--- description: They were hoping for a princess title: Prince Charles and Camilla Are 'Delighted' About the Birth of Princess image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [U.K.](/tag/u-k/) ## U.K. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Prince Charles and Camilla Are 'Delighted' About Birth of Princess by [Maria Mercedes Lara/People](/author/people/) ## Maria Mercedes Lara/People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 2, 2015 2:49 PM CUT by [Maria Mercedes Lara/People](/author/people/) ## Maria Mercedes Lara/People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 2, 2015 2:49 PM CUT Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are officially the grandparents to a [little royal girl](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20910362%5F20920139,00.html "undefined"). The royal couple announced that they are “absolutely delighted” about the birth of the princess, the second child of Charles’s son, [Prince William](http://www.people.com/people/prince%5Fwilliam "undefined"), and [Princess Kate](http://www.people.com/people/kate%5Fmiddleton "undefined"). Charles, 66, was [told the news](http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20910362%5F20920177,00.html "undefined") while at Highgrove, his country estate roughly 100 miles from London. Earlier in the week, the Prince of Wales had revealed that he and Camilla were hoping for a princess. While [greeting well-wishers](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20910362%5F20919622,00.html "undefined") at an event on Thursday in honor the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, Charles said that they were “hoping for a granddaughter.” It seems that the new baby’s arrival will please a lot of people in the royal family as [a friend revealed to PEOPLE](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20910362%5F20919836,00.html "undefined") earlier this week that Kate would “love a little girl.” _This_ [_article_ ](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20910362%5F20920187,00.html "undefined")_originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com "undefined") ### Oh Baby: 121 Years Of Infant Royals On Camera  This was the last time a Queen met her greatgrandchild. In 1894, Queen Victoria holds the newly christened Prince Edward, later Edward VIII. Popperfoto/Getty Images  This tot, pictured in 1896, didn't expect to be king but when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated, George VI took over. Popperfoto/Getty Images  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, born to the Scottish aristocracy in 1900, would become royal through marriage to the future George VI. Their eldest daughter is the current Queen. Popperfoto/Getty Images  In 1926, as a tiny baby, Princess Elizabeth already displays the solemn face that she has deployed so often in her public duties since becoming Queen. Bob Thomas–Popperfoto/Getty Images  The naughty sister: the baby Princess Margaret, flanked by Princess Elizabeth and their mother, led a colorful life. Prevented from marrying her first love, a divorced commoner, she later married, and divorced, fashionable photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. Popperfoto/Getty Images  Before Princes Charles was born in 1948, his grandfather King George VI did away with a long-held custom that demanded the Home Secretary be present at royal births. Here Charles is pictured with his mother, at that stage still Princess Elizabeth. AP  Princess Anne, second child of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, pictured at her 1950 christening, must have been born with horse sense. She won a gold and two silver medals at European equestrian competitions and rode for the U.K. in the 1976 Olympics. Fox Photos/Getty Images  She already had an heir. Here's Queen Elizabeth with the spare: a chubby, 6-month-old Prince Andrew, in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland in 1960. AP  This 1964 snap of Prince Edward in his cot, with brother Andrew and his mother, the Queen, already suggests an interest in what's going on behind the camera. He went on to found a TV production company in 1993. AP  The Queen admires her first grandchild, Peter Phillips, at Balmoral Castle in November 1977\. Peter's mother, Princess Anne, declined royal titles for both of her children. Anwar Hussein  Zara Tindall, née Phillips has become a top flight equestrian, like mom Princess Anne. Pictured here in 1981, mother and daughter were much photographed at the 2012 Olympics when Anne presented Zara with a silver medal. Lichfield–Getty Images  "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983. Tim Graham–Getty Images  Prince Harry, aged 9 months, watches a military parade with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, and brother William, in 1985. Roy Letkey–Reuters  The spitting image of her dad Prince Andrew, but for the red hair inherited from mother Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Beatrice looks pensive at her 1988 christening. Tim Graham–Getty Images  Another addition to the house of York: Princess Eugenie, with her mother Sarah, at her christening in 1990. Bill Allen–AP  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, Tilly the retriever, left, a Middleton family pet and Lupo, the couple's cocker spaniel, right, at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, in early August, 2013. Michael Middleton–AFP/Getty Images  Prince George and his sister Princess Charlotte at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, Britain, mid-May 2015. 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