Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, welcomed the latest royal baby – giving birth at home on the bathroom floor.
Lucas Philip Tindall was born on Sunday, weighing 8 pounds and 120 grams, a representative for the couple said on Wednesday.
He “arrived very quickly – he couldn’t get to the hospital – on the bathroom floor,” Lucas’s father, former English rugby star Mike Tindall, revealed in a podcast he co-host.
He said that “fortunately” his wife’s friend was there to help, and his midwife arrived home just in time for the delivery.
“She appeared in the same way that we had assumed the pose [position] and the second midwife arrived right after the head arrived, “he recalled in” The Good, the Bad and the Rugby “.
“I literally was like, ‘Yes, cut, cut, cut’. I got a boy. I’m out, ”joked the 42-year-old father. “The best thing about being at home … as soon as he is wrapped up, he is skin to skin, straight down. TV room. Play golf, ”he said.
Lucas is the tenth great-grandson of the Queen and Prince Philip. His middle name is a tribute to the 99-year-old great-grandfather and also to Mike’s father, the palace said.
He is the 22nd in line to the throne, but will not receive the title of His Royal Highness. He is the third child of Queen Zara Tindell’s 38-year-old granddaughter, born Phillips, joining seven-year-old Mia and two-year-old Lena.
“The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news and are looking forward to meeting their tenth great-grandson when circumstances permit,” a spokesman for Buckingham Palace told The Times of London.
