What Giving Birth Was Like for Royal Mothers

For as long as it's been in existence, the royal world has been special, elevated above the mediocrity of regular life and filled with the pleasures and privileges of divine power and influence. And even though the practical function of the monarchy has become mostly symbolic, the public fascination with its office certainly has not. So, for example, when Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to the newest members of the English monarchy, public curiosity about her experience was boundless. But alas, the details were not so thrilling, as she and William apparently greeted their precious new bundles much like any average citizen – in the privacy of a clean and well-lit room with just a few medical attendants nearby.

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[ohnoajellyfish]

The medical staff in the operating room was enough audience for me.

[jacknewman]

Did you ever notice that people being tortured in Medieval artwork always look kind of bored or at most just irritated?

[cantbetamed]

And don't forget most royal mothers are teens... so...double pain.

[dannyjay]

My strange addiction is watching weird history

[donnawoodman]

I didn’t even want to be there when I gave birth!!!

[chrispetersen]

Just died when he said, 200 gathered to see Marie Antoinette’s “ah...child being born” 😂

[NewMessage]

My Mother thought I was a royal pain, too.

[sacred-chan]

Imagine being a queen and giving birth to a child. And after so much labour, the king comes and just says *"ugly"*

[PavchBavin]

Medieval women: Weird... My periods stopped and I'm getting fat. Am I pregnant? Nah, probably just demons or something

[noblemily]

That is one of the reason why I feel lucky to be a 21st century woman.
Pain killer, Penicillin, sewer system, birth control pill, are the best inventions ever.

[snapmyneck]

Lowkey, Prince Albert wanting to be there for his wife during labor is sweet

[heinrichmuller]

i always thought that the reason why so many people watched a royal birth was to prevent anyone from switching babies, or from calming that such an switch has taken place, as this has happened in the past with other royal births.

[DJDoubleCee]

I heard childbirth can be extremely painful, I can imagine how unbearable the experience must’ve been at a time before epidurals were invented.

[BrokenHeart-qmlk]

NO PRIVACY!! Eww!! All those people looking at your ‘hot pocket’. Oh hells

[robertagardner]

I did have an audience at the birth of my baby.. Around 5 student doctors were admitted when had my son. I didn't care at the time but my doctor could have asked my permission first!!

[itachi-kun]

Queen Anne gave about 17 births but none of them survive at adulthood

[insertlamenamehere]

A lack of privacy during childbirth can actually stall the labour, I'm glad to just be little old me and that I am not going to have a whole bunch of people spectating the delivery of my baby ahahah

[sarahleaa]

“A males sperm determines a baby’s gender” ohhh....King Henry VIII smh

[yukisora]

Apparently u can give birth with an audience...my aunt signed hospital papers without reading them and apparently she signed for giving birth in front of a whole classroom of residents doctors, this was way back in the day and she still has trauma from it💀

[spaceinvader]

Never before have I seen people who needed eighth grade health class as bad as these people.