‘She is tough. She has got that Queen Mother feel in her, so that when things need doing, she is there to do them.’
turns 40 today, and more than a decade on from officially marrying into the family she has developed a role as a key member of the Windsors.
And with a keep calm and carry on approach, the duchess has been heralded as channelling the same characteristics of charm, politeness and toughness as the Queen Mother, who was once described as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine’. Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who was private secretary to the Cambridges and the Duke of Sussex, and used to work for the Queen Mother, told The Times: ‘She takes time to talk to people.
The Queen, who has been on doctor’s orders to rest, is just five years away from her 100th birthday and a month from reaching her Platinum Jubilee.
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