LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, and her husband, former rugby player Mike Tindall, are celebrating the birth of their third child, who was born at home on the bathroom floor after the couple could not get to a hospital on time.
Lucas Philip Tindall was born on Sunday, weighing 8 pounds and 4 ounces, a couple representative said Wednesday. His middle name is in honor of both Mike Tindall’s father and Zara’s grandfather, Prince Philip. He is the 22nd in a row on the throne, but will not take the title of His Royal Highness.
Tindall, 42, revealed that the speed of the arrival of the last royal baby – the queen’s and Philip’s tenth great-grandson – surprised the couple and that he had to run to find a mat for his 39th birthday. wife, who like her mother, Princess Anne, enjoyed a successful equestrian career.
“So yeah, I was running to the gym, grabbing a mat, going into the bathroom, grabbing the mat on the floor, towels down, arm, arm, arm,” he said on the podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby.
The new addition to the Tindall family is a younger brother of Mia, 7, and Lena, 2, who were not home at the time of birth. Tindall said his wife’s friend Dolly, who was also in the previous two parties, was present.
“She was there and acknowledged that we would not have arrived at the hospital on time,” she said. “Fortunately, the midwife who was going to meet us at the hospital was not that far away, so she got in the car when we had taken up the position and the second midwife arrived just after the boss arrived.”
Tindall joked that now may be the right time for him to have a vasectomy.
“I was literally like, ‘Yes, cut, cut, break.’ I have a boy. I’m out. I’m out of here,” he said. “The best thing about being at home, the best thing was that as soon as “It would have been wrapped, it would have been skin on the skin, all down. TV room. Golf on. That’s what we’re doing.”
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