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Lady Louise Windsor, 16, is the youngest granddaughter of the Queen and Prince Philip and is 13th in line to the British throne. She is also the elder child and only daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.

Sophie and Edward chose to give Lady Louise and her younger brother James, Viscount Severn lesser titles then they are entitled to.

As the children of the Queen’s child, they both had the right to be styled Prince or Princess.

But when Sophie and Edward married, the Queen, via a Buckingham Palace press release, announced their children would be styled as the children of an Earl.

They became the first male-line descendants of the Queen to reject princely titles.

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Titles within the Royal Family were limited by King George V, who issued a Letters Patent in 1917.

The automatic assignment of the title “Princess” and the use of the style “Royal Highness” was restricted to the following persons:

• the legitimate daughters of a British sovereign
• the legitimate male line granddaughters of a British sovereign
• the wife of a British prince

It read: “… the grandchildren of the sons of any such Sovereign in the direct male line (save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of Dukes of these Our Realms.”

However, in 2012, the Queen issued letters patent to change this law.

The new letters patent only benefits Princess Charlotte and not Lady Louise.

The letters patent enabled all children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales to enjoy the princely title and style of Royal Highness, as opposed to only the eldest son.

The reason only Charlotte benefits from the change is due to her birthday.

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She was born on June 2, 2015, after the Queen had issued the letters patent.

Her name will go down in history as the first royal daughter born after the British rules of succession were changed.

This means the male-preference primogeniture putting all brothers ahead of sisters in line for the crown was abolished.

So while Charlotte is fourth in line to the throne, ahead of her younger brother Prince Louis, Lady Louise falls behind her younger brother James as the change was not in place upon her birth.

Lady Louise missing out is unlikely to bother her parents Sophie and Edward.

While the Earl and Countess support and represent the monarchy as full-time working royals, Sophie maintains their two children have a somewhat normal life.

In a recent interview with The Times, Sophie told interviewer Christina Lamb: “What’s normal? They go to a regular school.

“They go to friends for sleepovers and parties. At weekends we do lots of dog walking and stay with friends.

“I guess not everyone’s grandparents live in a castle, but where you are going is not the important part, or who they are.

“When they are with the Queen, she is their grandmother.”

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