Zara names royal baby after the Queen
ZARA and Mike Tindall have named their new baby daughter Lena Elizabeth in honour of the Queen. The Queen’s granddaughter Zara gave birth to her second child, weighing 9lb 3oz, at Stroud Maternity Unit in Gloucestershire on Monday June 18. A spokeswoman for the couple said: “The name is Lena Elizabeth. It was just a name they liked.”
The newest addition to the Royal Family is a younger sister to four-year-old Mia and is 19th in line to the throne.
She is also the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s seventh greatgrandchild.
But she is not an HRH, does not have a title and will be simply Miss Tindall. The family are said to be adapting well to becoming a family of four.
Lena – which is said to be Greek in origin with meanings including “temptress”, “illustrious” and “the bright one” – is popular in Hollywood, where one of the best known is Game Of Thrones actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister in the fantasy drama.
Zara, 37, daughter of the Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips, is a champion equestrian rider who won a team silver in the London 2012 Olympics.
She and former England rugby player Tindall, 39, have been together for 15 years and married in Edinburgh in July 2011.
The new baby is believed to be the heaviest in recent years, taking over the record from Zara’s niece Savannah Phillips, who was 8lb 8oz when born in 2010.