Famous TV star joins royals for Queen’s coffin vigil as their ‘special connection’ is revealed

PEEP Show star Big Suze joined senior royals for vigil at Queen’s coffin at Westminster Hall.

Actress Sophie Winkleman has also appeared in Two and a Half Men, Death in Paradise and Trust and Sanditon.



Famous TV star joins royals for Queen’s coffin vigil as their ‘special connection’ is revealed
Sophie Winkleman attended a service on Friday evening

Famous TV star joins royals for Queen’s coffin vigil as their ‘special connection’ is revealed
She is of course not the only actress to have married into the Royal Family

Lady Frederick Windsor was among the special royal guests at the service in London tonight.

The star is married to Frederick whose father is the Queen‘s cousin Prince Michael of Kent.

Sophie, an actress who also more recently appeared in This Is Going To Hurt, married Lord Freddie, a financial analyst in 2009.

They have two children – eight-year-old Maud and six-year-old Isabella.



Famous TV star joins royals for Queen’s coffin vigil as their ‘special connection’ is revealed

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She is the half-sister of Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman.

She also shares a special connection with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s daughter Lilibet – as she too was born in the US.

On Monday, Westminster Abbey is expected to be filled with over 2,000 guests for the Queen’s funeral.

The cortege will then leave London for Windsor Castle and a committal service will take place at St George’s Chapel at 4pm.

Some 800 people, including members of the Queen’s household and Windsor estate staff, will attend the committal service.

The Queen will later be buried with the Duke of Edinburgh in King George VI’s chapel in Windsor Castle in a private service at 7.30pm the same day.

The burial service conducted by the Dean of Windsor and attended by the king and royals will remain entirely private, as a “deeply personal family occasion”.



Famous TV star joins royals for Queen’s coffin vigil as their ‘special connection’ is revealed
Sophie was among those at the serving tonight