Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall introduce baby Mia to the world on the cover of Hello! magazine 

  • Zara gave birth to the couple's first child January 17
  • Have since kept a low profile with their daughter, who is named Mia
  • Couple appear on cover of this week's edition of Hello! magazine
  • First picture of the Queen's fourth great-grandchild seen by the public

By Katy Winter

PUBLISHED: 08:34 EST, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:58 EST, 24 February 2014

They kept the birth of their first child low key, not even posing for the traditional photographs outside the hospital.

But Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall have now made the surprisingly public move of selling the first pictures of their baby daughter Mia to Hello! magazine.

The Queen's fourth great-grandchild, who is 16th in line to the throne and was born on January 17, appears on the front cover of this week's edition.

Zara and Mike appear in this week's Hello! magazine with a peaceful-looking baby Mia lying between them

Zara and Mike appear in this week's Hello! magazine with a peaceful-looking baby Mia lying between them

Zara and Mike, here seen leaving the Christmas Day service at Sandringham less than a month before she gave birth, have kept a low profile since the arrival

Zara and Mike, here seen leaving the Christmas Day service at Sandringham less than a month before she gave birth, have kept a low profile since the arrival

Dressed in a white striped baby gro, Mia, awake and content, is pictured lying in front of her proud parents, who both looked relaxed and happy. 

The baby daughter of Zara Phillips made her first public appearance at the Barbury point-to-point races in Wiltshire, where two of her mother's horses were competing, but could not be seen inside her buggy, making the Hello! shoot the first time the latest edition to the royal family has been seen by the public.

 

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In 2008, Zara's brother Peter Phillips was criticised after selling photos of his wedding to Canadian bride Autumn Kelly to Hello! and reportedly receiving £500,000 in return.

At the time Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb described the move 'a serious error of judgment' that 'smacks rather of greed'.

Zara and baby Mia were spotted enjoying the sunshine at the Barbury racecourse last week, but the Queen's latest great-grandchild could not be seen inside her buggy

Zara and baby Mia were spotted enjoying the sunshine at the Barbury racecourse last week, but the Queen's latest great-grandchild could not be seen inside her buggy

  

Last September, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's son Lord Frederick Windsor and his wife Sophie Winkleman also posed for Hello! with their baby daughter Maud.

Earlier this month, Hello! published paparazzi photographs of Prince George in the arms of his mother the Duchess of Cambridge as they left a British Airways plane while on a Caribbean holiday.

Some commentators expressed surprised that the Cambridges had apparently not tried to stop the publication of the paparazzi images.

A spokesman for Hello! magazine said: 'We are delighted that Zara and Mike Tindall chose to share their beautiful baby pictures with Hello!'

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on whether the Queen had been consulted over the photographs, which appear across 13 pages of the glossy magazine.

Olympic medal-winning sportswoman Zara and former England rugby star Tindall revealed that their daughter was 'pretty relaxed and happy so far'.

Zara takes a peek at her tiny sleeping daughter at the races last week. The couple revealed they hired a maternity nurse for the first few days to help them get to grips with parenthood

Zara takes a peek at her tiny sleeping daughter at the races last week. The couple revealed they hired a maternity nurse for the first few days to help them get to grips with parenthood

Zara described her husband, here with her at Prince George's christening, as a 'hands-on' father, while he gushed: 'I still keeping looking at Mia and thinking "Oh! We made that!"'

Zara described her husband, here with her at Prince George's christening, as a 'hands-on' father, while he gushed: 'I still keeping looking at Mia and thinking "Oh! We made that!"'

Mia's second cousin Prince George was born at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London

Mia's second cousin Prince George was born at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London

The couple hired a maternity nurse for the first few days to help them get to grips with parenthood.

Mia, whose name was announced by her father via Twitter, was born in the NHS at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

'We'd never even contemplated going privately,' the couple told the magazine.

Mia's second cousin Prince George - a future king - was born at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.

Zara also disclosed that she had an epidural. She said she was hoping to resume her equestrian career and enter the Burghley Horse Trials in September but for now they were 'taking each day as it comes'.

Tindall, who was described by his wife as a hands on father, said: 'I still keeping looking at Mia and thinking "Oh! We made that!"'
 

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Zara is such a beauty, let's hope her little daughter inherits her looks.

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Better they get paid by Hello Magazine than the public purse.

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I really like them, Anne and Mark Philips did a great job with Zara and Peter. She was right not to give them the burden of titles.

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She' angelic. Zara looks blissed out.

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Stupid magazine with more money but she does work. So who cares.

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Well lets make a few hundred K out of her but we wont bother picking her up. But having said that she sure is a cutie happy life and God bless

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what a beautiful little baby, nice 1 mike & zara, all the best, be happy & lucky!

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They seem a very nice and happy young couple. Good luck to them and their new baby

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Smart idea, considering that Zara doesn't receive money from the British taxpayer, unlike Prince William, and so she had to sell her daughter's pictures to earn income. And even though she doesn't carry out royal duties for the Queen she is still an extended member and so people would like to see her daughter.

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Gorgeous photographs of Mia and her parents, but really, do we have to keep seeing the other photograph of Kathy and Billy all the time?

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