Just before Christmas 2016, Zara Tindall – Princess Anne’s daughter – lost her second pregnancy. It was a second-trimester miscarriage which came just a month after Zara and Mike Tindall had announced the pregnancy. Zara and Mike seemed pretty devastated about the whole experience. Their first child, Mia, had been a difficult pregnancy for Zara and I got the feeling that the Tindalls really just wanted one more child and then they would be done. Well, here’s one piece of good news for the start of 2018: Zara and Mike are expecting again!
Looks like Kate Middleton‘s not the only one expecting a royal baby! Zara Tindall, Queen Elizabeth‘s granddaughter and the daughter of Princess Anne, is pregnant, a spokesperson for the couple told the U.K.’s Press Association on Friday.
It’ll be Zara’s second child with husband and rugby star Mike Tindall. The couple are parents to 3-year-old daughter Mia Tindall. The happy news comes one year after Zara revealed she suffered a miscarriage just days before Christmas in December 2016.
Mia is known for stealing the show — getting cuddles and kisses from Zara’s cousin Prince Harry at polo events and happily displaying great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II’s purse during official photo shoots. She was also there to help her parents during the difficult time following Zara’s miscarriage last year.
“The saving grace for us has been Mia, our daughter who is now 3,” Mike told The Sunday Times in May. “However down we feel she will come running up in our faces. When I was playing I hardly saw her; now we can see her grow up. I can take her swimming and I can take her to Ninja Tots. You’ll never be able to see her there because she disappears in a puff of smoke.”
In case you couldn’t tell, I think Mia is a total daddy’s girl. He’s a very hands-on father and he’s insisting that Mia be raised more like normal, un-royal kids. Like, he refuses to send her away to a boarding school when she’s older. I kind of hope they have another girl, just because I think Mike is really great with Mia and he would enjoy having another little princess around the house. Congrats to Mike and Zara – I’m rooting for them!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Happy to say I was wrong last week when I speculated she wasn’t expecting!
Great news; so that’s 2 new great-grandkids for The Queen in 2018. Hopefully another one in 2019 from Harry & Meghan.
Good for them. I love seeing Mia romping about. I saw pics of them in Australia over the holiday, and I am glad that my speculation was correct!
Good for them! I have a friend who lost triplets the day they were born far too prematurely, and after having her Celiac disease diagnosed, got pregnant naturally and was scared. To. Death. She wrote about pregnancy after loss and it resonated with so many people, it opened my eyes to what a nerve-wracking experience it can be to be pregnant again. Wishing them joy, rest and peace of mind!
Congrats to them – I like these 2, he always seem nonplussed about his wife’s family. Wasn’t it William or Harry that introduced them at a Rugby event?
Harry at a bar in Australia. Zara admitted it in an interview, and that Mike was drunk at the time and drowning his sorrows over not being on the squad anymore.
Congrats to them! They seem like a lovely family
Wishing them the best
Such good news! I wish them all the best.
I adore the whole Phillips clan — the best of the lot!
Congrats to her and her husband–they seem like parents who love being parents!
So happy for the Tindalls. I thought Zara was pregnant because of the pictures on the DM while she was in Australia during Christmas.
Congrats! Hoping for the very best for them. Nobody deserves to lose a child. I can’t think of something worse.
Fingers crossed and God Bless!