Zara Tindall shared some candid comments about what life is really like as a member of the British royal family from an insider’s perspective.

“It is very hard to see from the outside but, 100%, it is a family that is still going through the same struggles other people do,” Zara said, per The Sun, while speaking at a London Sporting Club luncheon last week. “Whether they are relationships, obviously it is very easy to see every day. We’re still very supportive of each other.”

The daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, Zara also spoke candidly about the loss of the family matriarch, Queen Elizabeth II. “We had a very incredible person to look up to who is sadly not here any more,” Zara said. “She was amazing and an inspiration to all of us.”

Queen Elizabeth died on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96. Having marked her Platinum Jubilee earlier in the year, celebrating the 70th year of her reign, Elizabeth ruled longer than any other English monarch in history.

Zara honored her grandmother in the naming of her second daughter, Lena Elizabeth, upon her birth in 2018. She also praised her on many occasions, including for her leadership during the pandemic lockdowns in 2020. “We’re obviously very proud, and what she said is completely 100% what the country needed,” Zara said at the time.

Queen Elizabeth and Zara Tindall at the 2015 Royal Ascot.

An Olympic equestrian like her mother, Zara and her brother, Peter Phillips, remain in the line of succession despite not holding royal titles, which their parents chose to forgo at birth.

Both siblings are seen quite frequently with other members of the royal family. In March, for example, Zara and Princess Anne joined Princess Eugenie as well as Queen Camilla and her family at the annual Cheltenham Festival in Gloucestershire. In April, Zara and her husband Mike Tindall joined Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice and their husbands at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix. Peter also brought his young daughters Savannah, 14, and Isla, 13.

However, like the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, Zara and Mike Tindall did not attend Easter Sunday services with the royal family this year.

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