The Queen 'hid her pregnancy' from the world and was never photographed with a bump
KATE Middleton and Meghan Markle have been photographed endlessly throughout their pregnancies with the public obsessed with royal mums-to-be.The Queen his her pregnancy with Prince Charles from the public back in 1948The monarch was cautious to keep her pregnancies quite literally under wraps due to the “taboo” nature of them at the time, according to the
When the then Princess Elizabeth fell pregnant with Prince Charles back in 1948, Buckingham Palace released a cryptic statement.her pregnancy was announced as, “Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth will undertake no public engagements after the end of June.
The Queen, who was 22 at the time, was in labour for 22 hours, before giving birth by Caesarean section at Buckingham Palace. According to reports Prince Philip was absent from the birth and was playing squash at the time his son arrived. Princess Anne was born in 1950 in Clarence House, when Buckingham Palace was going under renovations, and Prince Andrew and Prince Edward followed back at Buckingham Palace in 1960 and 1964 respectively.On June 21, 1982, Princess Diana broke with tradition to give birth to Prince William at the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital.
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