Duchess Sophie 'prepared to take risks' as she sets out to 'make a difference' in Royal Family
ok.co.ukThe Duchess of Edinburgh recently became the first member of the Royal Family to visit Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion.
It was a historic visit, which former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond points out, is the latest in a long list of high profile trips to war-torn or otherwise troubled areas of the world. "She is a woman of conviction.This is a cause about which she cares deeply...
sexual violence in war," Jennie tells OK!. "But it was a wider brief than that. She was there on behalf of the foreign office, cementing her role as a key and senior member of the working Royal Family. "It was courageous and highly symbolic: to visit a country at war sends out a message of defiance," Jennie adds. "Sophie is making quite a habit of going to troubled regions of the world: for example Baghdad, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "I think it’s courageous.
She’s a very modest woman carrying out a high profile role without fuss or fanfare, and often without the recognition she is due. "We can expect more of the same from the Duchess because she is not the sort of person to take up a cause and be satisfied with a purely honorary role.
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