Lady Frederick Windsor brands royal family’s lives ‘total hell’: ‘A form of torture’
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Lady Frederick Windsor has expressed that life within the royal family can be “a total hell.”

In an interview with the Times, the British actress, born Sophie Winkleman, shared her insights on Wednesday. “The more I become familiar with the royal family, the clearer it becomes that their lives are extremely challenging, and the overwhelming fame they endure is akin to torture,” she stated.

“None of them sought out fame through avenues like [the British music competition television series] ‘Pop Idol,'” she further explained.

“Having that intense spotlight on you from birth, with constant uncertainty about who you can trust and the threat of betrayal, along with persistent falsehoods being written about you, is incredibly harsh.”

Lady Frederick Windsor, who tied the knot with Lord Frederick Windsor in 2009—son of Prince Michael of Kent and second cousin to King Charles III—expressed her empathy for the entire royal family, saying she “feels” for them all.

“I don’t think a life with that much scrutiny and pressure is remotely healthy, but they have no choice,” she shared.

In another part of the interview, Lady Frederick Windsor, 45, talked about her nuptials, saying that she “didn’t know anyone” there.

“I had my best pals there, but basically it was full of faces I’d never seen before,” the “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” actress confessed.

Page Six has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Lady Frederick Windsor, who shares daughters Maud, 12, and Isabella, 9, with her husband, 46, previously spoke out about how her wedding day was a “blur.”

“We had to move to Los Angeles the day after, and I had to start a brand-new job the day after that,” she recalled in a May interview with the Telegraph.

“So, we got married on Saturday and moved everything, our whole lives, out to America the day after. And I’d been so concentrating on the work that I hadn’t thought about the wedding,” the actress added.

Despite all of the mayhem, Lady Frederick Windsor said she has no regret about marrying into a famous brood.

“Family isn’t always brilliant, but this lot are very sweet,” she shared, adding, “I love all of them.”

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