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Mike Tindall said Prince Louis's scene-stealing antics at the Jubilee Pageant were due to a sugar high.

The 43-year-old former rugby player opened up about the celebrations on his podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, which he presents alongside former teammate James Haskell and TV presenter Alex Payne.

The sportsman, who is married to Zara Tindall, 41, made headlines after he gave the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's youngest son a playful stare down during the pageant on Sunday.

Prince Louis, four, put on an animated display, pretending to be a lion, bickering with his cousins and even sticking his tongue out to his mother Kate Middleton, 40. 

Speaking on the podcast, Tindall sympathised with Louis, saying the pageant had been long for the little royal, and that all the royal children suffered a 'sugar high' from eating sweets.