Sign up to our free email to get all the latest royal news and pictures We have more newsletters Sign up to our free email to get all the latest royal news and pictures We have more newsletters Zara Tindall and her husband Mike , 42, were over the moon as they welcomed their baby boy Lucas Philip Tindall into the world on March 21, 2021. But, in a surprising turn of events, Zara gave birth at home "on the bathroom floor" as they couldn't get to the hospital in time due to the swift nature of her labour. Mike shared the exciting news at the time on his rugby podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, where he exclaimed: "Arrived very quickly.
Didn't make it to hospital. On the bathroom floor." He described the whirlwind experience: "So yeah, it was running to the gym, get a mat, get into the bathroom, get the mat on the floor, towels down, brace, brace, brace.
" Sign up to OK!'s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free He continued with the details: "Fortunately the midwife who was going to meet us at the hospital wasn't that far away so she drove up just as we had assumed the posit [position] and the second midwife arrived just after the head had arrived," reports the Express . The couple, who already have two daughters, Lena, two, and Mia, six, experienced their first homebirth with Lucas. While Zara's unexpected home delivery might seem unconventional, it actually revived a royal tradition once observed by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen herself had her .
