Royals wish Lady Louise a happy 21st birthday

The royal household has wished a blessed 21st day to Lady Louise Windsor, girl of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

A connection posted to the royal family’s authoritative X relationship said: “Happy 21st Birthday to Lady Louise!”

The station was accompanied by a photograph of Lady Louise astatine the Royal Windsor Horse Show this twelvemonth and a day barroom emoji.

Lady Louise – the youngest niece of the King and granddaughter to the precocious Queen – is studying English Literature astatine St Andrews University.

She is pursuing successful the footsteps of the Prince and Princess of Wales, who met astatine the assemblage successful Fife, Scotland successful 2001.

William and Kate besides reposted the royal family’s day message, adding: “Wishing Lady Louise a precise Happy 21st Birthday”.

Louise was calved prematurely successful November 2003, weighing conscionable 4lb 9oz.

Her mother, Sophie, was rushed to infirmary astatine 8 months pregnant, with terrible interior pains and doctors recovered she was dangerously sick from humor nonaccomplishment and performed an exigency Caesarean.

Newborn Louise was transferred to St George’s Hospital successful Tooting, London, for specializer care, portion the duchess remained astatine Frimley Park Hospital adjacent their Bagshot Park home. They were separated for six days.

The precocious Prince Philip taught Louise however to thrust a carriage and she is often seen astatine the yearly Royal Windsor Horse Show.

She occasionally accompanies her parents astatine events and attends royal celebrations specified arsenic Trooping the Colour.

She is 16th successful enactment for the throne and she and her younger member James, the Earl of Wessex, volition beryllium expected to enactment for a surviving and are improbable to usage HRH styles arsenic adults.