Queen Elizabeth’s new great-grandson apparently couldn’t wait to be born

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 failed to arrive to a hospital in time.

Lucas Philip Tindall was born on Sunday, weighing 8 pounds and 120 grams, a representative for the couple said on Wednesday. Its middle name is a tribute to Mike Tindall’s father and Zara’s grandfather, Prince Philip. He is the 22nd in line to the throne, but will not receive the title of His Royal Highness.

Tindall, 42, revealed that the speed of the arrival of the last royal baby – he is the tenth great-grandson of the queen and Philip – caught the couple off guard and that he had to run to get a rug for his 39-year-old son. wife, who like her mother, Princess Anne, had a successful equestrian career.

“So, yes, it was running to the gym, picking up a rug, going into the bathroom, laying the rug on the floor, fallen towels, brace, brace, brace,” he said on the podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby.

The newest addition to the Tindall family is a younger brother to Mia, 7, and Lena, 2, who were not at home at the time of birth. Tindall said that his wife’s friend Dolly, who was also in the previous two births, was present.

“She was there and acknowledged that we would not have made it to the hospital in time,” he said. “Fortunately, the midwife who was going to meet us at the hospital was not that far away, so she drove exactly when we had assumed the position (position) and the second midwife arrived just after the head arrived.”

Tindall joked that now may be the right time for him to have a vasectomy.

“I literally was like, ‘Yes, cut, cut, cut’. I got a boy. I am out. I’m out of here, ”he said. “The best thing about being at home, the best thing is that as soon as it is wrapped, there is skin to skin, down there. TV room. Play golf. This is what we are doing ”.