Zara Tindall reveals she suffered second miscarriage in private before birth of second daughter

Private agony: Zara and Mike Tindall mourned a second miscarriage in private
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Fiona Simpson29 July 2018

Zara Tindall has revealed she suffered a second miscarriage before giving birth to her second child Lena.

Princess Anne’s daughter publicly disclosed that a pregnancy announced in November 2016 ended in miscarriage the following month.

The mother-of-two, Mia, four, and Lena, who was born in June, has now spoken candidly about suffering a second blow before falling pregnant with her youngest child.

She told The Sunday Time’s Magazine she had the miscarriage “really early on” and was able to mourn in private with former Rugby star husband Mike Tindall.

Mike and Zara Tindall, pictured at the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May
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The 37-year-old said: “I think you need to go through a period where you don't talk about it because it's too raw.”

The Queen’s granddaughter said one of the hardest parts of her first miscarriage was dealing with the public announcement which is generally the rule for descendants of the monarch

Zara Tindall has revealed she suffered a second miscarriage
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She said in a joint interview with her brother Peter Phillips: “That's why I think a lot of people don't talk about it because [a miscarriage] can happen early enough or it's only your group of friends and your family that know."

The equestrian, who won a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic Games, was forced to go into labour with her first miscarriage which she described as “nature not working”

Zara and Mike Tindall with their daughter Mia Grace
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She praised those who had flooded herself and her husband with messages of support saying: “You definitely don't want to talk about it ... I think you need to go through a period where you don't talk because you need to deal with it.

“Amazingly, lots of people wrote to us and said they'd been through the same thing.”

According to NHS statistics as many as one in eight women will suffer a miscarriage. Many more women are thought to have one before they realise they are pregnant.

However, just one per cent of women will lost three or more consecutive pregnancies, the NHS estimates.

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