London Trivia: A baby! The first for 500 years

On 15 November 1977, Princess Anne gave birth to Peter Mark Andrew Phillips at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. The child was the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years. Unlike other commoner’s births the royal gynaecologist, George Pinker, also attended the birth. Fortunately for the princess, the tradition requiring a government minister to witness royal births had ended. On 15 November 1712 the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun duelled in Hyde Park, Mohun’s second killed Hamilton and Mohun died later from his injuries In 1415 following the Battle of Agincourt the Duke of Orleans, prisoner in the Tower of London, sent his wife the first ever valentine card Blackfriars Bridge has several pulpits along its flank homage to Blackfriars Monastery which stood here until it was dissolved by Henry VIII Domestic servants with visible smallpox scars were preferred to those unmarked, proof that they would not bring smallpox into the household Theobalds Road was once a…

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