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Aww!Lady Louise Windsor Was “Shocked” to Learn Her Grandmother is Queen Elizabeth
Well, this is the cutest thing we’ve heard all day!
Queen Elizabeth‘s 12-year-old granddaughter, Lady Louise Windsor — the eldest child of Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex — just recently realized her grandmother is the Queen of England!
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Elizabeth (center) with Louise (second from left) and other royal family members.
“For Louise, actually, it was much more of a shock to the system,” Sophie revealed to the BBC in a new interview. “She was coming home from school and saying, ‘Mummy, people keep on telling me that grandma is the queen.'”
“[Louise said she] ‘didn’t understand.’ I don’t think she had grasped that perhaps there was only one queen,” Sophie added.
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Louise with her parents, Sophie and Edward, in 2013.
“Certainly when [my children] were very young [my husband and I] tried to keep them out of it,” Sophie said of protecting Louise and her eight-year-old son, James, Viscount Severn, from the public eye. “Only because for their sakes, to grow up as normally as possible we felt was quite important.”
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“And they’re going to have to go out and get a job and earn a living later on in life and if they’ve had a normal a start in life they possibly can get, then hopefully that will stand them in good stead,” she added.