LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter Zara Tindall and her husband, former rugby player, Mike Tindall, celebrate the birth of their third child, who was born on the bathroom floor at home after the couple were unable to a hospital on time.
Lucas Philip Tindall was born Sunday and weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, a representative for the couple said Wednesday. His middle name is in honor of both Mike Tindall’s father and Zara’s grandfather, Prince Philip. He is 22nd in line to the throne, but will not take the title of His Royal Highness.
Tindall, 42, revealed that the speed of the arrival of the newest royal baby – he is the queen’s tenth great-grandchild and Philip – took the couple by surprise and he had to rush to get a mat for his 39-year-old wife , who, like her mother, Princess Anne, enjoyed a successful equestrian career.
“So yeah he ran to the gym, grabbed a mat, go to the bathroom, put the mat on the floor, towels down, brace, brace, brace,” he said on the podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby .
The latest addition to the Tindall family is a younger brother of 7-year-old Mia and 2-year-old Lena, who were not at home at the time of the delivery. Tindall said Dolly, his wife’s boyfriend, who had also attended the previous two deliveries, was present.
“She was there and realized we wouldn’t be in the hospital on time,” he said. “Fortunately, the midwife who was to meet us at the hospital was not that far away, so she drove just as we assumed the position and the second midwife arrived just after the chief arrived.”
Tindall joked that this may be the right time for him to have a vasectomy.
“I literally thought, ‘Yeah, cut, cut, cut.’ I’ve got a boy. I’m gone. I’m out of here, “he said.” The best thing about home, the best thing was, once he’s wrapped up, he’s skin to skin, straight down. TV Room. Golf on. This is what we do. “
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