Inside life of most down-to-earth royal Lady Louise from NHS birth to working in canteen – and why she snubbed HRH title

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THIS play Prince Edward and his household are expected to beryllium shooting astatine Windsor.

The outing is simply a 60th day contiguous from the King to Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.

Lady Louise Windsor laughing astatine  a carriage driving event.

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Lady Louise takes portion successful the Royal Windsor Horse Show successful MayCredit: Getty

A squadron of soldiers successful  camouflage uniforms basal   successful  a tract  astatine  dusk.

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Louise, bottommost right, and different St Andrews students successful combats with the uni's Officer Training CorpCredit: instagram/standrewsuotc

Queen Elizabeth II and Lady Louise Windsor astatine  a equine  show.

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The young Royal with the Queen astatine the Royal Windsor Horse Show successful 2015Credit: Rex Features

But the idiosyncratic astir apt to bask the dainty is Sophie’s daughter, Lady Louise Windsor who is simply a ace changeable with a gun.

The Sun revealed yesterday that pupil Lady ­Louise, 21, hopes to articulation the subject erstwhile she leaves St Andrews University.

If Louise does go 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.

Down-to-earth Louise is already a keen subordinate of the University Officer Training Corps and is said to get connected good with the different cadets.

And the miss who refused to usage her title, HRH Princess Louise, erstwhile she turned 18 is truthful determined to beryllium mean that, according to insiders, she works successful the field canteen.

The young royal is surely not acrophobic to get her hands dirty.

While waiting for her A-level results successful 2022, she took a £6.83- an-hour occupation successful a section plot centre.

Louise did not baulk astatine grafting astatine the centre adjacent her home, watering and potting plants, carrying sacks and serving customers.

One visitant said: “The unit seemed to adore her. She is simply a truly humble and saccharine young woman, who is polite and attentive.

“She seemed to beryllium loving the job. You’d ne'er ideate the Queen’s granddaughter would instrumentality connected a relation moving down a till.”

Charles' niece wants to go archetypal pistillate royal since Queen to service successful the Armed Forces

Favourite grandchild

The crushed is that her mother, Sophie, who was a commoner earlier marrying Prince Edward, expected Louise and her member James, 17, to person jobs similar the remainder of us.

 The ­Duchess erstwhile said: “We effort to bring them up with the knowing they are precise apt to person to enactment for a living.

The unit seemed to adore her. She is simply a truly humble and saccharine young woman, who is polite and attentive

Visitor to plot centre wherever Louise worked

“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.”

As a result, Louise is the astir mean royal of them each — contempt being 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 satellite 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.

Age 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.

The countess mislaid 9 pints of humor during the operation, ­putting some parent and baby’s lives successful danger.

Louise, who weighed conscionable 4lb 9oz, was instantly transferred to a specializer babe portion 35 miles distant astatine St George’s Hospital successful Tooting, South London. It would beryllium a week earlier mum and babe were reunited.

Sophie would aboriginal admit the “very scary” commencement was truthful stressful that, for 10 years aft Louise was born, she recovered it hard to spell wrong neonatal wards connected royal visits.

 Louise was besides calved with ­esotropia, a information that causes 1 oregon some eyes to deviate, and arsenic a kid she had ­multiple surgeries to close her vision.

Lady Louise Windsor and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh astatine  a Christmas service.

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Louise with her parents astatine the Royals' Christmas Day work past yearCredit: Getty

Lady Louise and Felix da Silva-Clamp astatine  an after-party, holding awards.

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Boyfriend Felix da Silva-Clamp met Louise successful a pupil signifier playCredit: Facebook

When Edward and his woman named their girl Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince Philip was delighted that aft 55 years, a ­member of the Royal Family yet shared his adopted surname.

Because Lady Louise lived adjacent to the Queen and Philip astatine Windsor Castle, she became the grandchild they saw astir and doted on.

And erstwhile she took up equine riding and aboriginal carriage driving, Prince Philip was adjacent much enchanted.

Sophie said: “My father-in-law was truly encouraging of Lady Louise.

“So, erstwhile she not lone said, ‘Please tin I person a go’ but past showed a flair for it, helium was superb with her.

“They utilized to chat away. If she was competing successful the Great Park, helium would ever crook up to ticker her.”

When Philip died successful April 2021, helium bequeathed his greenish four-wheel c­arriage and 2 favourite fell ponies to Lady Louise, who inactive competes with them erstwhile she can.

Only past period she came archetypal astatine an indoor horse-driving trials. Louise besides competes astatine Windsor and Sandringham during her breaks from university.

The section Windsor carriage ­driving nine feared that erstwhile Prince Philip died they would beryllium banned for utilizing the Great Park.

Royal duties

But a subordinate of Great Park Equestrian Group says: “Because Lady Louise and her mum Sophie emotion carriage driving and Prince Edward is present successful complaint of the Great Park, we tin bask our sport.

“We’re delighted Louise has taken to carriage driving conscionable similar her ­grandad — and the results beryllium she is precise bully astatine it. But she has nary airs and graces astir her astatine all.”

 At the Sandringham Horse Driving Trials past July, Louise was spotted with her boyfriend, solicitor’s lad Felix da Silva-Clamp, connected the backmost of her carriage.

Though she prefers a mean beingness astatine the moment, she has the enactment of becoming a princess if she wants to. The King should ­consider her

Phil Dampier, Royal author

They met astatine St Andrews, conscionable similar the young Prince William and Princess Kate.

While William fell for Kate arsenic she sashayed down the catwalk astatine a assemblage manner show, Felix, 20, met Louise successful a pupil signifier play.

An insider says: “­Louise wanted to survey English astatine Cambridge, but wasn’t accepted, which annoyed her begetter who had gone determination arsenic a student. St Andrews was her ­second choice, but I’m definite she’s having a overmuch amended clip there.”

Lady Louise and Felix appeared successful Dragon Fever, staged astatine the Byre Theatre successful St Andrews.

 It tells the communicative of 9 strangers connected a ngo to slay a dragon, which turns into a execution enigma “full of riddles, twists, and emotion affairs”.

Pictures from a fundraiser for the assemblage play nine amusement Louise partying with friends, showing disconnected her moves connected the dancefloor and snapping selfies.

With Louise successful a V-neck achromatic dress, the brace wrapped their arms astir each different and, successful different image, she snuggles up to Felix, placing her manus connected his thorax and her caput connected his shoulder.

 An insider says: “Felix, who works astatine an crystal pick parlour successful St Andrews, has met Louise’s ­parents and they look to similar him.”

Students successful Scotland survey for 4 years, alternatively of three.

 When assemblage resumes next Monday, Louise volition inactive person astir 18 months near of her English Literature course.

Even if she does not articulation the Army aft her degree, experts judge that Lady Louise would beryllium a superb plus to the Royal Family.

Royal writer Phil Dampier says: “She doesn’t evidently privation to bash that astatine the moment, but with the slimmed down monarchy that we’ve present got by default, she could person an important relation successful the future.

We person a spread of 10 years earlier George, Charlotte and Louis volition beryllium aged capable to commencement ­performing immoderate royal duties.

“Lady Louise could person a royal vocation if she was asked.

“Though she prefers a mean beingness astatine the moment, she has the enactment of becoming a princess if she wants to. The King should ­consider her.”

Princess Elizabeth successful  Auxiliary Territorial Service azygous   during World War II.

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The Queen was the past pistillate Royal to service successful the military, pictured present successful 1945Credit: Topical Press Agency - Getty Images

The British royal household  connected  the Buckingham Palace balcony.

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Louise, right, joins elder Royals connected the Buckingham Palace balcony successful 2024Credit: Getty

Lady Louise Windsor and a person  astatine  a carriage driving competition.

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Louse and Felix astatine the Sandringham Horse Driving Trials past JulyCredit: Bav Media

Lady Louise Windsor riding an off-road e-bike.

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Down-to-earth Louse retired for a thrust connected an e-bike astatine the 2024 Royal Windsor Horse Show successful Home Park, Windsor CastleCredit: Getty

FROM SHY TO POISED

By Arthur Edwards, Royal photographer

LADY Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor was already 15 days aged erstwhile I archetypal got to instrumentality her photo.

Because of the play of her premature commencement it was November 23, 2003, earlier arrogant Prince Edward and his woman Sophie Wessex were capable to airs extracurricular Frimley Park Hospital with their first-born.

And they tin beryllium rightly arrogant of Lady Louise.

I person watched her turn from a shy young miss into a beauteous woman, who is assured among the crowds who crook retired astatine Sandringham each Christmas.

Louise has travel a agelong mode since I photographed the young royal erstwhile Queen Elizabeth visited her Windsor superior school.

On that occasion, small Louise hid herself astatine the backmost of the class.

I lone knew she was determination erstwhile the Queen spotted her and gave her granddaughter a discreet wave.

I’m definite Prince Philip and the precocious Queen would person been arrogant that Louise wants to service King and state successful the Army.

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