A Prince Losing His Virginity? Or How I'll Make a Man Out of You

This came up in a private conversation with @VVD0D95 and I was wondering if anyone can help.

Louis XIV and Charles II both lost their virginity to ladies-in-waiting to their mothers or at least significantly older court ladies who were tasked with this job (Louis to 'One Eyed Kate' Catherine Bellier, Baronesse de Beauvais; and Charles to Christabella Wyndham, his former wetnurse).

However, I can't seem to find out if this was a common practice (or a practice at all) or just a once-off. Antonia Fraser's bio of Louis XIV records that it would not be to Marie Mancini - his first love - that Louis XIV would've lost his virginity. Such things were simply not the way it was done. But do we know of any other occurences - i.e. whether this was a "tradition" or a "common practice" versus Charles and Louis were simply outliers? I suspect Diane de Poitiers may have been the lady to instruct Henri II, and his older brother likewise had an older mistress when he died (maybe even the one who made a man out of him). But, then, there are other instances where it seems very unlikely that a prince had initiation of any sort into the arts of love (Louis XVI, Prince Arthur (older brother of Henry VIII)) or where the couple got married at such a young age (Louis, duc de Bourgogne and Adelaide de Savoie, parents of Louis XV; Henri II and Caterina de Medici; François II and Mary, Queen of Scots) that it likewise leads to questions.

Sorry if the topic seems weird or crass
 
I think it's a sort of phenomen. I remember that it happened to some austrian prince, but I can't remember who.

Okay, so we have French king, a British prince of Wales and presumably an Austrian archduke. Do you happen to remember in which century it was - i.e. also 17th or later? ISTR reading somewhere that before the '45 Bonnie Prince Charlie was a virgin
 
Found him! It was Emperor Franz Josef! His parents arranged for him to meet a "healthy bohemian peasant girl to practice on". Eww.

George I of England's parent also made sure their son got a mistress when he turned 16, evidently she were 5 years older. Eww again.
 
Found him! It was Emperor Franz Josef! His parents arranged for him to meet a "healthy bohemian peasant girl to practice on". Eww.

George I of England's parent also made sure their son got a mistress when he turned 16, evidently she were 5 years older. Eww again.

Eww that she was older? Because Christabella was in her late 30s and Charles II only 15, while One Eyed Kate was born in 1614 to Louis XIV's 1638.
Or eww at the seeming disregard for the girl in question?
 
Found him! It was Emperor Franz Josef! His parents arranged for him to meet a "healthy bohemian peasant girl to practice on". Eww.

George I of England's parent also made sure their son got a mistress when he turned 16, evidently she were 5 years older. Eww again.
I find this highly repulsive. Even though back then it was more or less accepted.
 
You mean the "teenage boys having sex with grown women" part, the part about simply "using" women, or both?

Having to be the victim of (modern-day) statutory rape because your mum (or possibly your dad, but those examples seem to really be "mum is the political force behind it") said so is kind of trippy and disturbing whichever way you look at it.
 
The Future King George V lost his virginity at 17 to an "actress". The whole thing was set up by a group of officers in his military unit. His mother was not amused.
 
In the good old days of ancient Egypt on his 12th birthday the young prince got married and got a harem. What was really gross is he married his half-sister.
 
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Having to be the victim of (modern-day) statutory rape because your mum (or possibly your dad, but those examples seem to really be "mum is the political force behind it") said so is kind of trippy and disturbing whichever way you look at it.
Technically with the ages of consent of the UK and Austria being 16 and 14 respectively, it isn't even that. Which is weird. In other news, Turkey and the Vatican are the only states in Europe to have the age of consent be 18.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe
 
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