[post_page_title]Prince Philip was playing squash when Charles was born[/post_page_title]
Considering past royal births may as well have been held in stadiums, you’d think the beaming father-to-be would stand front and center. You’d be wrong. The first royal to actually attend a birth was reportedly Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert, in 1840.
Conversely, then-Princess Elizabeth’s husband Philip elected to play squash and then swim a few laps in the royal pool during his wife’s 30-hour labor with their first child. He made up for it by giving her champagne and a bouquet of her favorite flowers when she came to, though. Incidentally, that child, Charles, would be present at both of his own wife’s deliveries.
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