Peep Show actress Sophie Winkleman joined the royal family in 2009.
Meghan Markle isn't the only actress in the royal family. Indeed, The Firm's prolonged family is so expansive that you can also not know that the mum of one of Prince George and Princess Charlotte's cousins is a TV star.
You may also realize Sophie Lara Winkleman from Peep Show and Two and a Half Men, as well as for her acquainted surname as her half-sister is Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman.
But she's additionally recognised as Lady Frederick Windsor, a title Sophie received when she married into the royal household at Hampton Court Palace in 2009. Her partner's father is Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the Queen.
Unlike Meghan, the actress did not have to stop her career and lift out reliable duties, and she nonetheless takes on ordinary roles, the Mirror reported.
Born in Primrose Hill, London, on August 5, 1980, Sophie is the daughter of kid's author Cindy Black and Barry Winkleman. She has made a number of amazing appearances on the silver display over the years, along with Peep Show, Sanditon and The Chronicles of Narnia.
She and Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, tied the knot on September 12 in the front of all the senior royals. Following their wedding, the couple moved to the US so that Sophie should similarly pursue her appearing career.
The couple have two children, who are close to Prince George and Princess Charlotte as they all go to the identical school.
While residing in California, their first daughter, Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina Windsor, was once born in 2013. Maud is the great-granddaughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent, as nicely as a great-great granddaughter of King George V.
As the 54th in line to the throne, Maud is named after a number of of her royal ancestors. Her first name is after Queen Maud of Norway who was a daughter of King Edward VII and Elizabeth is in honour of the Queen.
Her other middle name, Daphne, is after Sophie's beloved grandmother and Marina was the title of Lord Frederick's grandmother, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
The couple later moved again to the UK and welcomed their 2d daughter, Isabella Alexandra May Windsor, at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on January 16, 2016.
Sophie became the new royal consumer of Children's Surgery Foundation and later grew to be the first lady buyer of School-Home Support. As Lady Frederick Windsor, she has been pictured standing on the Buckingham Palace balcony at national events, such as Trooping the Colour.
She lately joined the rest of the family at the memorial carrier for The Duke of Edinburgh and at the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee.
The actress used to be additionally a visitor at the 2011 wedding of the Prince William and Kate Middleton, as properly as at the 2019 wedding of her sister-in-law Lady Gabriella Windsor. Speaking to Daily Mail's Sebastian Shakespeare, Sophie revealed that she sang at Lady Gabriella's wedding.
The proficient soprano said: "I sang one of my sister-in-law's favored songs, Will You Love Me Tomorrow. There have been a few tears but I'm not certain if it was because they had been moved or wanted me to stop!"
Sophie has additionally spoken in element about her daughter Maud's shut bond with Prince George. In an interview with Hello, she said: "We were invited to tea at Kensington Palace just before Princess Charlotte used to be born.
"Maud and George obtained on very well… He is a very clever, articulate little boy and was once talking lengthy before other babies his age."
Maud used to be also pictured subsequent to Princess Charlotte when they each served as bridesmaids at Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank on October 12, 2018.
The younger royals had been pictured making each other snicker - some thing that is unsurprising given how the trio attended the identical faculty together in London.
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