Mike Tindall has opened up about how the royal family have dealt with the Queen's death in an emotional interview.
In a special episode of his podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, the former rugby staff said his wife Zara Tindall and the rest of the Queen's loved ones "came together" immediately after the Monarch passed earlier this month.
Mike is married to the Queen's granddaughter, Zara Tindall, and attended several events with the Monarch - both publicly and privately. They were often seen laughing and joking at horseracing events, for which they shared a joint passion.
During the interview, Mike said: "It's been sad, emotional but happy. In some ways amazing. To see the family come so close together overnight.
"You never predict it. A 96-year-old lady, you know it's going to happen but you're never ready for when it does.
"Watching what Zara had to go through, obviously she loved the Queen beyond everything else. Their connection with horses, they had a real bond around that.
"It's like the world has lost its grandmother in some way."
He also reflected on his funeral, saying the guest list showed how were respected she was.
During the chat, which comes ahead of the new series of the podcast which drops tomorrow, he recalled meeting the Queen in 1992 when he was at school - with no knowledge that he would one day marry into her family.
In the days after his wife's grandmother's death, Mike took to Instagram to share two moving tributes to the Queen.
The first showed the Sydney Opera House with a photo of the late Queen projected on the side, and the second a sketch of a tearful corgi.
The Queen passed away in Balmoral on September 8. In the days that followed, members of the royal family took place in a number of engagements and met well-wishers.
Zara joined her mum Princess Anne to view tributes outside the Castle, looking emotional as she stood side-by-side with her cousins and uncles to see hundreds of bunches of flowers.
She also joined her cousins for the Grandchildren's Vigil, which say the Queen's eight grandchildren standing around the coffin as she Lay in State in Westminster Abbey.
