his favorite granddaughter Lady Louise Windsor with a rare disease

A personal commitment linked to the experience of his daughter. An active member of the British royal family since her marriage to Prince Edward, Sophie Rhys-Jones multiplies her personal commitments as Countess of Wessex. “Favorite Child” of Elizabeth II, she was able to establish herself as a woman very present for the monarchy, but also as a devoted mother to her two children, Louise and James. Less famous than Princes William and Harry, the Queen’s two youngest grandchildren were raised far from the hustle and bustle of London, appearing since childhood only at major royal events. The opportunity to notice a detail on Lady Louise Windsor’s face that has changed over the years: her eyes. This is in fact affected by a rare condition called esotropiaa form of strabismus. This is a misalignment of the eyes which can cause slight loss of vision.

A disease for which Lady Louise, who was the favorite granddaughter of Elizabeth II, had recourse to operations of corrective surgery which, today, allow him to see correctly. “She’s fine now, his eyesight is perfect“said Sophie de Wessex in an interview relayed by The Express, which is preparing to make a very symbolic trip on the occasion of World Sight Day, on October 13th. As Global Ambassador for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), she will travel to Botswana and Malawi to celebrate the remarkable progress that has been made in this area and to meet people who have, like his daughter, Louise, had surgery to fix their eyesight.

Where does Lady Louise’s illness come from?

While Lady Louise’s illness has never been taboo within the royal family, Sophie de Wessex has never refrained from talking about it openly in the press, although she is very discreet about her personal life. . Thus, several years ago, she explained that if her eldest daughter was born with a strabismus, it is in particular because she was born prematurely. “Premature babies can often squint because the eyes are the last thing to be finalized”she had thus explained, specifying to have been the victim of a placental abruption which had caused in her and her baby a significant loss of blood. “Deep” when she was little, Lady Louise’s strabismus took a long time to be corrected, partly because, according to her mother, you have to make sure “that one eye does not become more dominant than the other”. A problem now over for the 17-year-old girl.