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Wales Online
Sophie Watson & Phil Norris

Meet Gio, one of the first babies born in the reign of King Charles III

Adorable pictures show one of the first babies born in King Charles III reign wearing a cute woolly crown. Giorgio Nikolas Walker was born last Thursday (8/9) at 4.44pm – 14 minutes after PM Liz Truss was informed of the Queen’s death.

The 9lb 4oz boy is one of the first babies to be officially born in the second Carolean era – the term used to describe the reign of King Charles. Proud parents Rebecca Allen, 29, and Adam Walker, 31, were in University Hospital Coventry when nurses told them about the Queen’s death.

She said: “It was a very weird. There had been thunderstorms all day. We were about to have a baby and it was such a horrible day.

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