Having given up her job with PR company R-JH following a series of embarrassing public blunders, Prince Edward’s wife Sophie Wessex is to make her first official appearance in her new role as a full-time royal.
She will follow in Princess Diana’s footsteps when she meets up with young children during the opening of a fair at a Surrey kindergarten on April 20.
Sophie and Edward announced in early March that they were quitting their jobs to attend to royal duties in the Queen's Golden Jubilee year and beyond. At the time Edward revealed that while he found running a business "enormous fun” and “immensely rewarding" he was also aware “in the back of my mind that one day things would have to change."
In addition to the outside pressure issuing from the controversy which surrounded their jobs, the couple apparently also times their departure from the workplace to concentrate on starting a family. "With the clock ticking, they were so excited about the possibilities of being parents," said CEO of R-JH, Jack Cassidy, at the time of Sophie’s ectopic pregnancy last December.
It is understood that in future the couple with take joint billing as Earl and Countess of Wessex at any royal engagements, rather than Sophie being described as “accompanying” her husband.
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