Kate Middleton.

Zara and Tindall were introduced to each other by her cousin Harry at a bar in Sydney, Australia in 2002.

Last year, the couple bought a £800,000 house together in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which is where Tindall proposed.

Opposites attract: Rugged Mike Tindall gears up for Twickenham next Sunday, while Zara shows off her sleek new 'do at a charity function last week


Posing together in casual attire outside their house in deep snow, she said: ‘I was really shocked when Mike proposed but I am very happy.'

Tindall added: 'I am delighted that Zara has agreed to marry me. We are both very excited about the next stage in our lives together.’

It's safe to say that in the days leading up to the couple's wedding in July, all eyes will be on that famous conk.



Source:dailymail