Lady Frederick Windsor calls royal family’s lives hell, torture

Sophie Winkleman, also known as Lady Frederick Windsor, doesn’t envy the royal family’s lifestyle.

Winkleman — who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael of Kent, first cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II — spoke about the more senior royals in a new interview with The Times UK.

“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,” Winkleman, 45, said.

The British actress continued, “None of them went on ‘Pop Idol’ or 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.”

“I feel for them all,” Winkleman admitted. “I don’t think a life with that much scrutiny and pressure is remotely healthy, but they have no choice.”

Similar to Meghan Markle, Winkleman was a working actress before she became a member of the royal family. She’s best known for her roles in the British sitcom “Peep Show” and “Two and a Half Men.”

Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor, 46, at Hampton Court Palace in London on September 12, 2009.

“I didn’t know anyone at my wedding,” she told The Times about the 400-person ceremony. “I had my best pals there, but basically it was full of faces I’d never seen before.”

After the wedding, the couple moved to Los Angeles for the next seven years, before returning to London and settling in Battersea after the birth of their older daughter, Maud, 12. They also share daughter Isabella, 9.

“It’s adorable, but it’s not near any Tube stations or many good schools, so I don’t know if we’d choose it again,” Winkleman said of the family’s current home.

Winkleman previously spoke to The Telegraph in May about the couple’s wedding and immediate move.

“It was such a blur because we had to move to Los Angeles the day after [the wedding], and I had to start a brand new job the day after that,” she recalled.

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

Winkleman added that she has a lot of love for her husband’s side of the family.

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