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Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, June 26, 1816

The wedding of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium was quite rowdy! 

…he was assailed by numbers of females patting him on the back, and calling blessings on him, &.; this gave a number of men, in the delay thus occasioned, an opportunity to take the traces from the carriage, and draw him without horses…

Princess Charlotte, with Leopold as her consort, would have been Queen of England upon the death of her father (instead of her cousin, Victoria), if she hadn’t died during childbirth to a stillborn son the year after her wedding.

London, August 15, 1950 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had paced the floor as anxiously as any prospective father, was the first to hear of the birth. He rushed to the telephone to tell the king, as well as his mother and grandmother who were...   High-res

London, August 15, 1950

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had paced the floor as anxiously as any prospective father, was the first to hear of the birth. He rushed to the telephone to tell the king, as well as his mother and grandmother who were waiting at Kensington Palace.

Delighted at the safe delivery of his daughter and the fact that his preference for a girl had been fulfilled, the Duke ordered champagne for everybody in Clarence House.