Zara Phillips and her husband Mike Tindall have welcomed their second child, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The royal and her rugby player husband, who already have daughter Mia Grace, welcomed a little girl on Monday.
The new arrival, whose name has not yet been announced, was born at Stroud Maternity Unit, weighing 9 lbs 3 oz.
The baby will be the seventh great-grandchild for the Queen, after the Royal family welcomed Prince Louis in April.
The new arrival comes just two months after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s third child was born.
News of Zara’s pregnancy came just over a year after the royal couple suffered the heartache of a miscarriage.
The royal and her rugby player husband (pictured at the royal wedding last month) who already have daughter Mia Grace, welcomed a little girl on Monday
Zara and Mike Tindall, pictured on the announcement of their engagement in December 2010, have welcomed their second child
Announcement: The royal and her rugby player husband, who already have daughter Mia Grace, welcomed a little girl on Monday
At the end of November 2016 the couple said they were expecting a brother or sister for three-year-old Mia, but almost a month later, on Christmas Eve, they announced Zara tragically had lost the baby.
It is believed she was around four months pregnant at the time. As a result, she missed the Royal Family’s annual celebrations at Sandringham.
Zara has not spoken publicly about the tragedy but former England rugby captain Mike Tindall later said: ‘One thing you do learn is how many other people have to go through the same thing.
‘The saving grace for us has been Mia. However down we feel, she will come running up in our faces.’
The new baby will not be given a title as both parents are keen for their children to have a ‘normal’ upbringing.
Zara and Tindall live with her mother, Princess Anne, on her Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire.
Zara’s grandmother the Queen and other members of the royal family are said to be ‘very pleased to hear the news’. The child is believed to be due sometime this summer
The family are currently in Australia, where they have seen in Christmas and the New Year before attending the Magic Millions horse racing carnival, which is staged on Australia’s Gold Coast and begins this weekend.
For a number of years Zara – a former world eventing champion and Olympic silver medallist – has been involved with the event which features thoroughbred sales, racing and polo matches.
The Queen’s granddaughter is patron of the event’s Magic Millions Racing Women, an initiative promoting racehorse ownership among women.
Photographs taken of Zara out and about in Sydney over the past few weeks showed a clear hint of a baby bump, but the couple were not ready yet to announce their good news, a source explained.