Sophie Winkleman’s husband may be the King’s second cousin, but the actress-turned-royal-relative keeps the spotlight at arm’s length. While Winkleman lives a fairly normal life, working as an actress, parenting two daughters, and living in London, she gets a taste of royalty through family events, such as Royal Ascot and Trooping the Colour. In an interview with The Times, Winkleman describes the senior royal’s lives as “total hell” and “just brutal.”
“The more I get to know the royal family, the more I get that their lives are total hell,” Lady Frederick Windsor–Sophie Winkleman's formal royal styling–said in the interview. “To have that sort of blinding spotlight in your face from when you’re born, not knowing quite whom you can trust, not knowing if someone’s going to betray you, people writing lies about you the whole time, is just brutal.”
