On November 14, 1948, the Prince of Wales was born in Buckingham, sometime in the evening. He was the first child to queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Princess Elizabeth was just 22 & in labour for 30 hours during which time his father gallantly played squash with his private secretary in Buckingham’s indoor courts, until the baby’s head was crowned and then rushed to the spot. That was probably a good use of nervous energy as back then men were not allowed in the natarium. When the princess woke up from her anaesthetic, gave Philip…