Lord Nicholas Windsor

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Lord Nicholas Windsor
Born	July 25, 1970 (age 36) University College Hospital, London, England
Other names	Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan
Spouse	Paola Doimi di Frankopan
Parents	Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine Worsley

Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (born 25 July 1970) is an extended member of the British Royal Family. He is the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and the great-grandson of George V.

1 Early years
2 Religion
3 Marriage
4 Footnotes

[edit] Early years

Lord Nicholas Windsor was born in 1970 at University College Hospital, London, and was the first member of the British Royal Family to be born in a hospital. He was styled as the younger son of a duke from birth, like all great-grandsons of British sovereigns in the male line. He has an older brother, the Earl of St Andrews, and a sister, Lady Helen Taylor. He was baptised on 11 September 1970 at Windsor Castle. His godparents included Charles, Prince of Wales and Donald Coggan ^[1].

Lord Nicholas was educated at Westminster School, where he was bullied. He then went to Harrow. He dropped out of Manchester College, Oxford to go trekking round Africa^[2]. When he was 18 years old he received a police caution for possession of cannabis after being searched in St. James's Park^[3] and later was reported to have suffered from an eating disorder ^[4].

[edit] Religion

In a private ceremony in 2001 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, and therefore permanently forfeited his right of succession to the British throne. The Act of Settlement bars past or present Roman Catholics, and those who marry Roman Catholics, from the succession. His mother, the Duchess of Kent, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994, the first member of the British Royal Family to do so in modern times. Lord Nicholas is a Patron of the Society of King Charles the Martyr ^[5].

[edit] Marriage

Lord Nicholas met Paola Doimi de Frankopan, also a Roman Catholic, at a New York party in 2001,^[6] and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006.^[7] They married in a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office^[8] and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. They married in a religious ceremony on 4 November in the Church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini, in the Vatican. This was thought to be the first time a member of the British Royal Family has ever married in the Vatican.^[9] Any children they have will not hold any title, but will be in succession to the Kent Dukedom and in the unlikely event they are not brought up as Catholics, in line to the throne as well.

Lord and Lady Nicholas are expecting their first child in the later half of 2007 [1]. Regardless of gender, the child will not be titled, and will only carry the Windsor surname.