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Happy 43rd Birthday 🎂 Zara Tindall

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Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, who died suddenly after a long illness, Septebmber 19, at Spa, Belgium, in the palace where she had lived in retirement for the last five years, is said to have been the unhappiest queen in Europe. The pictures usually published of this unfortunate woman give no intimation of the extent to which her many sorrows had actually worn upon her, as they were all taken while she still possessed the health and beauty for which she was formerly noted. The accompanying recent photograph of her is interdicted by King Leopold II, because he does not wish to have it generally known how greatly his queen had suffered from domestic infeelicity. Marie Henriette, born August 23, 1836, was the eldest daughter of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, and Marie Dorothea, Princess of Wurtemburg, and the great-granddaughter of the famous Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Her father died when she was ten years old, and the young archduchess was reared in quiet simplicity with her sister, Elizabeth, of whom the Queen-Regent of Spain is the daughter. In 1853 King Leopold I of Belgium accompanied by his young son and heir, Leopold, Duke of Brabant, visited the court of Austria. Duke Leopold fell in love with the young Archduchess Marie Henriette, then but seventeen years old. Their wedding was celebrated with great pomp and magnificence in August of the same year, and for a time the marriage seemed to be a happy one. The Queen's first sorrow was on account of the death of her son, the young Duke of Brabant, in January, 1869, when he was ten years old. This was four years after her husband has succeeded his father as King Leopold II. For many years the King and Queen lived virtually a life of separation. Queen Marie Henriette's unhappy lot brought her into the sympathy of her husband's subjects. Her next affliction was caused by the conduct of her daughter, Princess Louise, who was married to Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It was she who had the scandalous escaped with Lieutenant Keglevitch of the Austrian hussars. Her lover was imprisoned and she was declared insane and confined in a lunatic asylum. Her husband obtained a decree of divorce. The second daughter, the Crown Princess Stephanie, lost her first husband, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, in a shocking tragedy at Mayerling in 1889. In 1900 the Princess Stephanie incurred the displeasure of her father by her marriage with Elmer, Count of Lonyay. King Leopold refused to permit this marriage to be legalized, and the king has been so bitter against his daughter ever since that he even excluded her from the funeral ceremonies of her mother, though the Princess had the sympathy of the people of Belgium, and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria had approved of the marriage that King Leopold openly designated as a misalliance. Even years before Queen Marie Henriette had to suffer such humiliation from the misdemeanors of her daughters, and the wild gossip about them which was spread through every city of Europe, the excution in 1867, of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, was a terrible blow to her, as she had been one of those kinsfolk of his who had urged him to accept the Mexican throne. Still more of a grief was the fact that the overthrow and execution of the Emperor Maximilian drove insane his Empress, Charlotte, who is the sister of King Leopold II. Undoubtedly the recent summary action of the dissolute young King Alfonso in expelling from the court of Spain his mother, niece of Queen Marie Henriette, in order that he might pursue his origes unchecked by the restraining influence of the Queen-Regent, was a severe shock to the unfortunate Queen of the Belgians. But the half has not yet been told of the sources of the many sorrows of the late Queen. The worst she had to bear was in the character of her husband. In the case of King Leopold II, the dignity of age does not conceal a multitude of follies. At the age of sixty-seven years this king is one of the gayest profligates in Europe, and in his many amours he has apparently lost all sense of shame. After his relations with the Princess de Chimay and Mlle. Cleo de Merode had become notorious, he thought nothing of bringing to the palace these women, who are only his best-known favorites, and presenting them to the late queen. He used to insist upon the reception of the Princess de Chimay even after the scandal became so flagrant that when she appeared at a royal party she was avoided as if she were a leper. When the the Belgian authorities forced Mlle. De Merode to leave Brussels, King Leopold followed her to Paris. Clericals and socialists in the Belgian chamber denounced him openly for his immorality. In the low resorts of London and Paris he is well known. The way he is now protecting the great gambling institutes that have sprung up in his domain seems to indicate an ambition to make Ostend superior to Monte Carlo as a gamblers' paradise. When his conduct became intolerable the late Queen Marie broke out in righteous wrath and indignation and made preparations to leave for her home in Austira; but she was held to her servitude by the pressure brought to bear by all the sovereigns of Europe. The publicity of Leopold's intrigues with Emiliene d'Alencon and Mlle de Merode, both of whom he brought from Paris and established in sumptuous quarters at Brussels, was the probably the main cause of the queen's attempt at suicide. King Leopold II has won a great deal of praise by possessing himself of the Congo Free State. In this enterprise he squandered the whole fortune of his demented sister, the ex-Empress Charlotte. Although, what with illness and domestic troubles, Queen Marie Henriette had known few pleasant days in her life, she had always taken great interest in religion and philanthropy. On account of her great piety Pope Leo XIII sent her the golden rose of virtue, a consecrated gift and the highest token of papal esteem for the children of the church. She had also been a patroness of art. She had herself painted some good canvases. She was fond of music and could play skilfully upon the piano and the harp. Driven to the entertainment of herself by her own methods in her retired life in the palace of Spa, she became expert in many things, even sleight-of-hand, which she learned from Hermann the magician. In her young days she was an excellent equestrienne. During her retirement at Spa she kept many fine horses and dogs. The only other surviving child of King Leopold and Queen Marie Henriette is the unmarried Princess Clementine, who was born in 1872. The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is the young Prince Albert, a great favorite of the late Queen, and whose father, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold II, has renounced his right to the throne in favor of his son.

Ivan C. Waterbury, The World To-day, 1903

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Mary Catholic Queen of Scot Rightful Ruler of England

What could have been? It is likely this question came to the mind of the forty-four-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and the rightful queen of England, on the morning of February 8, 1587, as she awaited her execution at the hands of English Protestants. Her tragic story is not well known (many confuse her with “Bloody Mary” or Mary Tudor, who reigned as Queen of England from 1553-1558)

Her story begins with the end of another Mary. Mary Tudor, the daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, died in September 1558. Mary Tudor restored the Catholic Faith to England after the schismatic and heretical actions of her father and half-brother, King Edward VI. English Catholics lived in fear that Mary Tudor’s death would bring her Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth (the daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn), to the throne. The fact that Mary Tudor’s marriage to Prince Philip of Spain did not produce a child exacerbated these fears.

English Catholics’ worst nightmare became reality when Mary Tudor died, and Elizabeth ascended the throne and began the first state-sponsored persecution of the Catholic Church since the Roman Empire. Elizabeth’s claim to the throne was illegitimate in Catholic eyes, since her father’s “marriage” to Anne Boleyn was invalid (Pope Clement VII upheld the validity of his marriage bond to Catherine of Aragon in 1534). The legitimate successor to the English throne was the sixteen-year-old Mary Stuart, who was the granddaughter of Henry Tudor’s eldest sister, Margaret.

Mary Stuart had been Queen of Scots since 1542 (at only six days old!) when her father, James V, died fighting an English invasion army. While a toddler, Mary was taken out of Scotland for her safety and was settled in France, the home country of her mother (Mary de Guise). Betrothed to the Dauphin Francis, Mary Stuart became queen consort of France in 1559 when Francis was crowned king after the premature death of Henry II (who died from a wound suffered during a knightly tournament). Sadly, Francis II died seventeen months later from an ear infection. The king’s mother, Catherine de’ Medici, reigned as regent, and Mary decided to return to Scotland in August 1561.

The tall, beautiful young widow came ashore to a troubled Scotland. The Protestant revolutionary John Knox, who had spent time studying under John Calvin in Geneva, was on a mission to destroy the Catholic Church in Scotland and institute Calvinist teachings and ordinances. Mary, a Catholic, had to tread carefully with the Protestant Knox, who was extremely popular and had many noble friends. Knox disliked Mary and her faith and found female rule an abomination and contrary to God’s will (he wrote a treatise in 1558 titled The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women). Eventually, Mary confronted Knox (played brilliantly by David Tennant in the new movie) and asked whether he wished to make war against her. Knox replied that he was as content to live under her reign as St. Paul was to live under Nero.

Within two years of Mary’s return, Knox preached publicly that she should convert to Protestantism or face execution. Enemies surrounded Mary. She received little support from her traitorous and cowardly half-brother, James Stuart, the Earl of Moray, and had to contend with English interference orchestrated by Elizabeth’s secretary of state, William Cecil. Although the lack of a legitimate rival to Mary helped maintain her power and authority, it was a tenuous reign.

Mary realized she needed to marry a strong Catholic prince to solidify her rule, but Knox and others agitated against it. She ignored the opposition and married her first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in the summer of 1565. Darnley was tall, handsome, and Catholic (but an English subject), and Mary became infatuated with him soon after their first meeting. Mary found support for her marriage to Darnley from David Riccio, her Italian secretary. Many Scottish nobles disliked Riccio’s influence with Mary, and in February 1566 convinced Darnley that Riccio was Mary’s secret lover (the movie instead portrays Darnley and Riccio as homosexual lovers). Darnley conspired with the nobles and agreed to Riccio’s murder in Mary’s presence in March.

A few months after witnessing the horrific and brutal death of her friend, Mary gave birth to a boy she named James in June 1566. The boy, baptized Catholic but raised Protestant, was destined to rule both Scotland and England as James VI and I, as his mother should have been able to do. Unfortunately, Mary was denied the right to raise her son in the Faith due to political events, as she was forced to flee Scotland once again when the child was only ten months old.

Eventually, a group of nobles, including James Hepburn, Fourth Earl of Bothwell, murdered the conspiring and cowardly Lord Darnley at Kirk o’ Field in February 1568. Bothwell then abducted Mary and forced her to marry him for protection in May 1568. Later that summer, Scottish nobles finally succeeded in what they had tried to accomplish for the last seven years: the abdication of Mary as queen. Her infant son was crowned king of Scotland, and Mary was imprisoned in Lochleven castle. With the help of a small number of supporters, she escaped and made the puzzling choice to seek refuge in England rather than certain safety in France. Perhaps Mary believed she might be able to raise an army with the help of her cousin Elizabeth.

It was a fatal error in judgment. Viewed with suspicion because of her legitimate claim to the English throne, Mary was imprisoned in limited house arrest and carefully watched for the next nineteen years.

Elizabeth resisted the urgings of Cecil and others to execute Mary until she was (falsely) implicated in a plot to assassinate the queen in 1586 (and even then, Elizabeth hesitated). Mary was beheaded early in 1587. Her death, in part, caused King Philip II of Spain, who had pledged protection to Mary, to initiate the Spanish Armada (which was also launched to end the persecution of Catholics in England).

Mary’s sufferings surely must have caused her to question the events of her life and to ask what could have been. However, she held fast to her Faith in the end and recognized that events in life occur for a reason and are guided by God’s providential goodness, love, and mercy. She exhibited this strong faith in her last words: “All this world is but vanity and full of troubles and sorrows. Even as thy arms, O Jesus, were spread here upon the cross, so receive me into thy arms of mercy and forgive me all my sins” (quoted in Warren H. Carroll, The Cleaving of Christendom, 419).

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Prince George was born on 20 December 1902 at York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England.[1] His father was the Prince of Wales (later King George V), the only surviving son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

His mother was the Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary), the only daughter and eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. At the time of his birth, he was fifth in the line of succession to the throne, behind his father and three older brothers Edward, Albert and Henry.

George was baptised in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on 26 January 1903 by Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford. Prince George, Duke of Kent died August 29, 1942 in a plane crash in Scotland. He is currently buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore

Princess Marina was born on 13 December 1906 in Athens, Greece, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George I. She was the third and youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, and his wife Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. Her father was the third son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, while her mother was the only daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Her father was a grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, while her mother was a granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

The wedding of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark took place on Thursday, 29 November 1934 at Westminster Abbey. Notice a young Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II was in the wedding party. The Duke of Kent was the fourth son of King George V and Princess Mary of Teck, while Princess Marina was the youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. The couple were second cousins through mutual descent from King Christian IX of Denmark. As Princess Marinas's cousin, Prince Philip, renounced his Greek and Danish titles prior to marrying Prince George's niece, then Princess Elizabeth, this is the most recent example of a marriage between a British prince or princess and a titled member of a foreign dynasty.

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was first cousins with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince George and Princess Marina, The Duke and Duchess of Kent and their three children Prince Edward, Prince Michael, and Princess Alexandra

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Prince Philip: The Early Years.

Prince Philip: The Early Years of the spouse of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born on 10 June 1921 in the dining room of Mon Repos, the Corfu summer home of his parents, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (the second youngest son of King George I of the Hellenes) and his English-born wife, Alice, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and eldest daughter of the first Marquess of Milford Haven, a former First Sea Lord of the Royal…

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Great Grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh:

Miss Savannah Anne Kathleen Philips, age 10, daughter of Peter Philips, Granddaughter of The Princess Royal, currently 17th in succession

Miss Isla Elizabeth Philips, age 8, daughter of Peter Philips, Granddaughter of The Princess Royal, currently 19th in succession

Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, age 7 years, elder son of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, eldest biological grandson of The Prince of Wales, currently 3rd in succession

Miss Mia Grace Tindall, age 6 years, elder daughter of Zara Philips-Tindall, granddaughter of The Princess Royal, currently 21st in succession

Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge, age 5 years, only daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, only biological granddaughter of The Prince of Wales, currently 4th in succession

Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge, age 2 years, youngest win of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, second biological grandson of The Prince of Wales, currently 5th in succession

Miss Lena Elizabeth Tindall, age 2 years, younger daughter of Zara Philips-Tindall, granddaughter of The Princess Royal, currently 22nd in succession

Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, age 21 months, son of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, third biological grandson of The Prince of Wales, currently 7th in succession

Master August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, born 9 February 2021, son of Princess Eugenie, Mrs. Jack Brooksbank, first grandson of The Duke of York, currently 10th in succession

Master Lucas Philip Tindall, Born 21 March 2021, third child of Zara Philips-Tindall, 22nd in succession

Miss Lilbet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor,  (2021) second child of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex,  7th in succession

Miss Sienna Elizabeth Mapple Mozzi (2021), first child of Princess Beatrice and Eddo Mapple Mozzi, currently 

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On This Day In Royal History . 24 May 1854 . Prince Louis of Battenberg was born . Louis was born as Ludwig Alexander von Battenberg in Graz, Styria, the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke. . ◼ Although born in Austria, & brought up in Italy & Germany, he enrolled in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy at the age of fourteen. Queen Victoria & her son King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, occasionally intervened in his career: the Queen thought that there was “a belief that the Admiralty are afraid of promoting Officers who are Princes on account of the radical attacks of low papers & scurrilous ones”. However, Louis welcomed assignments that provided opportunities for him to acquire the skills of war & to demonstrate to his superiors that he was serious about his naval career. . ◼ Posts on royal yachts & tours arranged by the Queen & Edward actually impeded his progress, as his promotions were perceived as undeserved royal favours. .. ◼ After a naval career lasting more than forty years, in 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service. With World War I looming, he took steps to ready the British fleet for combat, but his background as a German prince forced his retirement once the war began, when anti-German sentiment was running high. He changed his name & relinquished his German titles, at the behest of King George V, in 1917. .. ◼ He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, & was the father of Queen Louise of Sweden & Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who also served as First Sea Lord from 1954 to 1959. . ◼ He is the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #theyear1854 #d24may #OnThisDay #PrinceLouis #LouisofBattenberg #History #AdmiraloftheFleet #RoyalNavy #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Prince #historians #Navy #Otd #bornonthisday #dreadnaught #royals #RoyalFamily #Vintagephoto #vintagephotography #RoyalCollection #Mountbatten #Historyfacts (at Graz, Austria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlEFaZD90i/?igshid=oez67gn10pk7

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Biography of Queen Isabella

Early Life

Born 1 November 1992 in Geneva Switzerland to Archduke Carl Christian of Austria & Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg later Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria. Archduchess Isabella Maria Anna Charlotte Elisabeth Ingeborg of Austria was the 5th of what would later become 6 children. With an older sister, three older brothers, and a younger sister Archduchess Isabella's life was filled with many close family members. Archduchess Isabella was christened in Zwiefalten Abbey in Baden-Wuttermberg, Germany. Her godparents were Queen Fabiola of the Belgians, Alois, Hereditary Prince & now Regent of Liechtenstein, and Maria Teresa, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg then The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Two are usually chosen to be godparents, but Maria Teresa, later The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg was added to be a godparent after saving Archduchess Marie Astrid's life during her pregnancy with Isabella. Upon her baptism, Queen Fabiola of the Belgians called her "petite reine" which a nickname that her grandmother Josephine Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg picked up soon after. Isabella grew up in Geneva with 5 other siblings while her father was a banker and her mother worked for the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family as the daughter of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.  

Isabella's childhood was spent with her 5 other siblings, parents, and over 3 dozen cousins from Liechtenstein, Austria, Luxembourg, and Belgium. Her childhood was spent in Switzerland with holidays to Luxembourg, France, Spain, and Belgium. She spoke German and French in her early years and learned English and Spanish as a young girl. Though she does speak Dutch, Luxembourgish, Russian and Italian, those are not fluent languages that Isabella uses often. Isabella was sent to a boarding school in Kent, England where she was educated for 4 years until moving to Virginia, United States to another boarding school. Isabella went to Sevenoaks School in Kent, England alongside Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este.

Archduchess Isabella went to Yale University and graduated in 2014 with a Master's Degree in Global Affairs and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. Her summer's during college where spent in third world nations with 2 different humanitarian groups alongside her cousin Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg. After her graduation Isabella immediately returned to Geneva where she began working for her father only to leave that job a couple of weeks later and began her work with the United Nations as a Human Rights Officer.

Marriage

Mid 2016 it was revealed that Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Harry of Wales were well into their own relationship that was reported to have started in November of 2014 while Isabella was working for her father. This would later have said to be false but none in the British Royal Family would confirm if the marriage was indeed arranged at the time.

Prince Harry and Archduchess Isabella announced their engagement in January of 2017 with a wedding to be in the summer of that same year. The two became engaged at Fischbach Castle in Luxembourg during the Christmas holiday in the presence of the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family and extended family. The wedding took place at St. Paul's Cathedral with 3200 guests in attendance. A majority being over 500 descendants of Robert I, Duke of Parma, who was the twice great-great-grandfather of Archduchess Isabella.  

The wedding party, was the largest ever seen in a British Royal Family wedding at the time. Excluding the maid of honor, Archduchess Isabella and Prince Harry had 12 bridal attendants, 6 boys and 6 girls, all godchildren and family friends of the bride and groom. The maid of honor was chosen as Princess Charlotte of Nassau, a first cousin of Archduchess Isabella and a great-great-granddaughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Victoria Eugenie. Other attendants included Princess Eleonore of Belgium, daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium; Countess Xenia von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Granddaughter of Vincenz Liechtenstein; Archduchess Maria Stella of Austria, Isabella’s niece by her brother Archduke Imre; Archduchess Zita of Austria, Great-Granddaughter of Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria; Princess Florence of Ligne, Granddaughter of Alix, Dowager Princess of Ligne; Prince Gabriel of Nassau, son of Prince Louis of Luxembourg; Count Rodolfo Secco de Aragona, Grandson of Archduke Rudolf of Austria; Archduke Luigi of Austria-Este, Grandson of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este; Prince Valerian of Lobowicz, Grandson of Andrea von Habsburg; and Japer Dyer, son of Mark Dyer. The wedding was estimated to be watched by over half a billion people, making it one of the most watched events in British history.

House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the main and cadet branches of the House of Bourbon made up a majority of guests as relations to Archduchess Isabella. Other German, Danish, Dutch, Luxembourgish, and Belgian nobility were also invited as family of bride.

On the morning of the wedding Prince Harry was made Duke of Sussex, Earl of Ross, and Baron Hartland. Because Isabella was born an Archduchess of Austria and her title being higher than that of a Duchess, Isabella was formally introduced as Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Duchess of Sussex, Countess Ross, and Baroness Hartland. Buckingham Palace then issued a statement that Isabella will still be addressed as Archduchess and not Duchess, but her titles by marriage will also be used when formally addressed.

Children

December of 2017 Clarence House released a statement that Archduchess Isabella and Prince Harry were expecting a child in the summer of 2018, later Prince Harry revealed that no one in the royal family knew per request to keep everything as quite as possible. Clarence House released a statement that Archduchess Isabella gave birth at Château de Belœil in the early morning of 24 of May. A statement was released of the two boys named Charles Henry Ferdinand Baudouin Jean Philip, Earl of Ross and Lord Albert Maximilian Christian Leopold Felix Ludwig. The Earl of Ross’s godparents included Mark Dyer, King Philippe of Belgium, Jake Warern, Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein, Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Prince Seesio. Lord Albert godparents were Princess Beatrice of York, Prince Henri Antoine of Ligne, Edward Lane Fox, Alexander Fellowes, Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, and Princess Maria Gabriella of Orleans-Braganza.

With their birth, pressure was put on the British monarchy to make them Princes, rather than lord because their parents' marriage was dynastic to the older generation. Due to being the children of the Duke of Sussex, any children from their marriage were not given the title of Prince. All of Prince Harry's children born during the reign of their great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II would have the title of Lord and Lady with the eldest son receiving the subsidiary title of Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex. Jean, the former Grand Duke of Luxembourg advised his son, Isabella's uncle, Henri Grand Duke of Luxembourg, to recognize the Dukedom of Sussex into the Luxembourg nobility and allow them to have his great-grandchildren to have title of Prince and Princess. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg was to give all children of Archduchess Isabella, the title of Prince/Princess of Sussex in Luxembourg nobility. By government advisement, the Grand Duke did not bestow any titles.

A second pregnancy was announced in November 2018. During Archduchess Isabella's second pregnancy, Isabella and Prince Harry to moved out of Kensington Palace and to St. James’ Palace to accommodate their growing family. May 26, 2019 Archduchess Isabella gave birth to Mary-Astrid Jeanne Zita Ingeborg Josephine Christine Diane at Berg Castle in Luxembourg. Mary Astrid's godparents included Archduchess Marie Christine, Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Viscount Althrop, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Sophie Countess of Wessex, and Arthur Landon.

During the early months of 2020, Grand Duchess Olga Petrovna of Russia, Princess of Prussia was found dead in a villa off the coast of Italy. Grand Duchess Olga and Archduchess Isabella had been second cousins and the unexpected death of the Russian Grand Duchess came to a shock to the Habsburg family. The younger woman had reportedly suffered a third miscarriage and in the state of depression had killed herself leaving behind a 2-year-old daughter, Grand Duchess Maria-Olga of Russia, Princess of Prussia. Archduchess Isabella attempted to adopt Grand Duchess Maria-Olga but was met with failure.

In March of 2021, Buckingham Palace issued a statement that Archduchess Isabella and Prince Harry were expecting a fourth child in the fall of the year just a year after Archduchess Isabella's grandmother, Archduchess Yolande of Austria died. Isabella gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth Alexandra Gabriella Annunciata Charlotte Theresa on September 18 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. This was Archduchess Isabella's third at home birth. Elisabeth's godparents were Archduke Alexander, Queen Elizabeth II, Lady Kitty Spencer, Princess Eugenie of York, Princess Charlotte of Nassau, and Charles von Straubenzee.  

Archduchess Isabella gave birth to another daughter, named Alice Margaretha Yolande Sophia Louise Christabel on December 25, 2023 at Sandringham House in Norfolk. Alice's godparents were Archduke Imre, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Nassau, Archduchess Helene of Austria, Tom Inskip, Anne Princess Royal, and George McCorquodale. More children quickly followed including a second pair of twin sons, Robert Paul Christoph Sebastien Francis Constantin and Nicholas Xavier Gabriel Wenceslas Patrick Rudolf on November 1, 2023. Two more sons followed Joseph Arthur Edward Alexander Otto Ernst in July 4, 2026 and Michael Frederick Emanuel Vincent Thomas Johannes in June 20, 2027.

The large number of children caused minor public upset for a couple of years. King George VII, limited the role of Archduchess Isabella and Prince Harry including limiting their royal duties. After 2022, Prince Harry and Archduchess Isabella no longer received tax payer funding except when receiving compensation from representing the royal family. The family split their time between London, Scotland, and France where the younger children had been born.

Duchess of Sussex

Within months of her marriage, Archduchess Isabella proved to be a generous humanitarian, as her deceased mother-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales. Hurricane Maria during the 2017 Hurricane Season provided Isabella with a platform that expanded her patrons to include helping victims across the world of natural disasters. Isabella took a tour of The Caribbean, Mexico, and Southern United States for her first solo tour.

The Duchess of Sussex became a patron of over 30 charities shortly after her marriage including becoming joint patron of several of Prince Harry's patronages and others dealing with immigration, women's rights, natural disasters, and the arts.

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

On November 21, 2020, The Duke of Edinburgh died at Buckingham Palace in his sleep. Archduchess Isabella and Prince Harry moved into Windsor Castle from St. James’s Palace after The Duke of Edinburgh's death to stay closer to the Queen. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex became patron of many of the Duke of Edinburgh's charities as well as several of Queen Elizabeth's charities. With the Queen's health in question after the death of her husband, many believed that the British monarchy would be abolished in the event of her death.

Queen Elizabeth II died on December 17, 2021 at the Sandringham Estates in Norfolk, England. Upon her death, her eldest son Charles, Prince of Wales took George as his regnal name. With the death of Queen Elizabeth, all of the Duke of Sussex's children were given the title HRH Prince/ss of Sussex. The Duke of Sussex eldest children, the twins Charles and Albert, were just 3 years old. Soon thereafter, The Earl of Wessex was given the Dukedom of Edinburgh. The Duke of Cambridge was not given the title Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Sussex was not given the title Duke of York upon their father's accession for different reasonings. With King George VII's accession, the Sussex family toured North America on behalf of the king.

Reign of King George VII and William V

The reign of King George VII was a short eight years compared to his mother’s historic reign. King George died on March 1, 2029. William, Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge was to be named King William V. Days after the funeral, William issues letter patent taking his brother Prince Harry of his Royal Highness style and title of Prince of the United Kingdom. This change effected Harry’s children as well, making them styled as children of a duke rather than Prince of the United Kingdom.

The move proved to be unpopular with the general public and within the family. William removed the status of his cousins and uncles as members of the British Royal Family in an attempt to limit the House of Windsor to the descendants of the current king. This left William without family members to help him with the kingdom and commonwealth. Weeks of bad press had made put a strain on the monarchy and the government.

A constitutional change was suggested by King William to change the line of succession to just the descendants of the monarch, thus leaving thousands out of the line of succession. Because the line of succession was determined by an Act of Parliament in 1689 and 1701, Parliament would be the ones to change it in the less controversial way. The Prime Minister and Parliament agreed there would be no change in the line of succession.

King William tried to follow in the footsteps of King George V and his father King George VII in slimming down the monarchy. By taking away titles, William believed he was helping the monarchy and had his brother married a commoner, it would have been fine. But William’s sister-in-law was Archduchess Isabella, a relative to most of the European monarchies of Luxembourg, Belgium, Spain, Liechtenstein, and the Netherlands.

Advisors to the king suggested William abdicate in favor of his brother who was already living in France with his family but he of course rejected. By August, William was facing heavy opposition. The Luxembourgish court released a family photo of the descendants of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg for the 10th anniversary of his death which include Prince Harry and his large family. Other members of the family include Luxembourg royals and the future Prince Consorts of Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain.

Just months into his reign, William was faced with the task of becoming King of the United Kingdom finding it overwhelming. He complained about his duties, finding it easier to take holidays with his family. Louise, The Duchess of Bedford, wife of the 15th Duke of Bedford and Mistress of the Robes to Queen Camilla commented on the new king.

“I fear the new king knows nothing on how to lead nor listen. It will prove to be disastrous within the next couple of months, no doubt shaking this country to its very core. I have made up my mind that the women in this family should rule instead for they are the only ones with sane minds.”

William’s fate was sealed by that photo and the public started to demand Harry as king. Harry had connections and the celebrations of weddings, christening, and parties with Europe’s royals over the years brought back the nostalgia of 19th century Europe. It was Queen Isabella who had given him these connections and they would be an easy reason for William abdicated.

The Duchess of Bedford was hinting at an abdication in her diaries and several weeks later, King William V did abdicate. William’s Coronation was made for March of 2030 but he abdicated on December 3, 2029 in favor of his brother Harry, Duke of Sussex.  

Year of French Court

From the time William stripped his brother and his family of their titles, Archduchess Isabella immediately left London for France. Her family stayed in the Château de Chambord, that for several decades had been the property of Isabella. Days after losing the style of Her Royal Highness in the United Kingdom, Isabella threw a masquerade ball which attracted much press since a large number of royalty and nobility attended.

Lavish parties, famous guests, and endless nights had made the press dub King Henry and Queen Isabella’s time in France as the “Year of French Court”. This nickname was a contradiction since the time in France was actually 9 months and French Court refers to French Royal Court, the last of which was the Bourbon court of King Louis Philippe in the mid-19th century.  

King William’s court was the English Court bringing up an old rivalry between the French and the English. Unlike King Henry, whose last French ancestor was Claude of Valois, mother to the Tudor dynasty, his wife Queen Isabella ancestor included all French monarchs, save the Bonaparte's, although all Bonaparte’s were related by marriage. Queen Isabella had been related to every French monarch from the King of the Franks, Charlemagne to the last Bourbon, King Louis Philippe.

King Henry and Queen Isabella and their time in France was met with both high criticism and high praise. As private citizens, they could spend lavishly, but the chances of them being monarchs with the same type of spending left people to doubt them. The Château de Chambord became a popular destination for foreign royals who spent days to weeks at a time with Isabella and her family. All of Isabella’s son and daughter-in-law’s spent time at the château.

Several locations had become popular in Europe including Cabasson, France where the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family owned a villa; Prince’s Palace of Monaco in Monaco, and Pejačevič Castle in Croatia. Isabella’s time with her family had reminded many, especially historians, about the family gatherings that the Danish royal family had during 19th century.

Queen of the United Kingdom

Upon the abdication of King William V in 2029, Isabella became the first Habsburg consort since the 1554 marriage of Queen Mary I of England and the future King Philip II of Spain. The coronation intended for William was given to his brother. King Henry’s children were elevated to royal status again and the titles stripped away by William were given back including giving the Dukedom of Edinburg to Prince Edward again.

During the coronation at Westminster Abbey, the five eldest children Prince Charles, Prince Albert, Princess Mary-Astrid, Princess Elisabeth, and Princess Alice attended some of ceremony. During the photos all nine of their children were present. The coronation was attended by a large number of Queen Isabella’s family, many of whom were married to heirs and other foreign royalty.  

William and his family moved to Scotland and hours before the coronation, it was announced that William would not receive a dukedom but styled as William Mountbatten-Windsor, 1st Baronet Mountbatten-Windsor of Inverness. It was a hereditary title but with little significance so William could not get a following to recover the throne. It was on the advice of the British government that the title was revoked at the end of the year so William became Mr. William Mountbatten-Windsor at the beginning of 2031.

After the coronation a tour of the Commonwealth realms was ordered with included all nine children of King Henry and Queen Isabella. Isabella’s ability to speak multiple languages and years of working in disaster relief had pleased the public who found the new king and queen more likeable. Tours of Africa and later North America had kept the new royal family busy in the first couple of years.  

The death of Queen Camilla in 2025 during the reign of her husband, had left Isabella the undisputed matriarch of the British family. The children’s ability to speak no less than five languages had amused the public and immigrants who found speaking to royalty in their mother tongue comforting.

Between 2029-2052 Isabella’s family rose to more significance. In Belgium, her cousin Prince Paul Louis become Prince Consort of Belgium and Queen Isabella’s niece Beatrice married Paul Louis’s son, Leopold, Duke of Brabant. In the Netherlands, Isabella’s cousin Prince Leopold became Prince Consort of the Netherlands and her nephew Joseph was engaged to Leopold’s daughter Charlotte, Princess of Orange. In Spain Queen Isabella’s cousin Prince Jean became the Prince Consort of Spain. Queen Isabella’s nephew Count Leopold married Crown Princess Estelle of Sweden. Queen Isabella’s second daughter married Prince Franz Joseph of Liechtenstein, future heir to the principality. Her niece Victoria married Jacques of Monaco, who at the time was Hereditary Prince of Monaco then the next year became The Prince of Monaco. In Luxembourg, the country was ruled by her uncle Henri, cousin Guillaume and his child.  

Perhaps the most importance was the reestablishment of the monarchy in Croatia and Russia. In 2035 after the assassination of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian people brought back the monarchy with Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia as their Tsar. His eldest daughter Maria-Olga had married Queen Isabella’s second son Albert in 2038. Tsar George died in 2043 and his successor was his son-in-law Grand Duke Alexander, formally Albert. Queen Isabella’s role as mother to the future King of the United Kingdom and Tsar of Russia was a point in history no could have predicted. By 2045 Croatia voted overwhelmingly to bring back their monarchy as well with Ferdinand von Habsburg as their king. Ferdinand was married to Isabella’s cousin, Princess Charlotte for already 25 years producing five children, including 4 sons which mirrored Charlotte’s own life as the only girl.

Queen Isabella was consort to King Henry IX for 23 years before her death of Dec 29, 2052. The couple had been married for 35 years and had nine children together.

Assassination Attempt

While in Monaco in 2052 for the royal family’s annual holiday to Monaco, Queen Isabella had fallen ill delaying the British Royal Family’s departure from the Chateau de Chambord. The British Royal Family had stayed in France for another week before leaving to Monaco. By that time, many of the other European monarchies had left to the respective homes.

In the middle of the day a man managed to sneak into the Monaco Princely Palace in an attempt to assassinate Queen Isabella. The assassin wanted to kill King Henry and Queen Isabella believing the rightful King and Queen were William and Catherine. King Henry was not with Queen Isabella but with her niece Princess Gabriella and nephew by marriage Jacques, The Prince of Monaco.  

Attempting to assassinate the king and queen, King Henry was with his younger children who had fallen sick after their mother. Queen Isabella was on a walk with her niece and nephew who was going to announce their own ninth pregnancy the day after. Queen Isabella was asked to be godmother to their ninth child. The assassin lunged for Queen Isabella with a knife only to be blocked by The Prince of Monaco. Amongst the fight, Princess Victoria ran for help but Jacques had been stabbed and later died in the hospital. Queen Isabella did not die that day but several months later, as she died in a car accident in France.  

Romances

On January 1, 2034 the official biography, letters, and interviews of Queen Fabiola of Belgium were released to the public. A frequent mention in Queen Fabiola’s writing include her goddaughter and great-niece Queen Isabella had interested the public. In these letters and interviews Queen Fabiola mentioned the relationship Queen Isabella had with her double second cousin Prince Joachim of Belgium. It was revealed that Prince Joachim was Queen Isabella’s first everything.

“I pray to God that one day I will live to my petite reine marry a good man. Joachim is a sweet boy in love but I doubt they will marry. Belle is heard strong and filled with passion I doubt Joachim can keep her happy for very long.”

Queen Fabiola’s biography gave unprecedented knowledge on Queen Isabella’s childhood. Besides the mention of Queen Isabella, her family, especially her parents Archduke Carl Christian and Princess Marie Astrid were written and spoken about often. Pictures from Queen Fabiola’s family album confirmed the relationship between Queen Isabella and Prince Joachim during their teen years. It was not known when the relationship started or ended.

Queen Isabella’s marriage to Prince Harry, later King Henry IX came to a shock to many. The marriage was arranged but came to be a marriage of respect and admiration. After a couple of years of marriage, Queen Isabella began an affair with Count Johann Kinsky of Wchinitz und Tettau, a distant relative of Marie and Georgina, The Princesses of Liechtenstein and King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands. Count Johann Kinsky was a financial advisor to Queen Isabella working in France at Chateau de Chambord.  

The affair lasted only a couple of months with it ending in Count Johann’s resignation from Chambroad and his elevation in the Liechtenstein princely family. Often speculated, Count Johann’s new position in Liechtenstein was a way of ending the affair and keep the counts silence too While King Henry and Queen Isabella marriage wasn’t the same after the first affair, it took years before she took another man as her lover.  

It was not until after the birth of her last child, Prince Michael that Queen Isabella began a second affair. Heinreich Donatus, The Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe was a minor German prince whom Queen Isabella had met briefly years before. Common weddings brought the two together but Heinreich Donatus friendship with the Princes Wenceslas and Constantin kept him in closer ranger. Prince Heinreich Donatus moved from Germany to France near Chambord to be near the queen. The affair was brief, only lasting about 2 years before Queen Isabella moved on.  

Maximilian, 9th Prince of Wied was introduced to Queen Isabella by Prince Heinreich Donatus in 2030. Prince Maximilian had been married and later divorced with 2 sons when he met Queen Isabella. Like Prince Heinreich Donatus, Prince Maximilian moved his family to France so he could be in close proximity to the queen. This affair had lasted a little over 5 years before Queen Isabella had gone back to Prince Heinreich Donatus. Between 2036-2040 Queen Isabella continued to her affair with The Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe.  

Queen Isabella’s affairs were few and long. After 2041, Isabella remained faithful to her husband but damage had already been done. The couple lived separate lives, only coming together for family events and public engagements. Unknown to the public, King Henry and Queen Isabella spent much time apart. Unlike Count Johann and Princes Heinreich Donatus and Maximilian, an affair with Prince Joachim of Belgium was never confirmed, but highly speculated.

Legacy

Every monarch in Europe descends from Queen Isabella and her husband, King Henry IX. As her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren married into various royal families over the decades, almost every royal of a working monarchy, descend from Queen Isabella. King Henry IX and Queen Isabella had 9 children, 47 grandchildren, and 211 great-grandchildren.

Although having a large number of descendants, many of Queen Isabella’s family had converted to Catholicism thus baring themselves and their descendants from the British line of succession. Of her nine children, only four children and their descendants have succession rights. Two of her daughters and three sons converted to Catholicism shortly before each of their respective marriages.  

One of Queen Isabella’s lasting legacy is her large collection of jewelry. Many of the tiaras in the Queen Isabella’s Fund came from donations by women such as Princess Charlotte Murat. Other pieces of jewelry were bought by Queen Isabella which were owned by various Habsburgs during the Imperial era.  

Unlike her predecessors, Queen Isabella bought many jewels from the Gloucester, Kent, Fife, and Harewood families but they did not go back to the crown as they were personal purchases. Personal purchases meant they were to the Queen Isabella Fund to be used by her female descendants and not by the British royal family. This meant that all jewelry was not kept to Queen Isabella’s British descendants but could be worn by her other descendants in other reigning and deposed monarchies.

While most of the tiaras have not been shown to the public it is an estimated number of tiaras and jewelry by experts and the public. Queen Isabella’s female descendants had worn a large portion of the tiaras but dozens are still speculated to remain hidden from the public eye. Queen Isabella’s tenure as Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, she rarely wore tiaras belonging to the British Royal Family and preferred her own tiaras.

A documentary of the 100th anniversary of Queen Isabella's death revealed that the tiaras are organized in tiers. There is a total of five tiers that the descendants of Queen Isabella must abide by ranging from descendants who are queens, both born and married into, who come from non-dynastic backgrounds. Tier One is for Queen or Queen Consorts born of a dynastic marriage and marry dynastically. Tier Two is for Crown Princesses born of a dynastic marriage and marry dynastically. Tier Three is for Princesses born of a dynastic marriage and marry dynastically, daughters born of princesses belonging to Queen Isabella’s descendants who marry foreign counts, barons, or duke of dynastic background are also entitled. Tier Four is for female descendants who hold no titles. Tier Five is for non-dynastic in-laws from families who do not come from a royal or noble family.

Queen Victoria was seen as the beginning of hemophilia. The hereditary disease that helped bring down the Russian Imperial Throne and Spanish Royal Throne were passed through women. The disease took Queen Victoria’s son Leopold, several grandsons, and several great-grandsons. Through the decades, the disease made no reappearance but plagued the royal house through books and cultural depictions.

Queen Isabella was no exception in beginning her own hereditary trait, but this one was less deadly than the one Queen Victoria passed on. Partial or Central Heterochromia is an eye condition where areas of the same iris contain two completely different colors or there are two colors in the same iris. The disease could be passed through males or females and in the case of Queen Isabella, she passed it on to her daughters Princess Mary-Astrid and Princess Alice along with her sons Princes Nicholas, Joseph and Michael.  

By 2150, the hereditary disease was prominent in all monarchy finding the carrier was Queen Isabella. Queen Isabella herself had a faint case of Central Heterochromia though it is not clear which parents she got it from. The mismatched eyes became a physical staple of 21st and 22nd-century royalty.

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Zara Tindall, 39, is expecting her third child with husband Mike Tindall in 2021. Mike revealed the happy news on Wednesday during an episode of his rugby podcast and shared his excitement at becoming a father again. While Zara and Mike are much-treasured members of the Royal Family they are not working royals and are less bound by protocol than more senior members of the Firm.

Why Zara Tindall and Mike’s children don’t have royal titles

Zara is Queen Elizabeth II, 94, and Prince Philip’s, 99, eldest granddaughter and is a much-loved member of the Windsor clan.

But unlike their royal cousins Prince Harry, 36, and Prince William, 38, Zara and her brother Peter were raised outside the royal bubble.

Zara’s mother Princess Anne, 70, rejected the Queen’s offer of royal titles for her children choosing to raise them as private citizens instead.

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Princess Anne was never considered an heir to the throne as her position in the line of succession was behind her three brothers Prince Charles, 72, Prince Andrew, 60, and Prince Edward, 56.

This meant Anne’s offspring were never destined to be senior royals and by choosing not to give them royal titles she allowed them more freedom.

Zara and Mike already have two daughters – Mia, six, and Lena, two, neither of whom have official titles.

The daughters also go by their father Mike Tindall’s surname rather than the Mountbatten-Windsor last name used by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son Archie Harrison.

He added: “As the great-grandson of the sovereign, he, like Prince Charles before him, would have been born without royal style or title under George V’s Warrant of 1917.

“Just as her father had done it took the Queen issuing Letters Patent to remedy the situation.”

Unlike their second cousins Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, Zara’s children are low down the line of succession and are not expected to reign.

Prince George is third in line to the throne after his father Prince William and is one day expected to be king.

Therefore it was important that Queen changed the law to allow him a title so that he was not “born a commoner.”

Mia and Lena Tindall are currently 19th and 20th in line to the throne.

They will shift down a spot following the birth of Princess Eugenie’s royal baby early next year.

Their younger sibling is expected to be born next spring and is most likely to be 22nd in line to the throne.

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Kensington Palace confirmed the royal baby news and announced that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is expecting to deliver in the spring of 2019. She and Prince Harry wed in May. USA TODAY

Duchess Meghan of Sussex with Prince Harry greeted crowds during a visit to Birkenhead in northwest England, Jan. 14, 2019.

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Royalty is proving fruitful these days: Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s news Monday that they expect a baby in the spring means another new cousin will join Queen Elizabeth II’s growing gaggle of great-grandchildren.

Soon, there will be eight little royals to delight the 92-year-old monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, 97.

The news was announced by Kensington Palace just as Harry and Meghan were arriving to start their Down Under tour of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga. 

This baby is going to be historic, says Victoria Arbiter, daughter of a former royal press secretary, who is now CNN’s royals contributor. 

“There’s no question he or she is going to be gorgeous and adorable, half-American and of mixed-race heritage, so what a time to be witnesses to the royal family and history,” Arbiter says. “It does reflect on modern society: History is being made with this baby.”

What do we know so far?

When is the baby arriving?

Until January, the due date for the Sussex baby was vague: Sometime in “the spring,” the palace said. On Jan. 14, during a day trip with Harry to Birkenhead near Liverpool in northwest England. Meghan was chatty during a walkabout, greeting scores of fans while cradling her prominent belly.

In conversations with some of them, she let slip that she is six months along and that the baby is due in April and that, like Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge during their pregnancies, they don’t know the baby’s gender.  

“We asked her how her pregnancy was going and she said she was six months and she tapped her tummy,” Carla Gandy told People magazine’s reporter on the scene. 

In this image from video, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex arrive in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2018, a day before they start a 16-day tour of Australia and the South Pacific.

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ITV News reported Meghan talked of her due date with another woman, Eileen Ashurst, who told the outlet Meghan said the newest royal baby is expected in April.

And Angel Midgley told the BBC that Meghan said the couple is waiting until the baby is born to learn if it’s a boy or girl. 

Kensington Palace declined to comment on any of this to USA TODAY, but it’s probably safe to mark your calendars.

Who are the baby’s royal cousins?

The baby will be first cousin to Prince George, 5; Princess Charlotte, 3; and baby Prince Louis of Cambridge, almost 9 months, the children of uncle Prince William and Duchess Kate. 

Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank in wedding photos taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle with some of the queen’s great-grandchildren as bridesmaids and page boys: From left, back row: Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Theodora Williams, Isla Phillips, Louis De Givenchy. Front row, Mia Tindall, Savannah Phillips and Maud Windsor.

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The baby’s four second cousins include Mia Tindall, 4, and Lena Tindall, who was born in June to Harry’s cousin, Zara Phillips Tindall (the queen’s eldest granddaughter), and her husband Mike Tindall.

Also: Savannah Phillips, 7, and Isla Phillips, 6, the daughters of Zara’s brother, Peter Phillips, also Harry’s cousin and the queen’s eldest grandson. Both Zara and Peter are the children of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal.  

And Princess Eugenie of York, 28, the queen’s granddaughter and Harry’s cousin who married Jack Brooksbank on Friday, might be expected to produce royal great-grandchild Number 9 in the near future, too. That baby also would be a second cousin to Harry and Meghan’s baby. 

No morning sickness for Meghan?

Duchess Meghan of Sussex visits University of Chichester’s Engineering and Digital Technology Park during an official visit to Sussex on Oct. 3, 2018 in Bognor Regis, England.

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She just turned 37, so doctors consider this a “geriatric” pregnancy (when mom is over age 35) with a higher risk for miscarriage and other complications.

“Most geriatric pregnancies end up with a great outcome (healthy mom and baby) as long as there is a close monitoring in the prenatal period and during the pregnancy,” says Zaher Merhi, an ob-gyn doctor and director of research and development in IVF Technologies at New Hope Fertility Center in New York.

Still, it appears Meghan is not suffering from the acute morning sickness syndrome that felled her sister-in-law, Duchess Kate, during the early months of her three pregnancies.

Thus, Meghan was able to endure a long overseas flight to Australia before embarking on a grueling two weeks of traveling to public engagements in the Southern Hemisphere, where high temperatures can be expected.

Like Kate, Meghan is slim and she doesn’t show much of a baby bump in early stages. On Oct. 3, she wore a dark green leather skirt during an engagement; there wasn’t even a hint of a pregnancy.

That didn’t stop Twitter from speculating on what Meghan wore to Eugenie’s wedding: a loose-fitting, navy Givenchy coat, which could have hidden a baby bump.

Will the new baby be called a prince or princess? Something else?

Betting on whether the new little royal will be a boy or girl commenced immediately in Britain, where they bet on anything having to do with royals. More interesting is the question of whether the baby will be officially titled a prince or princess. 

The simple answer is it’s up to the queen. It also matters how far the child is to the throne. This baby will be 7th in line, just behind Harry, who is 6th in line, so he or she is unlikely to ever be crowned.

More: Where does the new prince fit in the line for the throne?

In hindsight, we’d really like to know what Harry was telling his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, at the wedding of his cousin, Princess Eugenie, on Oct. 12.

 (Photo: AARON CHOWN, AFP/Getty Images)

The rules on titles and “style” were last established by the queen’s grandfather, King George V, in 1917: They dictate that an HRH and title of prince or princess would be confined to children of the sovereign and the children of sons of the sovereign.

“The grandchildren of the sons of any such Sovereign in the direct male line (save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of dukes,” the rules say. 

So Prince George, as eldest son of the elder son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and thus third in line to the throne, got the prince title. But the queen also bestowed it on Princess Charlotte, 4th in line, and baby Prince Louis, 5th in line.

If the queen decides the first Sussex baby will not be styled prince or princess, the baby, if a boy, would likely take one of Harry’s lesser titles, such as Earl of Dumbarton, that he received from the queen on the morning of his wedding along with royal Duke of Sussex. 

Arbiter says the baby’s grandfather, future King Charles III, might want to ensure that all his grandchildren have titles, since they are likely to carry out public duties when they are older and their granddad is on the throne. 

“This is a decision not to be taken lightly, which is one reason why there has been no decision announced as yet,” Arbiter says. “I think this is going to be decided by the queen, Prince Charles and Meghan and Harry together.” 

  Who comes after Harry and Meghan’s baby?   See more of the line of succession

The baby will have an unprecedented ancestry for the royal family.

The baby will be one-quarter African-American, thanks to Meghan, whose father is white and whose mother is African-American. There’s never been an acknowledged part-African baby born into the royal family – or even an American baby.

Meghan is believed to be the first royal bride with African-American ancestry to join the family, although some scholars insist that 18th-century King George III’s wife, Queen Charlotte, had African ancestry many generations back before she was born in 1744 in Germany. And the Windsors all descend from one of their sons.

Nevertheless, it would be a first in the modern era, and would likely boost the family’s popularity with its growing minority populations in the U.K. and in the Commonwealth, where Harry and Meghan will play an important role.

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex greet well wishers during their visit to Chichester, England, Oct. 3, 2018.

 (Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AP)

MORE: Pregnant celebrities 2019: Who’s due, baby bump pics and gender reveals

Will the baby be a British citizen, an American citizen or both?

The baby will likely be born in London at St. Mary’s Hospital so for sure he or she will be a citizen of the United Kingdom, especially as a member of the British royal family.

But Meghan, as an American awaiting U.K. citizenship, could also pass on her U.S. citizenship to her baby – unless she renounces her citizenship for tax purposes after she receives her U.K. citizenship and before the baby is born. 

If not, Meghan could ensure the baby has dual citizenship by applying for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad before the child’s 18th birthday. The State Department recommends parents apply for the CRBA as soon as possible after the child’s birth.

According to American rules, once the child reaches 18, he or she may choose either citizenship or keep both.  

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Will the baby have red hair like Prince Harry’s?

The gene for red hair in humans is recessive, meaning generally you can have red hair only by getting two red-hair genes, one each from your parents. A brown gene combined with a red gene usually produces brown hair, because brown is usually the dominant gene.  

British bookies seem to believe that if Harry, seen here with Princess Diana just before his third birthday in 1987, has a daughter, she may be named after her late grandmother. But her name is more likely to be passed down than the Spencer gene for red hair.

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Red hair runs in Harry’s family: The Earls of Spencer, the family of his mother, Princess Diana, had lots of “gingers,” as they call it in Britain. Diana’s father, brother and one of her sisters had or have hair like Harry’s. 

It’s possible that somewhere in Meghan’s genetic makeup there might be a gene for red hair from one of her ancestors, but the likelihood of it turning up in Meghan and then combining with Harry’s gene to produce another ginger prince is small.

John H. McDonald, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Delaware, says the basic genetics we learned in high school is either wrong or oversimplified. He says it is possible, for instance, for two brown-haired parents to produce a redhead child – such as himself – because inheritance involves multiple factors besides genes.

“Human traits are more complicated than the simple recessive model we learned,” McDonald says. “I would say it wouldn’t be a shocking surprise (if the royal baby had red hair). My guess is there’s a 5 to 10 percent chance but it makes a big difference if her European ancestors were from, say, Ireland (vs.) Greece.”      

What will the baby’s name be?

Again, let’s go to the bookies. BetVictor, a leading European online betting company, put the name Diana as the 6-to-1 favorite if it’s a girl, said spokesman Charlie McCann.

Diana, for Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, is also one of the middle names of Princess Charlotte, Harry’s niece. 

“We make Diana our 6/1 favorite with Charles and Elizabeth next best at 12/1,” McCann said. “We have seen a bit of interest in both Alexander and Alexandra since this morning, although it will not be until the New Year before the market (heats) up as speculation intensifies over the name and gender of the baby.”

More: Duchess Meghan, Prince Harry are expecting their first child in the spring

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19 Official Portraits of the British Royal Family

The Queen Mother turns 90, 1990

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The Queen Mother seated with her daughter Princess Margaret, grandson Prince Andrew, and granddaughter Princess Anne. The Queen Mother lived to be 100, the only royal family member to live that long.

Princess Anne marries Timothy Laurence, 1992

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Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter, Princess Anne, married Timothy Laurence (her second husband) in Scotland because the Church of Scotland allows remarriages for divorced people. Though Timothy has no official royal title, the Queen knighted him in 2011. Here 9 other things the Queen actually has the power to do.

Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles, 2005

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The official portrait of Prince Charles and his second bride Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall on their wedding day. On the left: Charles’ children, Prince Harry and Prince William, and Charles’ parents, Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. On the right: Camilla’s children, Laura and Tom Parker Bowles, and her father, Major Bruce Shand.

Prince William marries Catherine Middleton, 2011

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Prince William, the eldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, married Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge.

Original Source -> 19 Official Portraits of the British Royal Family

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Mike looking at Zara today 😍

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Zara & Mikey Tindall attending The Sovereign's Garden Party, at Buckingham Palace today 💕

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Born On This Day: May 15 1981: Cousins Nicholas Louis Charles Norton Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne, son of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, & Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall, MBE, eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II … 🌟👑🌟