What should have been a purely joyful experience of welcoming her first baby became a whole lot more challenging than anyone could have imagined when Duchess Sophie gave birth to Lady Louise in 2003. So much so, that the memory of the traumas she went through apparently never left her, according to a new biography of the Duchess of Edinburgh.
Author Sean Smith explores this frightening moment in Sophie: Saving the Royal Family, where he claimed that the Palace press secretary, Ailsa Anderson, dropped everything in the middle of a dinner party after hearing that the Duchess was being rushed to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey.
