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If you think royal baby fever is a new thing, think again. Back on April 21
st 1926, when the Queen was born, there was plenty of excitement over the arrival of a new princess who – at the time – was several steps removed from the Crown and never expected to rule. No matter, as the papers of the time reported, this royal birth was a major event and those things we think peculiar to our own time – crowds and speculation and celebrations – were present on the day the Queen was born, too.
The little princess arrived in the early hours of April 21