Zara Tindall and her husband Mike are the proud parents of three children – Mia, Lena and baby Lucas. The couple celebrated Mia’s eighth
birthday on Monday, but did you know that they picked a very modern way to
announce their children’s names after their births?
While announcements were shared by Buckingham Palace at the time of Mia
and Lena’s births in 2014 and 2018 respectively, former rugby star Mike took to
Twitter to confirm his daughter’s names.
Six days after he and wife Zara welcomed their first child on 17 January
2014, Mike tweeted: “For everyone who has asked what our daughters
name, it’s Mia Grace Tindall [SIC].”
And the sportsman also took to the social media platform to clarify the
pronunciation of his youngest daughter’s name after her birth on 18 June 2018.
When asked if it was pronounced as Lena or Leena, Mike replied in a
tweet: “Pronounced like Lay-na.”
And while a spokeswoman for the Tindalls shared the name of their third
child and son after his birth in March 2021, Mike broke the news of his son’s
arrival on his podcast, The Good, The Bad & The Rugby.
While Mike and Zara opted for names that they liked, rather than
traditional royal monikers, Lena’s middle name is Elizabeth, while Lucas’ is
Philip, in honour of their great-grandparents, the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh.
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Mike and Zara pictured with Mia and Lena in 2018
In another rare move, Lucas was christened alongside his second
cousin, August – son of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank – in a joint baptism in Windsor in
November.
Opening up about his son’s special day on
his podcast, Mike said at the time: “We had the christening on Sunday, it
was lovely. It was a lovely day.”
Asked by co-host Alex Payne if Lucas had enjoyed “dunking”,
Mike revealed that he had helped his son get ready for the big day by taking
him swimming earlier in the morning.
He added: “He did actually. I took him swimming in the morning, I
think I readied him for it, he was quite looking forward to it but then the
water was coming out…”
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Princess Eugenie shared the first photos of son August on Instagram
Mike and Zara aren’t the only royal parents to share news on social
media. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed they had welcomed a baby boy
on their now-defunct Instagram account @SussexRoyal in 2019, while Princess
Eugenie posted the first photos of baby August on her own personal account
following his birth in February 2021.
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi also confirmed the name of their
daughter Sienna and uploaded a photo of her footprints on social media when she
was born in September.
