Royalty On June 19 of this year, the count and the countess of Wessex, Edward and Sophie, twenty years married. That will modest to be celebrated. Edward and Sophie live with their children on the grounds of Bagshot Park, south of Windsor. Nevertheless, they play an important role in the British monarchy. The couple has scandals, business and family problems are known. Once they were labeled as failures, but now the ‘the favorietjes’ of the Queen. Writes that the Flemish weekly magazine Primo.
Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones, who are both 54 years old, life pretty under the radar. Nevertheless, they work very hard in behalf of the queen. They have last years together more than 700 appearances in the name of the monarchy, of which 273 are in foreign countries. It is the favorite of the emissaries of Queen Elizabeth, but it was ever different. Their path is not over roses gone.
Never enough
Edward has never been able to meet the stringent demands placed on him were made as a member of the royal family. A young prince is only bravery expected, but Edward was a scared child. On his first day of school was the nanny Mabel Anderson him to the palace. Edward clung anxiously to his bed fixed, she told once in an interview. His mother had to come and help.
After the elementary school was only worse. When had the shy and sensitive Edward to the strict jongenskostschool Gordonstoun. “I do not agree that your school days the best time of your life,” he said years later in a tv interview. In an attempt to meet the expectations of his father and the people, he reported to the heavy marines training. It was a failure. Edward didn’t feel at home among the ijzervreters. In order to keep up, behaved arrogantly. This prompted so much bad blood with his ‘comrades’ that they to him one day from top to bottom with mud insmeerden. That was for Edward the last straw; he left in 1987 the corps, to the great anger of his father. The tabloids called him a wimp. From that moment began the rumors that the prince is gay.
Edward made it only worse for themselves. He organised for the British television a sort of royal Game Without Limits and took sister Anne, brother Andrew and sister-in-law Sarah about to do wild chases, sponsgooien and other entertainment. “It’s a Royal Knockout’, was called the program, and that it was also for Edward. He placed himself completely outside the royal family by stierlijk to ridicule. Edward called later “the worst day of my life”.
are Also studying in Cambridge was not a success. He performed poorly and his fellow students were convinced that he only because of his status was admitted. In those years he must have taken the decision the rudder radically to throw. If he could not meet the image people have of a prince, then he should do what he liked. And that was to work in the theatre. He got a job at the company of musicalmagnaat Andrew Lloyd Webber and set his sights on a career as a television producer. His first production company went over the head with a debt of 600,000 pounds. Also with his second productiebedrijfje, Ardent Productions, he made no profit. The documentaries he makes, went only about his own family. The money was after him, helped by mommy.
Enthusiastic parents-in-law
