Princess Michael - control freak?

So Princess Michael has apparently been unable to resist intervening (actually ‘taking over’) the wedding of her son Lord Freddie to Sophie Winkleman.
This is making headlines all over the UK press as HRH apparently has chosen the bride’s dress, settled on the venue at Hampton Court, invited the world’s royals and now finds herself in difficulties because the bride’s parents’ generous ‘contribution’ (hardly what it’s normally called when the bride’s family pay for a wedding!) doens’t stretch far enough to provide all the delights she’s planning. As a result, it is alleged she sent her chauffeur to France to pick up Champagne from a French supermarket.
So, she’s apparently hi-jacking her soon-to-be daughter-in-law’s wedding, which is troubling enough in itself. How does she think their relationsip will develop from now on? If she thinks she’s equipped to take over such big decisions for the bride on her most special day...where will it stop?
Will she be still there muscling in on their honeymoon? Will she choose their first home, their decor, their whole lifestyle? Will she decide when they should have their first baby, be there and then be the one to decide on the name? I do hope not.
But those fanciful suggestions only help to underline just how wrong her current intervention is. It is not HER big day; it belongs to her son and daughter-in-law. One dreads to think what might happen in future years when they realise she’s stolen it from them.
And this leads me on to ponder about the whole complex relationship. I have never forgotten watching Princess Michael arrive at Wimbledon a few years ago in the company of her son. She appeared to dote on him. Indeed, their interaction suggested that she hang on his every word, laughed at his every joke. I remember thinking to myself that she was in love with him.
If anything signaled a mother who couldn’t ‘let go’, that was it. So, if she still thinks of Freddie as an extension of herself, if she still feels the world revolves around him, if he’s still the very focus of her world....what a disastrous start that is likely to portend for a marriage.
I don’t envy Sophie when they’re on honeymoon and he has to keep taking calls from his Mum. I don’t envy her the rest of her life, basically.
Her parents, who seem to be being side-lined in this whole affair would do well to be very very wary. We all know mothers-in-law who emasculate their sons. They need to make sure their daughter gets and keeps a say in every decision from hereon in....even if she finds it easy to give way to ‘the boss’ right now.