Royals are expected to produce an heir to the throne, and as soon a woman marries a royal, she is soon expected to have a baby. In some more distant times, when a woman didn’t have a male heir, she was either divorced or in some extreme times, beheaded. Luckily that is no longer the case. Throughout history, women had babies when they were very young, and here are some of the royals who were very young when they had their first child.
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Princess Diana
Diana married Charles when she was 20 years old. Charles was 13 years older than her, and soon after they married, Diana gave birth to William. By the time she was 23 years old, she had another baby, Harry. Diana confessed that she suffered from postpartum depression, and even though there was enough support for her during those days, she still focused on her children, who made her extremely happy. “As the boys got older and became like her counselors and friends as sons, she began to enjoy life a lot more,” Diana’s biographer, Andrew Morton, told Fox News. “Of course, she indulged them… She wanted to be a full hands-on parent herself. ”
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II became a mother when she was 22 years old. Elizabeth and Philip married when she was 21, and in the following year, she gave birth to their first child, Charles. The royal couple has four children together.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was a ruler from 1837 to 1901. She came to the throne when she was 17 years old, and three years later, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They were both 20 years old, and they had their first child when Victoria was 21 years old. They had nine children together.
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
German monarch, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, who was German’s last empress, was born in 1858. She married her distant cousin, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia when she was 22 years old. At the age of 23, she gave birth to their first child, Crown Prince Wilhelm. Augusta had five children, but none of them ascended to the throne, because the monarchy was no longer existing.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was just 14 years old when she married French dauphin Louis, the grandson of the then-king Louis XV. Their marriage was not a happy one, and they didn’t even consummate it for many years, which the rivals of the throne took advantage of, and conspired to take it for themselves. In the end, Marie Antoinette got executed during the French Revolution. She did have children, she gave birth to Marie Thérèse when she was 23. Marie Antoinette had four children, but Marie Thérèse was the only one to live to her adulthood.
Queen Paola of Belgium
Princess Ruffo di Calabria was born in Italy, who married Prince Albert of Belgium in 1959. She was 22 when she had her first baby, son Philippe in 1960. The couple has another son and a daughter together. Philippe is currently on the throne.
Queen Sirikit of Thailand
Queen Sirikit of Thailand is the daughter of Prince Chandaburi Suranath who served as Thai Minister to France and then Denmark. He ended up as the Thai Ambassador to England’s Court of St. James. Sirikit married her distant cousin, Bhumibol Adulyadej, when she was 17 years old in 1950. She gave birth to their first baby Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya when she was 18 years, old. They also have a son together, Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, who is currently the King.
Mary, Queen of Scots
When Mary was 15 years old, she married Francis, the heir to the French throne. Francis became the King, but in 1560 he died, and Mary returned to Scotland. She got married again, in 1565, to her cousin, the Earl of Darnley. They weren’t happy together, but they still had a child when Mary was 23 years old.
Victoria Eugene of Battenberg
She is Queen Victoria’s youngest granddaughter. She was born in 1887 in Scotland, and at the age of 17, she married the king of Spain, Alfonso XIII. They had seven kids. Their first child Alfonso was born in 1907, and Victoria Eugene was 19 years old at the time. They had seven children together.
Cleopatra
The Egyptian queen married her younger brother Ptolemy XIII, which was a tradition amongst Egyptian royals. Cleopatra had an affair with Roman general Julius Caesar, who helped her in her battle with Ptolemy XIII. It is believed that her son, Ptolemy XIV was Julius Ceasar’s child, who ended up accepting Cleopatra’s baby as his own. She was around 22 years old when she had her child.
Empress Kōjun
Kōjun was born as Princess Nagako in 1903, and she was Japan’s Empress. Prince Hirohito, the future emperor of Japan and Kōjun got married in 1924 when she was 21 years old. She gave birth to their first child, Princess Shigeko when she was 22 years old. They had seven children together.
Source: www.thelist.com
