Prince George and Princess Charlotte are about to have a younger family member to contend with in the cute stakes.
Zara Phillips and her ex-international rugby player husband Mike Tyndall are expecting their second child.
The couple’s spokeswoman said: “Mike and Zara are expecting another baby”.
The British equestrian, the second child and only daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, confirmed the happy news this afternoon.
The new baby, due in late spring 2017, will be a younger sibling for Mia (2) and the Queen’s sixth great-grandchild
Zara is the second-eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The children of the Princess Royal do not hold any royal or noble title. They are not entitled to royal status by right of birth, as they are the grandchildren of a monarch in the female line, and their father declined a title in his own right.
That means, although little Mia is 17th in line to the throne, she and her new brother or sister do not share a title with their cousins George and Charlotte.
This story originally appeared on HerFamily.ie
