History is witness that in many royal houses, there was a danger in danger before being born on the heir of the throne. There were many kings whose childhood passed between the conspiracies of the court and also posed a threat to life. In such a situation, the birth of a prince was an important moment and not only in the royal family, but all the courtiers and subjects were excited and were also shocked about any untoward.
In countries like France and Russia, having children for queens was an important and difficult task. He was under pressure to create heirs since marriage. In such a situation, when it was the turn to give birth to the child, this process was also done publicly. That is, in front of the courtiers and common people, the queen gave birth to the future successor.
Louis fourteenth wife gave birth to a child in front of the courtiers
According to History.com, on November 1, 1661, King Louis of France, the shy and calm -tempered Spanish wife – Rani Mary -Thresa began to suffer childbirth. As soon as the queen began to suffer childbirth, the crowd of people started growing in her quiet palace room. The princesses, duxes and counties started filling in that room.
Because of this, the queens used to give birth to the child in front of the mob
The birth of a royal child was considered so important that witnesses were needed for this. The queens often suffered childbirth in front of a large number of people. This used to increase their fear and sorrow during delivery. In this case, the crowd of courtiers used to be to ensure that a dead child should not be replaced by a living child and no desired boy should be replaced by a royal child.
Celebration started outside the palace
Antonia Fraser wrote in Love and Louis XIV that there was a carnival atmosphere outside the palace. Spanish actor and musicians were dancing ballet under the royal windows of the palace. Spanish tunes were being played, so that Queen Mary-Thresa could be reminded of her birthplace. It was expected that this Spanish tune would distract the attention of the queen, who kept screaming because of her pain – I do not want to give birth to the child, I want to die.
After the birth of the child, the king publicly announced its announcement
After twelve hours of labor pain, the queen finally gave birth to a healthy boy. He was named Louis de France. The courtiers sitting in the delivery room and corridor bounced their caps in the air and indicated the courtiers sitting in the outer chambers to be a boy. Then King Louis XIV shouted her subjects sitting in the courtyard below the window and said – Rani has given birth to a boy.
The crowd gathered during the delivery of Mary Antonate
In the old times, pregnant royal mothers were constantly monitored. Perhaps in 1778, Rani Mary Antonate was also not waiting for the birth of any other child with eagerness from the birth of the first child. However, her mother Maharani Mary-Thresa had stopped the practice of giving birth to children publicly in Austria. Nevertheless, Mary was unable to change the root customs of Antonate Versay. On the morning of December 19, the queen played the bell and indicated that she had started suffering childbirth.
The crowd gathered even after the refusal of Mary Antonate’s delivery
Fraser wrote in ‘Mary Antonate: The Journey’ that the queen soon spread the chaos in Versay as soon as the news of childbirth started. The enthusiastic court and elite started moving fast towards the queen’s room. The crowd was limited to outer rooms such as the main gallery, but in this chaos, many people also reached the inner rooms. Some royal audiences also sat in the room where the queen was going to give birth to the child.
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In all this enthusiasm, the queen herself looked almost a thoughtless. Mary-Antonate gave birth to a little girl after twelve hours. He was named Mary-Thresa after his grandmother. However, she was not a boy, but after birth there was so much uproar in the queen’s room that Mary-Antonet had a tour and fainted.
Russia’s queen also gave birth to a child in a crowded room
Russia’s future queen Catherine The Great also had to experience something similar during her terrible delivery. In 1754, Catherine was closed by Russian Queen Elizabeth in two small rooms of Summer Palace for weeks. Robert K. Massey wrote in ‘Catherine the Great’ that when Catherine gave birth to his son Paul, Queen Elizabeth immediately took the new successor with him. At that time, many courtiers including the Queen were full in the room. There was also a crowd outside the room.
This was because of this in the delivery of the Queen of England
In 1688, Mary Beatris, the Catholic wife of King James II of England, started to suffer childbirth only in six months of pregnancy. Protestant of England – Khaskar James’s first wife, Mary and Anne were unhappy with this marriage. Even more, he was afraid that such a male heir should not be born who would take the place of women in the tradition of succession.
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To ensure the complete details of birth could be recorded correctly, James II gathered a crowd of witnesses in the delivery room. At the same time, he left him to comment that by the grace of God, a prince may be born there. At that time, the royal midwife who was called to give birth to the child arrived very late. By then a child named James was born.
There was evidence of the birth of a child before time
The men missed the babysitter delivery. Nevertheless, he was asked to confirm the royal authenticity of the child. He announced – I am very sure that no incident like bringing an unknown child has happened in front of my eyes.
Nevertheless, all these precautions did not have any significant impact. Many protestants, including Anne and Mary, refused to believe that the child born prematurely was not a changed child. This widely prevalent rumor was one of the main reasons for overthrowing James II in the revolution of that year.
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Gradually, this tradition of royal families continued to end. The matter of giving birth to a child publicly in front of a crowd of courtiers became completely private. Along with this, the terrible pain caused to the queens during delivery also started to decrease.
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