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Prince William to lean on rarely-seen royal who takes after late Queen, expert says

EXCLUSIVE: Lady Louise Windsor is a member of the University Officers' Training Corps at St Andrews and is said to be making it known she wants to follow in the footsteps of her late grandmother

While the strictures of the slimmed-down monarchy are by now very well-known, there have been times that the likely future of what the Royal Family could look like under Prince William's reign have been showcased with his close cousins joining him at engagements. And while his two youngest cousins - Lady Louise Windsor, 21, and James, Earl of Wessex, 17, - are still in education, a leading expert has suggested that the pair could be on hand in the future, especially because of the influence their mother, and indeed the late Queen, have had on them. Lady Louise in the St Andrews University Officer Training Corps (Image: standrewsuotc/Instagram)"Nevertheless, her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) gave her a taste of military life – and she really enjoyed it.

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