Rod Stewart with son AlastairPenny Lancaster has said she believes soon-to-be-husband Rod Stewart is a better dad to their son Alastair than he has been to his other children because he’s older now.

Penny, who gave birth to Alastair in X 2005, told the Mirror recently: “I know he wishes he’d had more time with his other kids when they were growing up, but he was working and he needed the work more than he does now.”

“At this stage in life he’s able to spend more time with the family. It used to be all rock ‘n’ roll and it didn’t sit so well to walk around with a pram. But he’s achieved so much in his career he doesn’t have to keep up that image.”

“Now pushing a pram isn’t the embarrassing thing he thought it was, it’s something to be very proud of.”

“I think the biggest difference between Alastair and the other children is not having a nanny from the start, and actually just being with Daddy. It’s normally when you’ve got people to help that you hand a lot of things over to them. So it’s been good to be just the three of us.”

“Now, if I have to be away from Rod, he’s like, ‘Of course I’ll miss you darling, but Alastair - just to see that face and not have his arms wrapped round my leg’. It’s such an attractive quality to see him being a father.”