Peep show star Big Suze shocks fans as the actress sits amongst senior Royals at the Queens Vigil 

Peep show’s Big Suze shocked fans on Friday when eagle-eyed viewers spotted her sitting beside senior members of the Royal Family during a vigil at Queen’s coffin.  

Sophie Winkleman was sighted during live coverage of the ceremony honouring Queen Elizabeth II, as King Charles III and his siblings stood around their late mother’s coffin as she lies in state. 

Viewers flocked to Twitter to express their shock after seeing her at Westminster Hall, with many having forgotten about her Royal connection. 

One fan penned: ‘I watched a bit if the vigil and thought I was having a mad moment seeing Big Suze with the family. Turns out she married Prince Michael’s son.’

Another added: ‘I am genuinely finding this all moving, but when watching some of the vigil, I couldn’t help but think… is that Big Suze from Peep Show??? And I believe it is!’ 

A third surprised viewer noted: ‘Trying to come to terms with Big Suze being a Royal. Mental.’ 

On screen: Viewers flocked to Twitter to express their shock after seeing Sophie, with many having forgotten about her Royal connection (pictured as Big Suze on The Peep Show)

Sophie who married into the Royal Family is the wife of Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and 52nd in line to the throne. 

Since the couple tied the knot in 2009, mother-of-two Sophie says everyone has ‘looked after’ her, in particular the Queen and Prince Charles, who have been ‘wonderful’, and Prince William, whom she described as ‘heaven’.

Speaking to The Times, the London-born star said: ‘I’ve been incredibly welcomed with open arms by all of them… They’d never tell me off at all if I wanted to play some [racy] role.’ 

Shock: One fan penned: ‘I watched a bit if the vigil and thought I was having a mad moment seeing Big Suze with the family. Turns out she married Prince Michael’s son’

She added that she hasn’t watched The Crown, the latest series of which has come under fire from friends of Prince Charles who accused Netflix producers of ‘trolling’ the Royal Family ‘on a Hollywood budget’ due to the drama’s largely negative portrayal of his marriage to Princess Diana.

Sophie is half-sister of TV presenter Claudia Winkleman, with whom she shares father Barry Winkleman, and was educated at the private City of London School for Girls before completing an English degree at the University of Cambridge.

She explained she and the Strictly presenter had ‘very separate lives’ as children because Claudia, who is nine years her senior, lived with her mother. 

Connection: Sophie who married into the Royal Family is the wife of Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and 52nd in line to the throne (pictured in 2019)

Sophie, who now lives in Chelsea, married Lord Freddie in September 2009 at Hampton Court Palace, after meeting him on a night out in Soho. 

The couple, who moved to LA for a number of years after their wedding for her work, welcomed their first child, daughter Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina, in August 2013, and daughter, Isabella Alexandra May, was born in January 2016.

Maud and Isabella were among five bridesmaids for her sister-in-law Lady Gabriella Windsor and Thomas Kingston when they wed in May 2019 – having already been in the bridal party for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding in October. 

Since the couple tied the knot 12 years ago, mother-of-two Sophie says everyone has ‘looked after’ her, in particular the Queen and Prince Charles, who have been ‘wonderful’, and Prince William, left, whom she described as ‘heaven’. Pictured at Trooping the Colour in 2014