King Charles III<\/strong>\u2019s second cousin is shedding light on what royal life is like<\/a> behind the scenes.<\/p>\n Lady Frederick Windsor<\/strong> (also known as British actress Sophie Winkleman) \u2014 who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor<\/strong>, a great-grandchild of King George V<\/strong> and Queen Mary<\/strong> \u2014 revealed what she has learned since entering the royal family after her September 2009 wedding.<\/p>\n \u201cThe more I get to know the royal family, the more I get that their lives are total hell<\/a> and that level of unasked-for fame is a form of torture<\/a>,\u201d Lady Frederick, 45, said in an interview with London\u2019s The Times<\/em><\/a> published Wednesday, November 12 (via Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>). \u201cNone of them went on Pop Idol or something to be famous.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo have that sort of blinding spotlight in your face from when you\u2019re born, not knowing quite whom you can trust, not knowing if someone\u2019s going to betray you<\/a>, people writing lies about you the whole time, is just brutal,\u201d she continued. \u201cI feel for them all.\u201d<\/p>\n After becoming engaged to Lord Frederick on Valentine\u2019s Day in 2009, Lady Frederick married into the royal family on September 12 of that year.<\/p>\n She has had a career performing in film, television and theater. The actress has been seen in guest roles on Hot in Cleveland<\/em> and Two and a Half Men<\/em>, and she recently appeared as The Countess in the 2023 film Wonka<\/em>, starring Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Her husband, who is 54th in line to the British throne, is the son of Prince Michael of Kent<\/strong> and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n While she and her husband \u2014 who share two daughters \u2014 rarely make headlines, the lives of the royal family are often written about in the press<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prince Harry<\/strong> told Newsweek<\/em><\/a> in 2017 that he felt like he was \u201cliving in a goldfish bowl\u201d and in his memoir, Spare<\/em>, he wrote that \u201croyal fame was fancy captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n This story King Charles\u2019 Second Cousin Says Royal Family\u2019s \u2018Unasked-For Fame\u2019 Is Like Living in \u2018Total Hell\u2019<\/a> first appeared on National Examiner<\/i><\/a>. 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