The Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her third child on the bathroom floor as they didn't have time to go to hospital, her husband Mike has revealed.
The couple welcomed Lucas Philip Tindall, weighing 8lbs 4oz, on Sunday evening.
Mike announced the new arrive on his podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby and gave details of the dramatic birth at their Gatcombe Park home in Gloucestershire.
He surprised his co-stars with the news, saying: "Sunday got even better because a little baby boy arrived at my house.
"Arrived very quickly, didn't make it to hospital. On the bathroom floor."
Mike was tasked with running into the gym to grab a mat to put on the bathroom floor and getting towels, saying it was "brace, brace brace".
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Asked how hands on he was, Mike replied: "Fortunately, Zara's friend Dolly is actually more important than I am. She's been at all three of my children's births. She was there and recognised that we wouldn't have got to hospital in time."
Luckily medical help wasn't too far away. Mike explained: "The midwife who was going to meet us at the hospital wasn't that far away so she drove up, got there just we had assumed the position.
"The second midwife arrived just after the head arrived."
As Zara had been having contractions throughout the night, the couple had already sorted childcare for their two older children, Mia and Lena.
Mike said his wife "was a warrior" and and the couple went for a walk as a family on Tuesday morning.
Zara had her first baby, Mia, in hospital while her second, Lena, was born at a birth centre near their home.
Mike also admitted he was back to watching the rugby and golf with his little boy shortly after he was born.
He said: "The best thing about being at home was as soon as he's wrapped up it was skin to skin, I was straight downstairs, TV room, golf on."
After the news was officially announced on Wednesday morning, a statement from Buckingham Palace said: “The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news and look forward to meeting their 10th Great Grandchild when circumstances allow.”
At the time of recording, Mike and Zara hadn't picked the name.
Mike explains : "We've always struggled with [names], we've never picked one before they've arrived."
He said that Lena and Mia are "over the moon" and said that Lena is already trying to pick her little brother up.
