Who Are Lady Louise and Viscount James? Meet Queen Elizabeth II’s Youngest Grandchildren
usmagazine.comThe youngest of the family. Queen Elizabeth II was a doting grandmother to eight grandchildren, a circle that was rounded out in 2003 and 2007 with Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, respectively.The queen and Prince Philip’s youngest son, Prince Edward, shares the two children with wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who he married in 1999.Lady Louise , 18, and son Viscount James, 14, have noticeably different titles from their cousins.
Despite being the children of a prince — and the monarch’s grandchildren — Edward, 58, and Sophie, 57, opted not to give their children royal monikers like other children of a prince.“We try to bring them up with the understanding that they are very likely to have to work for a living,” the former publicist told the U.K.’s The Sunday Times in June 2020. “Hence we made the decision not to use HRH titles.
They have them and can decide to use them from 18, but it’s highly unlikely.”While Edward and Sophie’s two teenagers have led a relatively low-profile royal life growing up, they frequently accompany their parents to formal gatherings.
The brother-sister duo even joined their older cousins at a Saturday, September 17, vigil for the queen, who died one week earlier at the age of 96.Lady Louise and Viscount James marched behind Prince William and Prince Harry on Saturday as they entered Westminster Hall in London.
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