After marrying one of rugby’s cheekiest chappies, Zara Tindall figured she’d seen her fair share of laddish behaviour. Not to mention that her father, Captain Mark Phillips, had got up to some questionable hijinks of his own, resulting in a Kiwi half-sister for Zara and her brother Peter.
However, her 73-year-old dad proved he was still able to shock his family when he unveiled his new girlfriend, Belgian equestrienne Florence Standaert, who is thought to be around Zara’s age and is also a dead ringer for her.
“When Zara met Florence, it was like looking in the mirror,” says a friend of the 41-year-old. “They look the same, they
