As the Duchess of Sussex returned to Netflix earlier this year, cooking and entertaining in her series, With Love, Meghan, another duchess was planning a low-key approach to a milestone in the less glossy surrounds of Surrey.
The Duchess of Edinburgh turned 60 on January 20, a birthday she spent “privately” at Bagshot Park, the home she shares with Prince Edward, her husband of more than 25 years, and their three dogs: A cocker spaniel called Mole, and two black labradors, Teal and Teasel.
Their children, Lady Louise Windsor, 21, and James, Earl of Wessex, 17, sent birthday wishes – she from St Andrews University, where she is in her third year studying English, and he from boarding school in Oxfordshire, where he is studying for A-levels next summer.
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