His next wife, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, was beheaded.
Here are some royals who gave birth when they were quite young.
Less than a year after their wedding, she gave birth to her first child, Prince William.
In abreak from tradition, Prince Charles was in the room during the birth.
“Of course, she indulged them… She wanted to be a full hands-on parent herself. "
Britain’s longest reigning monarch fell for her future husband, Prince Philip, when she was just 13.
They became friends and became romantically involved a few years later, marrying in 1947 when Elizabeth was 21.
The following year, the young bride gave birth to their first child, Prince Charles.
She went on to have three more children, two boys and a girl.
Motherhood was not the only responsibility the young royal faced.
When her father died in 1952, Elizabeth found herself ruling the country at the tender age of 25.
Like her great-great granddaughter Elizabeth, Victoria was also a very young mother.
She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, when theywere both 20 years old.
Victoria was already the queen at this point, having ascended to the throne three years earlier.
Victoria’s ascendance to the throneat such a young agelikely influenced her early marriage.
It was an uncle of Albert and Victoria, Leopold, who suggested that the cousins marry.
The nation’s last empress, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, was born in 1858.
Crown Prince Wilhelm and his father were both forced to sign documentsrelinquishing their claims to the crown.
Although she had four children, only her firstborn, Marie Therese,lived to adulthood.
Born Princess Ruffo di Calabria in Italy, she grew up in Rome.
While Paola was Italian, her grandmother, Laure Mosselman du Chenoy, was Belgian.
The young princess reconnected with her Belgian roots in 1959, when she married Prince Albert of Belgium.
She wasonly 21 years oldat the time.
Two years later, the royal had a daughter, Astrid.
The year after that she gave birth to another son, Laurent.
Due to his declining health, Albert IIabdicated the thronein 2013.
Because of her father’s position, Sirikit was educated around the world.
The royal couple went on to have four children together.
The oldest, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, was born the next year when Queen Sirikitwas only 18.
Princess Ubolratana married an American and gave up her royal title.
When she was 15 she married Francis, the heir to the French throne.
The young widow married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in 1565.
The marriage was an unhappy one, but brought her a son, James, in 1566.
Mary was only 23 when she gave birth to her only child.
Her husband was murdered in an explosion just a few months later.
Mary remarried after a few months, which upset the Scottish nobles who then quickly turned on her.
She kept Mary imprisoned for 19 years before having her executed in 1587.
The princess was born in 1887 in Scotland.
She was only 17 when she met the 19 year old king of Spain, Alfonso XIII.
King Alfonso XIII eventually won, and the two became engaged.
Victoria Eugenie and Alfonso had seven children together.
The oldest, Alfonso, was born in 1907, the year after the couple married.
Victoria Eugenie was only 19 years old.
Alfonso should have inherited the throne, but hegave up his claimto marry a commoner.
Five years later, at the age of 31, he died in a tragic car crash.
This caused complications, which led to his early death.
When her brother raised an army against her, Cleopatra turned to Rome for support.
Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile while attempting to flee the Roman troops.
Cleopatra then married his successor, her brother Ptolemy XIV.
While skeptics remain, Caesar himself acknowledged Cleopatra’s childas his own.
Although she had a royal title, she was only very distantly related to the Imperial family.
Her noble blood did, however, make her eligible to marry into it.
She was trained for six years to prepare for her future duties as empress.
The couple married in 1924, when the princess was 21 years old.
A year later, in 1926, Nagako became the empress.
She had a total of seven children, five boys and two girls.
Her first four children were girls, and therefore ineligible to inherit their throne.
She had seven more children, and many of her descendants would go on to shape European history.
As noted byRoyal Central, the royal is the daughter of Denmark’s King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid.
She gave birth to Princess Alexia just 10 months later, on July 10, 1965.
The couple welcomed a son, Prince Pablos, on May 20, 1967, when Anne-Marie was 20.
The monarchy was officially abolished in 1973, notesBritannica.
The family is still wealthy, though, and has lavish homes around the globe, perHello!
Sarah was 17, while her groom was 30 years old.
In addition to her royal duties and preparing for motherhood, she was a college student at the time.
She was named Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice at birth, although she was called Alix (viaBiography).
A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, the young royal married Grand Duke Nicholas Romanov on November 26, 1894.
PerHistory, her husband was crowned Tsar Nicholas the following year but was forced to abdicate in 1917.
The couple and their five children were executed the following year.
