Meet Princess Anne's Granddaughter Lena Tindall
When compared with the Cambridge kids, the Tindalls keep a relatively low profile for members of the royal family. But at this year's Platinum Jubilee, they celebrated Queen Elizabeth right alongside the rest of their royal cousins.
Here's everything we know about Zara Tindall's daughter Lena Tindall:
Lena was born to Princess Anne's daughter Zara and her husband Mike Tindall on June 18, 2018.
The Queen's granddaughter Zara gave birth to a baby girl at Stroud Maternity Unit in Gloucestershire in June 2018. Naturally, the Queen, Prince Philip, and Princess Anne, and Captain Mark Phillips were "delighted with the news." A little more than a week after the royal baby arrived a family spokesperson finally shared her name: Lena Elizabeth, a nod to the Queen.
Lena is the younger daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall—her older sister Mia is often seen cavorting with her cousins, and her brother Lucas arrived in March 2021. For those keeping track, Lena is the fourth grandchild of Princess Anne, and the seventh of Queen Elizabeth's 12 great-grandchildren.
Lena is currently 22nd in line to the British throne.
Lena follows her sister Mia in the official line of succession. Despite her position in line, Mia does not hold a formal royal rank. According to the BBC, children of the daughter of a monarch are not "entitled to the rank of 'Her Royal Highness,'" and when Mia's mother Zara was born in 1981, her parents, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, declined to give her a title. (More on the patriarchal way in which royal titles are passed on here.)
Since neither her mother nor her father have a royal rank, Mia does not have one either.
Prince Harry is reportedly her godfather.
Both the Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan attended Lena's christening at St Nicholas Church in Cherington, Gloucestershire in March of 2019. Prince Harry reportedly plays a special role in Lena's life, though his position as godfather has never been officially confirmed by the royal family.
She made her first major appearance with the British royal family during the Platinum Jubilee.
Lena joined her older sister and the many of her royal cousins at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, where she sat in the royal box. She seemed to particularly enjoy hanging out with her big cousin, Princess Charlotte:
While Lena has been photographed in public before with her family, this was her first big event with the royals.
Later in the summer, she was pictured with her dad, Mike Tindall, and her siblings at the Festival of British Eventing, held at her grandmother Princess Anne's country estate. She seemed to have a blast on the ferris wheel:
Lena was one of the littlest royals in attendance at Westminster Hall when the majority of the extended Windsor family arrived to pay tribute to the late Queen as she lay in state. She was likely deemed too young to attend the funeral, or the committal service in Windsor.
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