Lady Louise Windsor: How royal family's 'secret weapon' - 21 today - could follow in Kate's footsteps

Lady Louise Windsor, girl of Edward and Sophie, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh looked peculiarly cosy with fellow Felix da Silva-Clamp astatine St Andrews University successful Scotland

Lady Louise Windsor could travel successful the footsteps of Prince William and Princess Kate - if her romance with fellow Felix da Silva-Clamp goes each the distance.

The young royal, who turns 21 today, met Felix astatine St Andrews University successful Scotland - wherever her relative William met Kate successful 2001. They were surviving astatine the St Salvator's Hall connected field and soon developed a romance.

Photographs amusement Lady Louise, girl of Edward and Sophie, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, partying with Felix astatine a fundraiser for the university's play nine earlier this year. It is believed they person been dating for immoderate clip and Felix gets connected with Edward and Sophie.

William and Kate joined successful April 2011, 10 years aft gathering astatine the university. Should Lady Louise and Felix's narration proceed and goes the distance, they excessively would go royals tying the knot aft - not lone gathering during higher acquisition - but catching the oculus astatine St Andrews University itself. There is nary suggestion, though, the mates are engaged astatine this aboriginal stage.

The pictures, taken earlier this year, seizure Louise showing disconnected her moves connected the creation level and snapping selfies with Felix. She looks peculiarly cosy with Felix, arsenic the images amusement the duo with arms wrapped astir each other, mildly placing their heads together. Another pictures shows Lady Louise snuggling up to Felix, placing her manus connected his thorax and her caput connected his shoulder.

Felix, the lad of a solicitor, travelled to the Sandringham property successful Norfolk to spot Louise astatine her driving contention successful June, wherever she won an awesome metallic medal. The pupil was calved successful London but went to Melbourne Grammar School and his mother, who works for the World Health Organisation's intelligence wellness spread enactment programme, presently lives Down Under. It has been reported Lady Louise is keen to pitchy disconnected to Australia for her last twelvemonth of uni - with Macquarie University astatine the apical of her list.

Lady Louise is thought to person been highly adjacent with her precocious grandmother, having paid astir fortnightly visits to Elizabeth and Phillip. Ingrid Seward, royal commentator, explained Louise and her brother, James, Earl of Wessex, "were the grandchildren that they saw the most."

In comparison, "while the older ones were seen little frequently, this small miss was determination each weekend." It was adjacent reported that Louise had nary thought her grandma was the Queen until aboriginal successful life, her parents wanting to sphere a "normal childhood" for her.