Birth of Albert Edward VII/Wearing of Crinoline prior to his Birth
Prince Albert Edward VII (1841-1910) [Chapter 6, pp. 296] was born at Buckingham Palace on November 9 1841, he was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and named after Prince Albert. It was mentioned in Orlando that the Queen Victoria wore a Crinoline as a way to hide her pregancy. It is said that she wore this because she had to stop her duties as Queen in order to watch over her children, Edward is no exception. Edward would grow up with an education but he never could have met up with his parent's expections (Wikimedia) Nevertheless he would become king on August 1902.
Edward was mentioned in Orlando when Orlando went to Park Lane and saw carriages without horses and the sky having changed and saw the King himself. "It was no longer so thick, so watery, so prismatic now that King Edward—see, there he was, stepping out of his neat brougham to go and visit a certain lady opposite—had succeeded Queen Victoria" (296). (167 word count)
“Edward VII.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 Mar. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII
Woold, Virgina. Orlando, Mariner Books 1928.