Royal Sophie’s four-letter defence of Kids Co boss Camila
MEMBERS of the Royal Family are usually the embodiment of diplomacy.
But actress Sophie Winkleman, Prince Michael of Kent’s daughterin-law, has thrown caution to the wind with an outspoken attack on the ‘grubby little t***s’ she blames for damaging the reputation of her friend, the colourful former charity boss Camila Batmanghelidjh.
Camila set up the charity Kids Company, which worked with marginalised children and young people, but it collapsed in 2015 after David Cameron’s coalition government withdrew a £3 million grant following alleged breaches of its terms.
Sophie, 37, half-sister of BBC star Claudia Winkleman and wife of Lord Frederick Windsor, claims government officials ‘went for’ Iranianborn Camila because she’s a woman and a ‘bit foreign’.
Lady Frederick Windsor (pictured, with Freddie) tells me: ‘They don’t tell the truth. Camila was smeared in a terrible way, and her “mistakes” were so minute compared to the magnificence of that charity, and a few grubby little t***s in government tore her to pieces.’
Camila admitted to ‘bending the law slightly’ while running Kids Company, which was closed amid accusations of mismanagement. In distinctly unregal language, Sophie, who played Big Suze in comedy series Peep Show, claims: ‘It was so evil what was done to her and that magnificent company. Getting out a tenner and not logging it? F*** you. I worship the woman.’ Speaking at a Saatchi Gallery party in Chelsea, Sophie, who has two children with Lord Freddie, alleges: ‘It’s always women [who are targeted] and she was a bit foreign, and [so] they destroyed her. ‘I don’t think the Government liked her coming in, telling them how to run the child welfare system, because she was a woman.’ Referring to the safe havens Camila established, Sophie says they are still needed: ‘Because people in Britain are s** t a t looking after their children.’