Zara Phillips marry Mike Tindall

Zara Phillips ties the knot today with strapping rugby hero Mike Tindall – and it’s already clear who wears the trousers.

The Queen’s 30-year-old granddaughter banned 6ft 2in Mike from training in case he suffered a shiner and ruined the wedding snaps.

So it’s a pity best man Iain Balshaw was still sporting a sore-looking shiner from a recent moped accident in France during yesterday’s wedding rehearsal at 17th century Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh.

England captain Lewis Moody revealed Zara’s training ban at a charity event in aid of HopeHiv on Thursday. At the fundraiser, called An Evening with Lewis, Simon, Jamie and Ben, Lewis said: “Mike didn’t play today – he’s afraid he’s going to get a black eye for the wedding. The missus is in charge.”

He added: “There’ll be loads of us going to the wedding. ”

Players from England and Gloucester Rugby Club will be mingling with royal guests, including Prince William and Kate, Prince Harry and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

Then it’s all back to the Queen’s Holyroodhouse for a party. But for the bride-to-be, the celebrations started three days ago. Zara, who will wear a stunning Stewart Parvin ivory dress, was spotted clubbing at Edinburgh’s swanky Tigerlily hotel and later in its Lulu bar, on Thursday.

This wedding won't be a lavish feast for royal watchers, however. "It's a private family wedding," said a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman. "We're not giving out any details."

That said, here are some details. They'll say their vows at Canongate Kirk, the parish church of Edinburgh Castle, with a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the queen's official residence in Scotland. Phillips and Tindall, as well as Princess Anne, were photographed Friday leaving the church after their rehearsal. Zara had also been spotted earlier in the week getting a rare-for-her spa treatment, and some business-as-usual exercise.

That's a bit different than the wedding seen round the world in April -- that of Prince Charles' son Prince William to Kate Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Being closer to the front of the line for the throne does have its implications, among them a million people hanging around in the streets for your big day.

Phillips, 30, the daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband Mark Phillips, has long been considered one of the most down-to-earth members of the royal family. The successful equestrian has no royal title. Tindall, 32, plays rugby.

According to the Daily Mail, guests are expected to include Queen Elizabeth II and most of the royal family -- the Tindall family hasn't yet met the queen -- and many sports figures, including a former England rugby player as best man.

Zara Phillips partying prewedding to Mike Tindall

Zara Phillips, this afternoon – grand-daughter of the Queen, cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and niece of the Prince of Wales – will wed her rugby-playing boyfriend, Mike Tindall. They travelled from their home in Cheltenham to Edinburgh yesterday, to be married by the Rev Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate Kirk and domestic chaplain to the Queen in Scotland. Afterwards, they will celebrate with a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Not that you’d know it.

While the world and its dog knew every detail of the royal wedding – you know, that one, at Westminster Abbey, with the cartwheeling verger and the sister with the bottom – it seems as if this one could pass off without so much as a street party. There will be no need to erect a giant box to accommodate the world’s media, as happened outside Buckingham Palace last April. There will be no bank holiday, and barely any squealing monarchists who have camped out all week to catch a fleeting glimpse of the newly married couple – they can’t, because the streets surrounding the church are too narrow. Granted, a ring of steel will be thrown around the city, but one would expect that at an event attended by the Queen (and the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, stepping out in public for the first time since their triumphant tour of North America).

Mr Tindall, who plays rugby for England and is the captain of Gloucester, is thought to be wearing a kilt. But even the news that Zara is to wear a gown designed by Stewart Parvin, one of the Queen’s favourite couturiers, barely registered on the radar of journalists who salivated over every rumour concerning what Kate Middleton might wear, before combusting in excitement when we finally saw it was Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.

Zara has been able to go for jogs and facials relatively unmolested by paparazzi. 

This week she was photographed near her home wearing a tracksuit, a garment that would have caused the world to topple off its axis had it been worn by the Duchess of Cambridge in the run-up to her wedding.

England captain Lewis Moody revealed Zara’s training ban at a charity event in aid of HopeHiv on Thursday. At the fundraiser, called An Evening with Lewis, Simon, Jamie and Ben, Lewis said: “Mike didn’t play today – he’s afraid he’s going to get a black eye for the wedding. The missus is in charge.”

He added: “There’ll be loads of us going to the wedding. ”

Players from England and Gloucester Rugby Club will be mingling with royal guests, including Prince William and Kate, Prince Harry and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

Then it’s all back to the Queen’s Holyroodhouse for a party. But for the bride-to-be, the celebrations started three days ago. Zara, who will wear a stunning Stewart Parvin ivory dress, was spotted clubbing at Edinburgh’s swanky Tigerlily hotel and later in its Lulu bar, on Thursday.

She followed it up with a boozy three-hour breakfast with 10 female friends in the five-star Balmoral Hotel, where 300 of the 400 wedding guests are staying.

Zara’s group – including Natalie Pinkham, Sky Sports presenter Di Dougherty and brother Peter’s wife Autumn Kelly – sank six bottles of £95-a-pop pink champagne. She told them: “I’m nervous, excited but very happy.” She also admitted she’d been texting Mike that very morning as he celebrated with his rugby pals including Lewis, Iain and Ben Foden.

In the early evening they met up for their dressed-down wedding rehearsal – Zara in jeans and a striped top, Mike, 32, in a white shirt and torn denims.

They kissed after spending an hour in the Kirk being put through their paces by Rev Neil Gardner, watched by Princess Anne and her husband Tim Lawrence, and Zara’s father Mark Phillips.

Then last night, Zara and Mike held a drinks party on the Royal Yacht Britannia, moored at nearby Leith. Close friends and family – including Prince William and Kate, who wore the emerald number first seen on her trip to LA earlier this month – saw the sun set to the strains of a jazz band.

Florence Brudenell-Bruce: Prince Harry

Prince Harry, the rough-and-tumble brother of the recently wed Prince William, is dating lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce. Or, rather, meeting Brudenell-Bruce for a series of "secret trysts."

This despite Harry's recent assertion that he's "100 percent single," he's apparently been spotted making time with Brudenell-Bruce and spending time at her Notting Hill home.

And, because stuff like this apparently figures into tabloid gossip in London, comely young Florence is "a descendant of the seventh Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade." Which obviously makes her way more attractive than, say, some lingerie model whose ancestors merely churned butter or were pressed into service in the Royal Navy.

in reality, he's reportedly with Florence Brudenell-Bruce, an underwear model who could hold her (hot!) own against Kate's cute sister.

The two have been friends for years, sources tell The Daily Mail, with an insider saying:

"It's very early, but Harry and Florence are an item. "She is a lot of fun, blonde and very good looking. Harry really likes her."

Brudenell-Bruce is a descendant of the seventh Earl of Cardigan. As we all know, he led the Charge of the Light Brigade on October 25, 1854.

Prince Harry's trysts with his new love:Queen approve

Family tree showed that blue-blooded blonde Florence Brudenell-Bruce, 25, is an eighth cousin of the 26-year-old royal.

Brudenell-Bruce's links to Harry, Princess Diana and even Prince Charles' second wife, Camilla, can be traced back to the 18th century.

A family tree revealed that as well as being an eighth cousin of her new beau, she is also a distant cousin of both Diana and Camilla.

The common factor in the aristocratic web is the Honourable Sir Edward Walpole, the son of Britain's first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole.

Sir Edward, who died in 1784, had a daughter, Maria, who married into the royal family.

Queen’s grandson has been secretly seeing lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce for four weeks, it has emerged.

Harry’s seven-year on-off relationship with Zimbabwean-born Chelsy Davy has finally come to an end. And the Apache helicopter pilot has just ‘started dating’ 25-year-old Miss Brudenell-Bruce, sources confirmed, with private trysts thought to have taken place at her £400,000 Notting Hill flat, in West London.

The pair seem to have plenty in common – including family. They are, in fact, eighth cousins.

One might argue that anyone who has the name Florence Anne-Marie Brudenell-Bruce bestowed upon them has a certain obligation to live up to such a splendid moniker. To her credit, the lady in question has dutifully endeavoured to do just that in her 25 years.

She has dated the Formula 1 racing driver Jenson Button, she has starred in a Bollywood movie, she has posed for risqué modelling shots in her underwear and even lain herself on a mortuary slab in the name of art for a forthcoming episode of TV detective drama Lewis.

She is beautiful – how could a woman with such a title be plain? – aristocratic and impeccably mannered – and to her friends, she is known as ‘Flee’, which suggests a spiritual, otherworldly dimension to her character.

It is doubtful that anyone who knows her is remotely surprised to learn, if reports are correct, that she is stepping out with Prince Harry. The only surprise might be that it has taken her so long to land him.

Last week, at a posh pre-Wimbledon party, Florence confirmed she had split from her latest boyfriend, Henry St George, who like Flee, sounds like a character from a Barbara Cartland novel.

Bomb found near Dublin ahead of UK Queen's visit

LONDON — A bomb was defused near Dublin ahead of a historic state visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth to Ireland starting Tuesday, Irish police said.

"A viable explosive device was found on a bus yesterday evening in Maynooth," near Dublin, a spokesman said, adding that police had been tipped off by an anonymous call.

The device was defused by the Irish army, he said.

The queen will visit amid a massive security lockdown after the threat of Irish republican terrorism resurfaced with a coded bomb threat in London.

The historic four-day trip, the first by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland since it gained independence from London in 1922, is a landmark moment aimed at normalising relations between the two neighbouring states.

It was found in the town of Maynooth, 25 km (15 miles) from Dublin and blown up by an army bomb disposal unit in a controlled explosion, the military said. The remains of the device were handed over to police for investigation.

Police later said the army's bomb squad was investigating a second suspicious device found at a Dublin tram station.

Peace in Northern Ireland after decades of conflict has paved the way for the Queen's four-day stay, but there will be constant reminders of a violent past during her visit.

he Aras dates back to 1751 and used to house the viceroys who oversaw British rule in Ireland. Queen Victoria and King George V stayed there while visiting.

George V, Queen Elizabeth's grandfather, was the last British monarch to visit, 100 years ago.

Following talks, the queen and the president head straight for one of the most sensitive moments of the trip -- a visit to the Garden of Remembrance, dedicated to "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom".

Both McAleese and Queen Elizabeth will lay wreaths and the national anthems of both states will be played.

Republican demonstrators will be kept far from the scene, with many of the surrounding roads completely screened off.

The couple's final engagement Tuesday will be to visit Trinity College, one of Europe's finest universities, where they will view the Book of Kells, a ninth century gospel manuscript.

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Bomb threat on eve of Queen's visit to Ireland

LONDON: Police received a bomb threat for central London from Irish republican paramilitaries, a day before a historic visit by the Queen to Ireland, Scotland Yard said.

''A bomb threat warning has been received relating to central London today. The threat is not specific in relation to location or time,'' a Scotland Yard spokesman said yesterday.

''We believe the threat is in connection with dissident republican terrorism.''

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Police closed a major road leading to Buckingham Palace for several hours but a search found nothing suspicious, while there was also a controlled explosion of a suitcase nearby.

The idea of armed British officers operating in Ireland was initially ruled out, but the Irish government has agreed to let 120 Metropolitan Police officers carry guns. It is the first time a British monarch has visited Ireland since 1911 and the city centre will be turned into a car-free zone to prevent car bombs.

Republican terrorists have pledged to disrupt the tour.

The first day of the visit coincides with the 37th anniversary of the bloodiest day of the Troubles, in which 34 people were killed in four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan.

Irish police will have to deal with attempts by the radical republican group Eirigi to occupy the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, the memorial to Irish people killed in the struggle for independence, where the Queen is due to lay a wreath today. The group has threatened to set up a ''freedom camp'' in the memorial garden .

Mrs McAleese said the trip was emblematic of the progress that has been made between the two countries. Her comments came as unprecedented steps were taken to ensure all runs smoothly.

She said: ''[It is] a phenomenal sign and signal of the success of the peace process and absolutely the right moment for us to welcome on to Irish soil her majesty the Queen, the head of state of our immediate next-door neighbours.''

The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, said the Queen should expect a warm reception from the majority of people.