Inside Queen's 'eyebrow raising' parenting methods - including only seeing kids for 30 minutes a day
24.01.2022 - 16:48
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Motherhood is a personal journey, and there are many ways to do it and no choice is better or worse than another. Well, of course there are some exceptions to this rule but mostly everybody is just doing their best! That includes the Queen, who did parenting her own way while raising her four children - Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Here are some of her more unique parenting tactics...Trailblazing royal breastfeeding Traditionally, 'wet nurses' would take care of breastfeeding royal children.
Royal Historian Amy Licence told the Guardian that the Queen started the "relatively new phenomenon" after being breastfed herself, and Princess Diana and the Duchess of Cambridge followed in her footsteps. "Historically, most royal mothers did not always believe that breast was best. In fact, in some cases, it was considered at best an inconvenience, at worst, downright harmful," she explained.
She continued, "Breastfeeding offers a degree of contraceptive protection, so with their babies being fed by others, Queens were free to resume their duties and begin the process of conceiving the next heir. "It was also believed that breast milk would be curdled if marital relations were resumed before weaning. Often, the royal household would contain a team of lactating women, to ensure the new arrival could be fed on demand." Short and sweet time together Balancing royal duties with having a young family meant that the Queen was very busy indeed.
Royal biographer Tim Heald revealed in a 'Being The Queen' documentary, that she would spend around half an hour with her children each day. “It wasn’t that anybody was being deliberately unkind or cold… it was just the way you did things," he explained. Sign up for the BEST celebrity house
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