Zara Tindall’s daughter Lena Elizabeth Tindall is the youngest great-granddaughter of the Queen and Prince Philip. She is the fourth grandchild of Princess Anne and the seventh of the Queen’s eight great-grandchildren. Lena is currently 20th in line to the British throne but holds no royal title like her mother and father.
Zara’s husband Mike recently provided touching insight into their daughter’s relationship with the Queen.
The devoted father appeared on The One Show earlier this month and was asked whether the Queen sends money to his daughters in the post on their birthday.
Mike said: “No, my mum and dad still do though. It doesn’t arrive in the post from the Queen.”
The former rugby player also revealed the family were due to visit Scotland to celebrate Princess Anne’s 70th birthday on August 15, where the Queen and Prince Philip are currently staying.
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Zara Tindall celebrated her ninth wedding anniversary on Thursday in July.
The couple were married in a summer ceremony in Edinburgh in July 2011, just three months after Prince William married Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.
Zara and Mike have two children together: Mia Grace and Lena Elizabeth.
The doting parents paid tribute to the Queen by giving Lena the middle name of Elizabeth, but there was one special reason why they were unwilling to give her the Queen’s name as her first name.
It is possible Zara and Mike may have desired to use Elizabeth as her first name.
But the couple would never have done so for one very specific reason.
The parents never wanted their daughter to have the initials ET.
According to reports, the doting parents initially wanted to name their daughter Elena but decided against it due to the initials.
Zara revealed her desire for the name Elena in 2018.
Speaking to the Telegraph she said: “I liked the name Elena but I didn’t want her initials to be ‘ET’ so she’s Lena.”
At the time of Lena’s birth, a spokesperson for the couple revealed that they had picked the name because “it is just a name they liked”.
Lena is a female given name which has evolved in different languages as a variation of several earlier names.
In some derivations, Lena comes from the endings of Alina and Helena.
Leana is seen in Persian, Hindi and Swedish, and Leena in Arabic and Finnish.
It was crowned the most popular name for girls born in Poland in 2013.
The name Lena has several different meanings, in Arabic, it means “generous and kind”.
In Latin, Lena means “she that allures”.
In Greek, it means “sunlight” and “moonlight”.
In Persian, it means “light”, “sunlight” or “pretty girl”.
In Ancient Greek, Elana is the name for light, and Lana is a shortened version of that word.
