Queen broke royal baby tradition and inspired Diana and Kate to follow her

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The Queen reportedly broke Royal tradition when she decided to breastfeed her children influencing how future Royal mother's have brought up their kids.

Kate Middleton is said to look up to the monarch and has took big influence on how she fed her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, Mirror reports.

Speaking to The Guardian, royal historian Amy Licence said: "Royal breastfeeding mothers are a relatively new phenomenon.

"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."

This means that most royal babies were given over to a wet nurse to be fed, a woman who breastfeeds another's child.

Licence continued: "Royal women were often little more than symbolic figures, delivering child after child to secure a dynasty.

"This was particularly important in times of high infant and child mortality when the production of second, third and fourth sons was crucial.

"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."

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The Monarch's daughter-in-law Princess Diana also decided to breastfeed.

"Princess Diana insisted on nursing William and Harry herself," Licence said.

In other news, the Queen has a speech prepared to denounce the "madness of war" should another World War ever breaks out.

The address, which has thankfully never had to be delivered, was written in 1983 as part of a wargaming exercise that pitted Russia and the Warsaw Pact against the UK and Nato in case the Cold War ever heated up.

But as World War Three fears mount once again since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war last week it remains as chillingly relevant today as it did then.

With 1980s Britain feared to be on the brink of annihilation at the hands of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union, the Queen's secret speech urged her "brave country" to stand firm as it faced up to the "madness of war".

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