Zara and Mike Tindall’s children, Mia, nine, and Lena, five, have inevitably inherited their parents’ love of sport.
But with an Olympic equestrian as their mother and a World Cup-winning rugby player as their father, they’ve also inherited the competitiveness that comes with it.
The royal pair revealed their children enjoy going head to head with their cousins, Prince William and Princess Kate’s children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five.
Speaking to Australian Woman’s Weekly, Zara and Mike, who also share a two-year-old son, Lucas, revealed that they often hang out with the Prince and Princess of Wale’s family.
Mike said: “Our kids play with their kids in this competition we have.
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“Competition done the right way is so healthy, I think. It drives people to get better; for sports people, it drives you to train, it drives you to push as hard as you can. You need that.”
Zara agreed with her husband and added: “I think our families are fairly competitive.”
But it seems the Tindall children might get too competitive as they don’t like it when they lose.
Mike joked: “Mia doesn’t like losing at the moment. [And] now Lena is getting old enough to start pushing Mia because there’s a bit of a gap.
“Then Lucas is going to be even worse because he’s going to be trying to catch them up all the time. It’s definitely in there.”
The former rugby star added: “The biggest learning is to be competitive but not throw your toys out of the pram when you lose.
“It’s about going away and thinking, ‘Why did I lose?’ That’s where the growth comes from.”
