Princess Anne is celebrating her 75th birthday on Friday, August 15, and life in the Royal Family looked much different when she came into the world in 1950. Queen Elizabeth—who married Prince Philip in 1947—was still a princess while her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, sat on the throne. Prince Charles was just shy of two years old when his little sister was born, and like the future King, Princess Anne was born in a way that would be deemed extremely controversial in 2025.
Over the years, multiple royal sources have stated that the late Queen experienced a pain-free birth method using drugs that put her into a "twilight sleep." Most recently, Milli Hill, author of The Positive Birth Book, told the Daily Mail that Princess Elizabeth joined women around the world in choosing to be sedated during her birth, a method viewed by some as progressive.
