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\n By Molly Claire Goddard<\/span> \t\t\t\t\tSophie Winkleman<\/strong>, who’s also known as Lady Frederick Windsor, pulled back the curtain on what it’s really like being a member of the royal family. <\/p>\n Keep reading to see what she said\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Follow Wonderwall on celebrity.land for more top news<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tSophie Winkleman \u2014 who married Lord Frederick Windsor<\/strong>, son of Prince Michael of Kent<\/strong>, who is Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>‘s first cousin \u2014 told\u00a0The Times<\/a><\/em> how difficult life is for members of the royal family. “The more I get to know the royal family, the more I get that their lives are total hell and that level of unasked-for fame is a form of torture,” she said. <\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tSophie Winkleman emphasized that members of the royal family did not choose lives in the spotlight. “None of them went on [the British reality TV competition show]\u00a0Pop Idol<\/em>\u00a0or something to be famous. To have that sort of blinding spotlight in your face from when you’re born, not knowing quite whom you can trust, not knowing if someone’s going to betray you, people writing lies about you the whole time, is just brutal,” the actress said. “I feel for them all. I don’t think a life with that much scrutiny and pressure is remotely healthy.” <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSophie Winkleman married into the royal family in 2009. “I didn’t know anyone at my wedding. I had my best pals there, but basically it was full of faces I’d never seen before,” she said. The Two and a Half Men<\/em> star is often photographed attending official events with her husband, Lord Frederick Windsor, and senior members of The Firm. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tAmong all members of the royal family, Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 who left his role as a working member of The Firm in 2020 \u2014 has been the most vocal about the intense pressure he and his relatives face. “We all know what the British press can be like, and it was destroying my mental health,” the Duke of Sussex said during a 2021 appearance<\/a> on The Late Late Show With James Corden.<\/em> <\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wonderwall.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Molly Claire Goddard 1:08pm PST, Nov 13, 2025 _ Sophie Winkleman, who’s also known as Lady Frederick Windsor, pulled back the curtain on what it’s really like being a member of the royal family. Keep reading to see what she said\u2026 MORE:\u00a0Follow Wonderwall on celebrity.land for more top news _ Sophie Winkleman \u2014 who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2155009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sophie-Winkleman-Calls-Royal-Familys-Lives-Total-Hell-Gallery.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155010,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155008\/revisions\/2155010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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