son of Prince and Princess Michael<\/a> of Kent and the King\u2019s second cousin, and while Freddie is so far down the line of succession you have to squint at number 54, but still, the couple are very much in the titled thick of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n(Lord Frederick was 17th in line when he was born.)<\/p>\n
This week, Sophie, who also happens to be a working actress, has given a new interview and admitted some wonderfully indiscreet details about her own royal wedding.<\/p>\n
The year was 2009, long before the Windsors would \u2018welcome\u2019 another TV gal into their midst, and with Prince William yet to pop the question to long-time squeeze Kate Middleton, what the UK needed was a royal wedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A guest list was assembled about the length of an abridged copy of Burke & Peerage, Hampton Court Palace was rightfully booked for the affair, and various HRHs were assembled (Princess Eugenie, the Duke and Duchess of Kent).<\/p>\n
However, now Sophie has admitted that there was a part of the day she found \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Telegraph this week, she said: \u201cIt was such a blur because we had to move to Los Angeles the day after and I had to start a brand new job the day after that\u2026I\u2019d been so concentrating on the work that I hadn\u2019t thought about the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Enter unto the breach her future mother-in-law and longtime Buckingham Palace balcony stalwart Princess Michael of Kent, who \u201csort of took it all over,\u201d said Sophie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually didn\u2019t mind at all. I thought, \u2018Great, do everything\u2019\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The end result, based on photos, is of a frou-frou-y affair that even diehard Cinderella-stans might have considered OTT; \u2018fairytale\u2019 was never going to be used as an adjective.<\/p>\n
In the cold light of 2025, Sophie does not sound exactly enamoured of all that bugle-beaded \u201ceverything\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hair was so disgusting, and Freddy still gets upset about it. It was just disgusting. And my mother-in-law chose my dress, which was very sweet and puffy, but I looked barking,\u201d she told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hair was so disgusting, and Freddy still gets upset about it. It was just disgusting. And my mother-in-law chose my dress, which was very sweet and puffy, but I looked barking,\u201d she said. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI look back on it and think I should have worn a simpler dress, and I should have got my hair blow-dried by someone who\u2019d done it before\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time that deliciously unfiltered Sophie has pulled back the curtain on her Windsor nuptials and what goes into planning a royal hitchin.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know anyone at my wedding. I had my best pals there, but basically it was full of faces I\u2019d never seen before,\u201d she told\u00a0Tatler\u00a0in December last year.<\/p>\n
During that same interview, she enthused about Princess Michael having \u201cbrilliantly\u201d \u2018taken full personal charge\u2019 of the 400-person event and said, \u201cI was so determined not to be a bridezilla, I didn\u2019t even work out my hairstyle and I cannot tell you how disgusting it looked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coming up the aisle, the first thing I said when I saw Freddie was, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry about the hair.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u2018Yes, what on earth have you done?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Sussexes have hardly been tight-lipped about what a rough trot Meghan had joining Crown Inc., Sophie has only ever raved about her extended in-laws.<\/p>\n
She told\u00a0Tatler\u00a0last year: \u201cBehind the camera, they\u2019re really fun, clever, kind people\u2026I love Catherine and William, but they\u2019re so busy and don\u2019t live in London, so I don\u2019t see them much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Charles \u201cis a very dear friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI spend a bit of time with him,\u201d she told the Times in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see how he works all day long, has a quick supper, and then disappears until about 4 am to write letters.<\/p>\n
Frederick Windsor and Sophie Winkleman arrive for the Lord Mayor\u2019s reception for the National Service of Thanksgiving at The Guildhall on June 03, 2022, in London, England. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cHe cares about so many things, and he comes up with brilliant solutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been incredibly welcomed with open arms by all of them. I haven\u2019t had a single negative experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019d never tell me off at all if I wanted to play some [racy] role. Everyone\u2019s looked after me.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she means that quite literally.<\/p>\n
Lady Sophie Windsor, Queen Camilla, King Charles III, and Lord Frederick Windsor watch the racing from the Royal Box as they attend day 5 of Royal Ascot 2023 at Ascot Racecourse on June 24, 2023, in Ascot, England. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The late Queen and Charles both offered practical support after Sophie broke her back in a 2017 car crash, as she thought she was \u201ca goner.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the accident, Charles (then the Prince of Wales) tasked his Clarence House cook to provide Freddie and Sophie\u2019s family with twice-a-day meals, \u201cfor weeks on end . . . It was life-saving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, during her recuperation, Queen Elizabeth suggested a solution to help her manage the pain of rehab.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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As Sophie told\u00a0Tatler: \u201cShe said, \u2018We can\u2019t have that. You have to go in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n
She told us that when horses had broken backs, they swam, and so she let me use her pool at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the reason I got better. It was so typically thoughtful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blimey. The Palace pool. \u201cDisgusting\u201d hair. Looking \u201cbarking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lord Frederick Windsor and Sophie Windsor, with Maud Windsor and Isabella Windsor, attend the \u2018Together At Christmas\u2019 Carol Service at Westminster Abbey on December 6, 2024, in London, England. Samir Hussein\/WireImage<\/p>\n
It would be remiss of me here not to play a quick game of Sussex Subbing.<\/p>\n
What if all of this had come out of Meghan\u2019s mouth instead<\/a>? Imagine a lit match going off in a fireworks factory built on top of an oil refinery. Kablooey.<\/p>\nThere is a lesson in all of this for any Cinderella-ish aspirants.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t overlook the very clear benefits to being wed to No. 54 rather than anyone in the single digits, of marrying far farther down the royal rung.<\/p>\n
Just think, all the invitations to Ascot and Westminster Abbey, none of the wing-clipping self-sacrifices of senior royaldom, and the occasional chance to do a lap in the palace pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDisgusting.\u201d That\u2019s not a word you hear too often when it comes to the royal family unless it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[186,61435,5105,7710,519,24553,448,672,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-142034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-brides","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royal-wedding","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-weddings","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114592474057149164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}