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Tenerife Weekly - 12th July 2013 - 18th July 2013
Baby news For Zara & Mike
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HE Queen’s press secretary has confirmed that the Queen’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall,
is expecting a baby with her husband Mike Tindall and “Both families are delighted with the news.”
Facebook.com/TenerifeWeekly “Mr and Mrs Mike Tindall are very pleased to announce that Zara Tindall is expecting a baby in the New Year,” said the official statement. “The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips, Mr Phillip and Mrs Linda Tindall, and members of both families are delighted with the news. “This baby will be the first child for Mike and Zara and the third grandchild for The Princess Royal.” The child will Princess Anne’s third grandchild, as her son, Peter Phillips, has two daughters. The birth follows the much anticipated arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby, which is expected in the coming days. However, because Zara Tindall does not hold a royal title, her baby will not be called his or her ‘royal highness’. Former England rugby international Tindall married Princess Anne’s daughter in a private ceremony in July 2011. Zara, 32, is also an accomplished sportswoman and last year won an Olympic silver medal as part of the equestrian eventing team. Zara Tindall, currently 14th in line to the throne, met her husband at the 2003 rugby World Cup in Australia. The couple married in Edinburgh two years ago, in a ceremony attended by all the senior Royals. However, just months later, the rugby player was fined and booted out of the 2011 World Cup squad over a team night out. He apparently took part in a “dwarf tossing” competition with fellow players and was seen embracing an ex-girlfriend. Tindall’s fine was eventually reduced and his suspension set aside after an appeal found he did not intentionally mislead the team’s management. Zara and Mike Tindall currently live on Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire.
prehistoric rock Writings Found
oNE of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings created by desert nomads that lived 6,000 years ago has been discovered.
Archaeologists believe the 8,000 images carved into 500 rocks in Mexico’s white desert of Coahuila, could provide valuable clues to the way pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer tribes communicated with each other. So-called petroglyph images are believed to have deep cultural and religious meanings and represent primitive forms of symbolic language combined with hallucinations from psychedelic drug use. The style of the runes varies from place to place, suggesting that in addition to religious meanings, territorial boundaries and regional dialects existed between clans. The rocks were discovered by scientists at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History who have developed the site so it can be visited by the public.
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