Royal baby photos: Monarchs of the modern age ... when they were cute

History is boring and old and royal babies are new and exciting. Lets combine the two — royal babies through history. In the following list, you'll find photos and paintings of some memorable modern monarchs – predecessors of today's expected royal baby. 

3. Edward VIII

Queen Alexandra, Daily Telegraph/Wikipedia Commons
A young Prince Edward poses for a picture taken by Queen Alexandra sometime between 1900 and 1908. He would have been around the age of 10.

Born in 1894 during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, whose legacy includes tying together royal families in Europe through marriage, Edward VIII was more interested in love than the monarchy. He abdicated the throne 326 days after beginning his reign to marry a Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. He went to war, but was removed from combat due to suspicions he was a Nazi sympathizer and sent to the Bahamas to be governor. He retired in France. [Editor's note: The original version of this list story dropped the V in Edward VIII, and gave an incorrect number of days that Edward VIII reigned. It also said he was crowned, but he never had an official coronation ceremony.]

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