Mr and Mrs Tindall earn a fortune... without the help of royal titles

 

 * Olympic silver medal-winning eventer rakes in estimated   £1m a year from sponsorship

• Couple sold first pictures of their baby, Mia Grace, for about £40,000

• Sold their five-bedroom home in Cheltenham for £1.27m, having bought it for £800,000 in 2009

• Tindall, 35, earns salary at Gloucester Rugby Club, where he is player-coach, and is ambassador for brokers UFXMarkets and Artemis Fund Managers

• Zara is paid six-figure sum to lend her name to video game Howrse, in which players own, train and compete on a virtual horse 

 

 With no HRH to her name – and no state funding to match – she’s the royal who has had to make her own way in the world.

 

Now it can be revealed just how well Zara Phillips has managed – with a little help from her rugby playing husband, of course.

 

By capitalising on her royal background, the Olympic silver medal-winning eventer rakes in an estimated £1million a year from sponsorship.

 

And with her husband – former England rugby captain Mike Tindall, who earns a six-figure sum every year – Miss Phillips has made a small fortune from property and letting deals.

 

And then there are the lucrative celebrity magazine shoots. Most recently they sold the first pictures of their baby, Mia Grace, for an estimated £40,000.

 

Last year, Zara and her husband sold their five-bedroom home in Cheltenham for £1.27million, having bought it for £800,000 in 2009, making a profit of nearly £500,000.

 

They have now moved into a property on Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Park estate, where Zara has stables and trains her horses. It is not known whether they own the cottage or pay any rent for it.

 

Tindall himself still owns a £400,000 three-bedroom flat in a Georgian terrace in the centre of Bath, which he rents out for around £1,500 per month. 

 

And he owns a £300,000 three-bedroom flat in Dubai, which he also lets. 

Experts suggest that it could treble in price by 2020, leaving him with a £600,000 profit should he choose to sell.

 

Tindall, 35, earns a salary at Gloucester Rugby Club, where he is a player-coach, and for his roles as an ambassador for brokers UFXMarkets and Artemis Fund Managers.

 

He also has a company, Kimble Trading, of which he is the sole director and shareholder, which had £257,000 in the bank in 2008 and has made a relatively modest £197,000 over the last five years.

He owns a quarter-share in racehorse Monbeg Dude, which has won £120,000 in prize money and is worth more than £200,000, and he has invested bonuses earned during the height of his professional success on the stock market.

However, it is his wife who is the breadwinner. 

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It's not the first time Zara has been spotted successfully balancing her parenting duties with her racing.
 

Last month she and her husband Mike Tindall took baby daughter Mia to the Salperton Park Horse Trials in Gloucestershire.
 

In the adorable pictures taken at the trials, Zara was seen carefully positioning an ice cream cone in her mouth whilst holding up the five-month-old.
 

Husband Tindall took over watching their daughter so that Zara, daughter of Princess Anne and granddaughter of The Queen, could compete at the event.

 

Source: the Hello