What Giving Birth Was Like for Royal Mothers

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Published 2020-12-09

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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All Comments (21)

@ohnoajellyfish 3 years ago

The medical staff in the operating room was enough audience for me.
@jacknewman9256 3 years ago

Did you ever notice that people being tortured in Medieval artwork always look kind of bored or at most just irritated?
@sacred-chan157 3 years ago

Imagine being a queen and giving birth to a child. And after so much labour, the king comes and just says "ugly"
@snapmyneck8818 3 years ago

Lowkey, Prince Albert wanting to be there for his wife during labor is sweet
@PavchBavin 3 years ago

Medieval women: Weird... My periods stopped and I'm getting fat. Am I pregnant? Nah, probably just demons or something
@dannyjay338 3 years ago

My strange addiction is watching weird history
@sarahleaa4866 3 years ago

“A males sperm determines a baby’s gender” ohhh....King Henry VIII smh
@yukisora5775 3 years ago

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💀
@chrispetersen1303 3 years ago

Just died when he said, 200 gathered to see Marie Antoinette’s “ah...child being born” 😂
@NewMessage 3 years ago

My Mother thought I was a royal pain, too.
@aebeeceeonetwothree1377 3 years ago

Honestly Marie Antoinette saying that she wants barely anyone for her second birth after all the chaos her first birth brought makes so much sense
@sunnycustardpie 3 years ago

I really hate that something as special and as PRIVATE as birth was treated like the premiere of Avengers: Endgame.
@donnawoodman6249 3 years ago

I didn’t even want to be there when I gave birth!!!
@cantbetamed2210 3 years ago

And don't forget most royal mothers are teens... so...double pain.
@ama.mensss 3 years ago

As a woman, I’m so happy that new medications have been made to help women through labor. I can’t imagine how it hurt for woman in medieval times to give birth with such pain
@jenniferbaldini3527 3 years ago

"And the midwives did all of the heavy lifting..." I was a maternity nurse for five years. I got news for you, the LABOR nurse still does ALL of the heavy lifting today, with the doctor breezing in at the end for the actual birth (most of the time). Sometimes they dont make it in time for the birth at all, the labor nurse delivers the baby, but dont worry, you'll still get a bill for the birth from your OB. So, dont forget to thank your labor nurse!!
@noblemily 3 years ago

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.
@DJDoubleCee 3 years ago

I heard childbirth can be extremely painful, I can imagine how unbearable the experience must’ve been at a time before epidurals were invented.
@r-e_mii 3 years ago

Im totally down with laying around for a month. Now youre in & out within 3 days for a regular vaginal birth & 5 for a c sect. You're sent home & thats that. My neighbor was 92 years old when i got home from the hospital. She was shocked. She said that they had kept her for 10 days, she was even more shocked that nurseries are not commonly offered so the new mother could rest. I told her nope you give birth no matter how long it takes, they hand you the baby & youre alone in your room. Men say a kidney stone is worse than giving birth. That cracks me up.
@minieyke 3 years ago

“The loss of the queen, or even worse the baby” Some thing never change, like devaluing women as merely the means to the end of human reproduction that can unfortunately be lost in said reproduction and not ohh... I don’t know... human beings?