We need more kings! How many children in royal families were then and are now
Recently, the House of Windsor announced the next pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, the mother of a potential heir to the British throne. It would seem why 35-year-old Kate Middleton needs another child, because she and Prince William already have two children: 4-year-old Prince George and 2-year-old Princess Charlotte, and pregnancy, according to rumors, is not easy. The Duchess is now at 8-12 weeks and does not appear in public because she suffers from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a severe form of toxicosis. But as Queen Maria Theresa once said, who was called "the mother and mother-in-law of all Europe": "Children are never enough."
Let's see how many children there were in royal families in the past, and how things are today.
Queen Victoria and her husband Albert had 9 children: Victoria, Albert Edward, Alice, Alfred, Elena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice. Subsequently, the longest reigning queen became the grandmother of 42 grandchildren.
And the son of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and his wife Alexandra of Denmark had six children (one child died in infancy). They were born from 1864 to 1870.
His son King George V and Mary of Teck had six children. By the way, George was incredibly similar to his cousin, the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, who, in turn, had four daughters and one son.
The son of George V, King George VI and his wife Elizabeth Bowes Lyon had two children, but rumors come from various memoir sources that the king had health problems, therefore only two.
But their daughter Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Philip became the parents of four offspring: Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess of Great Britain, Andrew, Duke of York and Edward, Earl of Wessex.
Their son — heir Charles and his wife Diana Spencer have two sons, but who knows, if things had turned out differently, there could have been more.
And a bonus…
...the current King and Queen of Belgium have four children.
The King and Queen of the Netherlands have three.
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife Mary have four.
Duke Henri of Luxembourg and his wife Maria Theresa have five.
The King and Queen of Sweden have three.
And the royal couple of Jordan has four of them.
So Kate Middleton and her husband Prince William may have everything ahead of them.
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