[post_page_title]Royal babies were snatched away as soon as they were born[/post_page_title]
Marie Antoinette’s experience was a little extreme, but even when the number of attendees was reduced to a more manageable 60 or 70 people, royal births still attracted a crowd. Everyone from government ministers and archbishops could be expected to attend, to ensure that no foul play was employed.
In other words, they weren’t spectators so much as witnesses – to the birth of a living baby of a specific gender and that the baby wasn’t swapped out. In fact, immediately after the birth – before the mother ever held her newborn – it’d be lifted high and its gender announced loudly, for the assembled crowd to confirm.
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