In March 2013, Prince William attended the St Patrick’s day parade with a heavily pregnant Catherine. A guardsman, Lee Wheeler, gauchely asked the then-Duchess of Cambridge if she knew whether they were having a boy or a girl😬🤦🏽♀️
Catherine, took the question in stride and replied that “while they don’t know the sex of the baby yet, She was hoping for a boy, while William is holding out for a girl.”😍
In Fact, William wanted a girl he would dote on. He finally got his wish on May 2 2015, when Catherine gave birth to their unique daughter, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana❤️
And he was not the only one extatic; the Queen was jubilant. In 2013, The Succession to the Crown Act was amended to end the system of male primogeniture, under which a younger son took precedence over an elder daughter in the line of succession.
Princess Charlotte is, therefore, the first ever Princess in British History to benefit from that law: She retained her place in the LOS in front of Prince Louis🤩
The Queen could not wait to meet William and Catherine’s daughter. Thus, Princess Charlotte was merely 3 days old, when on May 5th, Queen Elizabeth II arrived at Kensington Palace from Norfolk, to meet her 5th great-grandaughter and the 4th in line to the Throne at the time.
Charlotte is now 3rd in the LOS behind her older brother Prince George.❤️
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