The daughter of Princess Anne and one of the oldest grandchildren of the late Queen Elizabeth, Zara Tindall is well known for being one of the less formal members of the Royal Family. Despite being very close with her uncle King Charles and the rest of the senior royals, Zara doesn't have a title and has never been a working member of the Firm, which has allowed her more freedom to be herself on the public stage.
This includes opting to get a piercing when she was just 17 years old, and whilst that might be usual fare for a normal teenager, for a member of the Royal Family, it was a pretty daring choice.
As reported in Hello Magazine, Zara was spotted sporting a tongue piercing - which may not be the usual fare the public expects to see from the famously formal royals - when she was just 17 years old, back in 1998. Zara was first seen with the daring accessory at her uncle King Charles' 50th birthday - however by the following year, the magazine reports, the tongue piercing was gone.
Zara is said to have gotten the piercing at a tattoo studio near the Scottish boarding school she attended, Gordonstoun - which was also attended by the King and the late Prince Philip, who was one of the boarding school's very first pupils after it opened.
Zara phillips showing her tongue piercing sep 2001"At least I didn't have it coming out of my nose, or anything," Zara said to Tatler Magazine years later in 2011, discussing her teenage style choice, and it has been reported that Princess Anne didn't mind her daughter's metallic accessory at all. The Princess Royal, "unfazed by [Zara's] shocking new look, simply [asked] if her daughter could speak properly with her piercing."
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Zara and her mother have always been close, and she currently lives on Anne's Gatcombe Park Estate, alongside her husband former England rugby player Mike. Tindall and their three children: Mia, Lena, and Lucas.
The couple reportedly lives in a 700-acre property, Aston Farm, that sits in Anne's Cotswolds estate, and the seven-bedroom renovated farmhouse is said to boast its own home cinema, gym and games room. Also living in the "royal enclave with discreet security" - per Vogue Australia - is Zara's older brother Peter Phillips and his two children Savannah and Isla, meaning the whole family is pretty close-knit.
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