Lady Louise 21st birthday - end of privacy?

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

So first of happy 21st birthday to Lady Louise!

I wouldn’t have even realised save for seeing a few articles online showing her celebrating with her boyfriend. The photos have been credited to Facebook and shows her posing for a photo and looking into the camera, but also a photo of her posing for a selfie and not seeming to be aware someone is photographing her. It looks like the media have been trawling through her/friends Facebook accounts or else someone has sold her out. Is this is now that she is 21? Is she not entitled to privacy any more? Is she going to get stalked and papped from now on?

Who is she? Do I need to know about her? Is my life complete without this knowledge?

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I doubt it as I don’t think there’s much interest in Louise or any of the peripherals. I had to Google to see who she is.

Lady Louise is Edward and Sophie’s eldest.

You say that but I feel like over the past few years the Daily Mail has had a bit of an obsession with her considering how minor a royal she is and how young she was at the time.

That’s kind of the point I’m making. She was under the radar as she was a minor/at university. Yet as soon as she’s turned 21 she’s got private Facebook photos of her plastered over the media.

For those saying “no interest” - she’s at a bit of a risk as there’s no other younger single adult royals now. The others are 30/40+ married and a bit boring, or school aged and off limits.

if she was similar aged to the other cousins (William, Harry, Beatrice, Zara etc) then she might have slipped through but as she’s sort of a stand alone who might be the only one going out partying, then yep, she’s going to get the press showing an interest until the Wales kids are ready to be judged.

@PrettyFlyforaMaiTai she is still at st andrews uni so she will get her privacy respected by the public. all the stars walk about there and no one really bats an eyelid. the only time i have seen a small crowd was around bill clinton when he was on the green at the old course. we were at the himalayas at the same time, just across from him (putting green) I have seen prince william in w h smith and no entourage was needed. (I was buying the new Will Young cd (cringe) and he was two behind me in the queue! no one said anything.

Barring Louise and James, Eugenie is the youngest of Queen Elizabeth’s grandkids. She is 34, married and has two kids. They’ve all settled down now and there’s approximately 10 years before George and Charlotte are considered fair game to be papped coming out of nightclubs. I think it’s naive to think that Louise and James won’t be chosen to plug in that gap. It’s just a little creepy that her privacy has been broken and it’s revealed she has a boyfriend as soon as she turned 21.

Sure, but there’s no indication she’s going to provide any kind of tabloid fodder, is there? She’s the rather dreary child of dreary parents (Guiding, ponies, carriage driving, St Andrews, garden centre), with every appearance that she’ll keep on the straight and narrow for all time. As is obviously her right, but I think the tabloids will have to work very hard to even find amusingly awful hats or unsuitable fancy dress costumes.

Yes, one asked oneself the same question.

Oh, do we have our own section now?
I just trawl through the 'Trending' and see what's popular with you lot.

She’s the rather dreary child what a nasty thing to say.
im sure she is lovely.

@VitaminSubtle - true she might be a “quiet dinner with friends wearing shapeless clothes and teetotal” type of posh girl, but the press are going to hope otherwise once her uni days are up.

It’s not at all nasty. It’s perfectly possible to be ‘lovely’ and dreary. But as neither of us know her, it’s supposition either way.

I suppose drear is one way of combating tabloid interest, like Greta Garbo holding a tissue up to her face every time she went into the street, so no one ever got a good photo. Even if the media veto on covering her is no longer in operation, one imagines there’s limited appetite for photos of an unobtrusive-looking young woman in a fleece potting begonias.

Many people just look at Active Threads rather than specific sections.

Maybe! It’s also (just!) she’s a savvy type who is secretly given to black masses, being a furry, and conducting a torrid affair with her security detail, but is cleverly covering this with an appearance of pastel dutifulness.😀

In which case, clever woman. Long may you secretly run rampant.

She's into carriage driving, an interest she shared with the late DofE. There are lots of photos online of her at carriage driving events.

I mean, she’s a quiet student who works in a garden centre. I don’t think there’s going to be masses of tabloid fodder provided!

They were official events though. I think this is the first time she’s had photos of herself published in a private capacity. She was partying with her boyfriend. Did we even know she has a boyfriend prior to these photos?

The photos I presumed where taken by a photographer at the club? I haven't been to a club in years but I presume they still have photographers going round posting to their Facebook pages? So there will have been others in there in the sake situation.

No idea who she is.

There's nothing dreary about those things. Don't be nasty.

For some you have to be dressed in tarty clothes from Pretty Pussy with sausage lips and Prussian lashes to be not dreary 🙄

I think she is an absolutely lovely person.
we don’t even know her but from what I’ve read and how lovely her mother is.