I’m A Celeb’s Mike Tindall recalls how wife Zara ‘almost choked me to death’ during birth

The 44-year-old former rugby player is married to Ms Phillips, 41, who had their child Lucas Philip Tindall at her mother Princess Anne's estate, Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire.

The birth in March 2021 was thought to be the first royal baby to be born at home for nearly 60 years.

The late Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, had her daughter Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, now Lady Sarah Chatto, at home in Kensington Palace in May 1964, a few weeks after Elizabeth II had Prince Edward, now the Earl of Wessex, at Buckingham Palace.

Tindall said in the Australian jungle on Thursday his third child, Lucas - a member of the royal family but not referred to as His Royal Highness, "was rapid".

He added: "As we got our stuff to go to hospital, she got out of the bath, she could barely stand, she was shaking.

"The midwife was like 'she's not making the hospital'.

"She was like 'you don't want to be delivering in the car'.

"(I went) into the gym (and got) two gym mats (to put) down in the bathroom."

Tindall also spoke about his wife's labour pains, saying: "(Zara) was, it was fast though, from that moment. She almost choked me to death.

"You can't say anything can you? 'Can you let go, you're really hurting me?'"

Elsewhere, Tindall was given an orthopaedic pillow as a treat.