Letter from Queen Elizabeth II to her midwife reveals Charles’s ‘enormous appetite’ was leading him to become ‘fatter’ during trip to Scotland when he was a toddler

A candid letter from Queen Elizabeth to her midwife reveals how the young King Charles ‘grew fatter by his great appetite’ during a trip to Scotland.

The then Princess Elizabeth wrote to her midwife Helen Rowe from Balmoral Castle seven weeks after Anne’s birth in 1950.

She gave ‘Rowie’ an update on the health of both Anne and the then 21-month-old Prince Charles.

The late Queen told her that they “got along really well” and that she “already felt much stronger”.

However, she also revealed that Charles had a huge appetite and the toddler was even getting fatter.

A four-page letter from the late Queen to her midwife Helen Rowe, written from Balmoral Castle after the birth of Princess Anne in 1950

The then Princess signed the personal letter simply as Elizabeth. The private letter is now going under the hammer and is expected to sell for £3,200

Elizabeth added that the assertive young prince would look at objects he couldn’t reach and say to her, “Mama, lift!”

She also wrote about how the Queen Mother ‘spoiled’ her grandson while he was at Balmoral.

She wrote to ‘Rowie’: ‘We all get along very well here and I feel much stronger already.

‘It was lovely to be back on the hill the second day I was here, but on the third day the jeep that takes you all over the ground missed picking me up and I had to walk to the road, which resulted in me straining to keep my knee pressed against something, which was very effective in keeping me contained!

‘However, the air is so nice that I feel better every day and although I still take a nap in the afternoon, I don’t do that as often anymore.

‘Charles is gaining weight because he has a huge appetite and exercises a lot.

‘I find it extremely difficult to explain away when he looks at something he can’t reach and then meaningfully turns his back on me and says, ‘Mommy, lift!’

‘He enjoyed the train journey much more than Anne, who wasn’t too keen on the chatter at first, but she’s been getting here steadily and has got lovely rosy cheeks after getting out.

Queen Elizabeth with Prince Charles and a baby Princess Anne.

The late queen smiled with little Prince Charles in 1950, when Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s eldest son would have been about two years old

‘The sugar content in her food is gradually increasing, and she doesn’t seem nearly as hungry and often sleeps right through to the bottle.

‘The children’s grandmother openly spoils her eldest child and will do the same to Anne if she gets the chance!’

The four-page handwritten letter, dated October 4, 1950 and on Balmoral Castle stationery, is expected to sell for £3,200 at RR Auction in Boston, USA.

A spokesperson for RR Auction said: ‘This is a beautiful letter from the Princess, which concerns the health of her two young children: Charles, a month shy of his second birthday, and Anne, who was just a month and 19 days old at the time. this one a letter has been written.’

The sale of the letter, which has been consigned by a private collector, will take place on July 11.

This is not the first letter from the late Queen to go under the hammer.

In 2017, a letter to the same royal midwife after Prince Edward’s birth was auctioned.

In the handwritten message, written in 1964, the queen talked about her ‘amazing’ baby and how he ‘makes everyone happy’.

Edward, the Queen’s fourth and youngest child, was born at Buckingham Palace on March 10. Five months later, his proud mother said he was “as good as gold, trying to sit up, and weighing 15 pounds 12 ounces.”

The one-page handwritten letter, signed ‘Elizabeth R’ on Buckingham Palace stationery, is dated August 5, 1964 and was sold by RR Auction in Boston.