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Originally Posted by HarryT
In modern English, something like:
"This morning, my dear wife Charlotte had a healthy baby boy after an easy delivery"
might be better?
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Thanks to you all, and yes, Elizabeth often mentions that her husband is a Prussian Junker.
I'll use Harry's translation, with thanks, though I was expecting from the context something more sombre than that. Perhaps it's another example of the author's irony.