Queen's grandchild Lady Louise Windsor has a 'space' to work for Royal Family

19 November 2023 , 15:00

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Lady Louise Windsor at the Coronation of King Charles III (Image: WireImage)

The Queen's so-called favourite grandchild Lady Louise Windsor has a "space" to work for the Royal Family, a royal commentator has claimed.

The eldest child of Prince Edward and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh is not currently a working member of the Royal Family. She is a student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, reading English Literature. And unlike her older cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, the 20-year-old is not a royal princess.

A royal insider told The Sun in 2019 that Lady Louise was considered the Queen's favourite grandchild. They said: "The Queen loves the fact that Louise and James relish their time at Balmoral, and she has become particularly close to Louise, who seems to have become her favourite grandchild, closely followed by James."

James, Viscount Severn, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor and Sophie, Countess of Wessex (Getty Images)

Despite being the daughter of a Prince, Sophie and Edward decided against royal titles for their children in the hope they would lead a normal life. But now that Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Prince Andrew are no longer working royals, a royal commentator has claimed there could be a "space" for Lady Louise to take up more duties. Richard Fitzwilliams exclusively told GB News that there are a large number of organisations and institutions which previously had a royal patron, so that "does leave a space for Lady Louise Windsor, possibly."

He continued: "What has been obvious and Princess Anne pointed it out a while ago, is that when King Charles came to the throne, there was all this talk about a slimmed-down monarchy. Firstly, the monarchy had already been slipped down with the Sussexes and Andrew no longer performing royal duties.

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"Secondly, there are only four working royals under the age of 70. So with some of those, Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent and so forth, there is a time limit to what these individuals can achieve. When it comes to Princess Anne, she's done a tremendous amount and she undoubtedly will for the foreseeable.

"But the facts are simply that the Duke of Edinburgh had 992 patronages, the late Queen Elizabeth II had 600, and Charles had over 800 as the Prince of Wales. There isn't the possibility of taking all those up with the current set of working royals. Because especially since just recently Prince William has given an interview, where he's talked about doing more but in a different way. And that doesn't mean taking numerically more. What it means is doing more for his patronages with homelessness, the Earthshot Prize for the environment, and mental health that he's currently doing."

Rachel Hagan