Mike Tindall opens up about wife Zara’s first miscarriage after the birth of her daughter Mia and says it’s a ‘terrible journey for mothers’ because they think ‘it’s their fault’

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Mike Tindall has opened up about his wife Zara’s first miscarriage and said ‘it’s a terrible journey for mothers as they look at themselves like it’s their fault’.

The former England Rugby international, 44, and his 42-year-old wife, who is the King’s niece, revealed in December 2016 that a pregnancy announced the previous month had ended in a miscarriage. They had welcomed daughter Mia in 2014.

Two years later in an interview with the Sunday Times, Zara discussed the devastation of losing the baby and revealed she had suffered a second miscarriage before falling pregnant with daughter Lena, now five. 

The couple, who were married in 2011 and live on Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire, also share two-year-old son Lucas. 

In a wide-ranging interview with The Times, Mike revealed how suffering a miscarriage is ‘difficult when you first go through it and being as late as it was – five months’ but that the ‘best thing’ for him and Zara was that it wasn’t their first child.

Mike Tindall has opened up about his wife Zara’s first miscarriage and said ‘it’s a terrible journey for mothers as they look at themselves like it’s their fault’. Pictured, Mike, Zara, and their daughters Mia and Lena in April 2023

‘So to get home from the hospital and Mia is there with a smile on her face, you put all your love into her,’ he explained. ‘If we’d have gone home to an empty house, that would have been a completely different scenario.’

He added: ‘We had to go out there and tell everyone we had lost a baby… The life we lead means we had to announce it publicly. It’s a terrible journey for mothers; they look at themselves like it’s their fault.’

Speaking about her experience in the Sunday Times in 2018, Zara said the hardest part of her first miscarriage was having to tell the world because news of the pregnancy had been made public.

Zara said: ‘In our case, it was something that was really rare; it was nature saying, ”This one’s not right.” I had to go through having the baby because it was so far along.’

The equestrian champion, who was named Sports Personality of the Year in 2006, said her older brother Peter Phillips was very ‘protective’ of her and ‘concerned’, as was her husband Mike when she had to go through it again. 

It’s not clear when Zara’s miscarriage occurred, but it would have happened between December 2016 and October 2017 when she fell pregnant with Lena.

‘Everyone was. It was a time when my family came to the fore and I needed them,’ she said. She added: ‘It’s hard for the guys, it’s a different feeling of loss, isn’t it?’

In his interview with The Times, Mike also discussed the reported link between multiple blows to the head from playing rugby and brain damage, saying that he hasn’t ‘got myself check yet, but it is on my list of things to do’.

The former England Rugby international, 44, and his 42-year-old wife (pictured with son Lucas in April 2022), who is the King’s niece, revealed in December 2016 that a pregnancy announced the previous month had ended in a miscarriage. They had welcomed daughter Mia in 2014

In a lighter moment, the former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here campmate opened up about his cousin-in-law, the Princess of Wales. 

He revealed how Kate, 41, is ‘very competitive’ but that she hasn’t yet won at beer pong against the sportsman. 

It comes after Mike talked about playing beer pong with the royal on a special Rugby World Cup edition of the former England international’s podcast: The Good, the Bad and the Rugby.

In the 50-minute episode, the Prince and Princess of Wales and Anne, the Princess Royal – who are patrons of Welsh, English and Scottish rugby, respectively – talked to Mike and co-hosts James Haskell and Alex Payne in the green drawing room at Windsor Castle.

The recording, which was filmed last month and released shortly after, revealed some of the sporting secrets of the Royal Family.

Two years later in an interview with the Sunday Times, Zara (pictured with Mia in 2019) discussed the devastation of losing the baby and revealed she had suffered a second miscarriage before falling pregnant with daughter Lena, now five

Mike appeared to let slip a more playful side of the Princess of Wales when he revealed her competitive streak. He told his viewers: ‘I’ve seen her play beer pong!’

The party game requires players to throw or hit table tennis balls into cups of beer, and their opponents are required to drink the contents of any cup in which a ball lands.

Elsewhere, England legend Haskell asked Kate and William if they are like ‘Monica and Chandler’ from 90s sitcom Friends as he discussed their competitive rivalry.

Kate joked unconvincingly: ‘I’m really not that competitive. I don’t know where this has come from’.

She then admitted: ‘I don’t think we have actually managed to finish a game of tennis the two of us. It becomes a mental challenge between the two of us.’ William said: ‘It’s who can [mentally outdo] each other.’

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