Inside life of down-to-earth royal Lady Louise and why she snubbed HRH title

Lady Louise Windsor attends University of St Andrews, wherever Prince William and Princess Kate met, and utilized to transportation retired a £6.83-an-hour occupation astatine a plot centre successful Surrey

Prince Edward and his household are expected to beryllium shooting astatine Windsor this weekend.

It's a 60th day contiguous from King Charles to Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, but her girl whitethorn good beryllium the idiosyncratic who enjoys the experience the most.

After all, it is said Lady Louise Windsor, aged 21, is simply a ace changeable with a gun. The young royal hopes to articulation the subject erstwhile she leaves University of St Andrews, the oldest of the 4 past universities successful Scotland. If she becomes an Army officer, she volition beryllium the archetypal pistillate royal to service successful the Armed Forces since the precocious Queen, who was a ­Junior Commander with the Auxiliary Territorial Service successful 1945.

But Lady Louise is determined to support her feet connected the ground, it is said. According to insiders, she works astatine the field canteen of assemblage wherever Prince William and Princess Kate met successful 2001.

In fact, Lady Louise is truthful down-to-earth that she refused to usage her title, HRH Princess Louise, erstwhile she turned 18. She past took a £6.83-an-hour occupation astatine a plot centre successful Surrey earlier she near for university.

When she turned 21 past year, Lady Louise was snapped dancing with fellow Felix da Silva-Clamp, whom it is believed she has been dating for immoderate time. It is understood helium works part-time astatine an crystal pick parlour successful St Andrews portion undertaking his studies.

Speaking previously, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, said she felt some Lady Louise and lad James, Earl of Wessex, would "highly unlikely" follow their HRH titles erstwhile they reached 18. James turns 18 aboriginal this twelvemonth but Sophie's hunch astir her girl came true.

"We effort to bring them up with the knowing they are precise apt to person to enactment for a living. Hence we made the determination not to usage the HRH titles. They person them and tin determine to usage them from 18, but I deliberation it’s highly unlikely," Sophie had said.

It's said Lady Louise was the favourite grandchild of Prince Philip and the Queen. In fact, arsenic a small miss she erstwhile returned location from St George’s School successful Windsor and told Sophie: “People support telling maine that Granny is the Queen.”

But the beingness of Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor has been mean ever since the time she was calved — the archetypal royal ever to travel into the world successful an NHS hospital.

Prince Edward was distant connected a royal circuit of Mauritius erstwhile Sophie went into labour 4 weeks early, successful November 2003. Aged 38, she was owed to person her archetypal kid astatine the backstage ­Portland Hospital successful London. But Sophie, who had been airlifted to ­hospital with an ectopic pregnancy 2 years earlier, collapsed with terrible ­stomach pains astatine Bagshot Park, the couple’s £30million location successful Surrey.

She was taken by ­ambulance to Frimley Park Hospital, ­Camberley, nether equipped guard, wherever her girl was ­delivered successful a three-hour exigency Caesarean section.