# 18 Kids and Counting becomes 19 Kids and Counting

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**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-kids-and-counting-becomes-19-kids-and-counting/508576 "2009-09-02T00:30:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-kids-and-counting-becomes-19-kids-and-counting/508576/61 "2009-09-04T17:18:41Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Queen Victoria was 40 when her youngest was born (and may have had more had Albert not died),
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> So I’ve wondered if perhaps things like diet, exercise (which even queens and the upper class would have gotten more exercise before modern technology), the fact that they had several children after the age of 35, etc..

Friendly nitpick.

Victoria was 38 when Beatrice was born:

> **[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Beatrice_of_the_United_Kingdom)**
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> Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later known as Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was also the last surviving child of Queen Victoria, dying nearly 66 years after the first to die, her elder sister Princess Alice.
> Beatrice's childhood was shaped by her mother's grief following the death of Prince Albert on 14 December 1861. As her elder sisters married and left t...

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