Mike Tindall’s surprising first bonding experience with baby Lucas

Zara and Mike Tindall are the proud mother and father of three kids – Mia, aged 10, Lena, aged 5, and Lucas, aged three.

Though Princess Anne's daughter, 43, gave delivery to her daughters in a hospital as per fashionable custom, Lucas' delivery in 2021 was not precisely what his mom, not to mention royal followers, had anticipated.

The royal household's third little one was born on the lavatory ground of the household house on the Gatcombe Park property in Gloucestershire. The doting father and former rugby star spoke about Lucas' dramatic delivery on his podcast The Good, The Unhealthy and The Rugby.

“Sunday was even higher as a result of I had slightly child boy come house,” Mike mentioned, including that Lucas “got here actually early. Didn't make it to the hospital. Laying on the lavatory ground.”

Mike recalled, “Yeah, operating to the fitness center, getting the mat, going to the lavatory, placing the mat on the ground, laying out towels, brace, brace, brace.” He added that Zara's pal Dolly, who was there, recognised that the royal mom wouldn't have been capable of make it to the hospital.

“Fortunately, the midwife who came visiting us on the hospital wasn't too distant, so she arrived simply after we took cost, and the opposite midwife arrived simply after the chief did.”

Not solely did Mike share the story of Lucas' sudden delivery in unprecedented element, however he additionally revealed his stunning first bonding expertise along with his son, which made the unplanned house delivery much more constructive.

“One of the best factor about being at house was as quickly as he was dressed, he went straight downstairs. Within the TV room. Taking part in golf. That's what we have been doing,” the daddy of three mentioned.

In 2020 Mike spoke on the identical podcast about his daughter Mia wanting one other sibling. On the time, the rugby participant mentioned: “She could be pleased with that, she’s been asking for an additional sister or brother, so hopefully we’ve fulfilled that position for her.

“She desires one thing completely different now, Lena is getting older, she's two-and-a-half years outdated now, she desires one thing that's smaller and that she will be able to play with and enhance.”

Zara and Mike's bond with their three kids is clearly evident. The loving mother and father are heat to their kids in public and bathe them with plenty of affection.

Photographer James Whatling, who specialises in documenting the royal household, instructed Howdy!: “There are many photographs, usually of Zara hugging and kissing them – they appear to be a really tactile household, which could be very pretty.

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“He's a mini model of Mike,” says James, speaking about little Lucas. The lovable pup is already an everyday on the Pageant of British Eventing. “He's at all times getting twisted up, getting coated in mud, messing round along with his sisters – he's simply born into it,” says James. “Lucas is an actual Tindall.