Hollywood actress said King would never stop her taking on a ‘racy’ role
You may recognise Sophie Winkleman from her many appearances in shows such as Two and a Half Men, Peep Show, Death in Paradise and This is Going to Hurt.
But did you know that she's also a member of the Royal Family who is often seen with the King and the Prince and Princess of Wales?
Sophie Lara Winkleman was born in Primrose Hill, London on August 5, 1980 to Cindy Black and Barry Winkleman.
While she is not the only actress to have married into the Royal Family, she is in a different position to Meghan Markle as she did not stop her career after her wedding.
Fans in the US will recognise Sophie from her role as Zoey in Two and a Half Men where she played Ashton Kutcher's love interest (2012 CBS Photo Archive.)Lady Frederick Windsor, as she is officially known, joined the late Queen on Buckingham Palace's balcony a number of times before and is regularly pictured at royal events.
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Sophie Winkleman made a name for herself in her roles as Big Suze in Peep Show, Zoey in Two and a Half Men and as the elder version of Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
The successful actress studied at Cambridge University and later met Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's son, Lord Frederick Windsor.
The pair married on September 12 at Hampton Court Palace in front of all the senior royals. While she officially became styled as Lady Frederick Windsor, she continues to use her maiden name in her acting career.
Sophie played Zoey in US sitcom 'Two and a Half Men' (2011 CBS Photo Archive)
Sophie married Lord Frederick Windsor at Hampton Court Palace in 2009 (Getty Images)Love the royals? Sign up for the Mirror's daily newsletter to get all the latest news on the Queen, Charles, Kate, Wills, Meghan, Harry and the rest of The Firm. Click here to sign up .
She has praised her experience of marrying into the Royal Family before. In an interview with The Times from 2020, she said: “I’ve been incredibly welcomed with open arms by all of them. I haven’t had a single negative experience.
"The Queen’s been wonderful, Prince Charles has been wonderful, Prince William’s been heaven.
"They’d never tell me off at all if I wanted to play some [racy] role. Everyone’s looked after me. Oh God, please don’t make me sound too gushing."
After their wedding, Sophie and Frederick moved to the US so that Sophie could further pursue her acting career. While living in California, their first daughter, Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina Windsor, was born in 2013.
As the 53rd in line to the throne, Maud is named after several 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 late Queen.
The couple later moved back to the UK and welcomed their second daughter, Isabella Alexandra May Windsor, at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on January 16, 2016.
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In 2017, Sophie was involved in a car crash in Cambridgeshire and spoke vividly about her experience which left her "a couple of millimetres away from paralysis.”
She revealed to HELLO Magazine : "It’s very strange, when something huge happens to your body, you don’t immediately feel the pain. I felt lots of warmth and a strange kind of serenity. I felt like my soul was rising up and seeing everything… Yes, I did expect to die. It was extraordinary."
Sophie has been pictured with the rest of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace many times (2011 Indigo)She then spoke about how the Royal Family cared for her, which included King Charles having his chef prepare the family two meals a day for several weeks and Prince William asking a colleague to ensure she was looked after.
Sophie said: "It was life saving having this massive thing twice daily I didn’t have to worry about.”
She also noted that Prince William asked a co-worker in the air ambulance to "take good care of her", and that Sophie, Countess of Wessex visited her in the hospital.
She revealed: "I heard from pretty much every member of Freddie’s family, I was spoiled to bits by them."
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