British actress Sophie Winkleman joined — and left — palace life years before Meghan Markle did.
Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin Prince Michael, in 2009. The couple moved to LA the day after their ceremony, where Winkleman found success as a television actress.
She starred as Ashton Kutcher’s love interest, Zoey, in “Two and a Half Men” before moving back to the UK in 2013.
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The actress told Insider she doesn’t understand the comparisons made between herself and the Duchess of Sussex.
Winkleman says she ‘wouldn’t be able to cope with the level of intrusion’ that Markle faces
Winkleman is perhaps the only other person who can understand what it’s like to be a British royal living in…
