Lady Louise Windsor

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The Lady Louise Windsor
Princess Louise of Wessex
Full name
Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary[1]
Titles and styles
The Lady Louise Windsor
Royal house House of Windsor
Father Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Mother Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Born 8 November 2003 (2003-11-08) (age 4)
Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey
Baptised 24 April 2004
Windsor Castle, Berkshire

The Lady Louise Windsor (Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 November 2003) is a member of the British Royal Family. She is the elder child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. She is the youngest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Lady Louise is 9th in line to the throne and at the time of her birth was 8th.

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[edit] Early life

Lady Louise was born, prematurely, on 8 November 2003, at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, after her mother was rushed there by ambulance from the couple's home at Bagshot Park, Surrey. She was delivered by emergency Caesarean section, necessitated by a placental abruption, causing severe blood loss to both child and mother, before her December due-date. The Countess of Wessex had previously suffered an ectopic pregnancy. Prince Edward was not present for the birth because it came so suddenly. Lady Louise was transferred to a neo-natal unit in St George's Hospital, Tooting, London as a precaution. Meanwhile, the Countess remained at Frimley Park Hospital until she was well enough to be released.

British Royal Family

HM The Queen
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
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Lady Louise was released from hospital on 23 November and her name was announced on 27 November.[2] She was baptised in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle on 24 April 2004 with Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Lady Sarah Chatto, Lady Alexandra Etherington, Francesca Schwarzenbach and Rupert Elliott as her godparents.[3].

Lady Louise is ninth in the line of succession to the British throne. Until her birth, the first ten positions in the order of succession remained unchanged for over 13 years after the birth of her cousin, Princess Eugenie in 1990.

Louise was born with the eye disorder exotropia. In January 2006 it was unofficially revealed that Lady Louise had undergone a 30-minute operation under general anaesthetic to correct the problem. [4]

[edit] Titles and styles

  • 8 November 2003 —: The Lady Louise Windsor[5]
    • Legally: Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex

Letters patent issued in 1917 (and still remaining in force today) assign a princely status and the style of Royal Highness to all male-line grandchildren of a monarch. Louise is thus entitled to all of these, and as such would be referred to as Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex.[6] However, when her parents married, the Queen, via a Buckingham Palace press release, announced that (in hopes of avoiding some of the burdens associated with royal titles) their children would be styled as the children of an earl rather than as princes or princesses. Thus, court communications never refer to her in terms of a Princess of the United Kingdom, but simply as The Lady Louise Windsor.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Given her proper title under the 1917 Letters Patent, HRH Princess Louise of Wessex holds no surname; but, when court communications give her a surname in order to refer to her without this royal style, it is Windsor.
  2. ^ BBC NEWS | UK | Royal Wessex baby finally named
  3. ^ Buckingham Palace press releases – Christening of Lady Louise Windsor
  4. ^ The Royalist - Lady Louise Windsor Makes A Rare Public Appearance
  5. ^ Hardman, Robert (2007-11-29). "The Line of Succession to the British Throne", Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work. Druck, Wemding, Germany: Ebury Press, 265. ISBN 978-0-09191-842-2. 
  6. ^ Royal Styles and Titles – 1917 Letters Patent

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[edit] Ancestry


Lady Louise Windsor
Born: 8 November 2003
British royalty
Preceded by
Viscount Severn		 Line of succession to the British Throne
9th position		 Succeeded by
Anne, Princess Royal
Order of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Princess Eugenie of York		 Ladies
Lady Louise Windsor		 Succeeded by
The Duchess of Gloucester
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UK Order of Precedence (Ladies)*
Persondata
NAME Windsor, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mountbatten-Windsor, Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary
SHORT DESCRIPTION Elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York
DATE OF BIRTH 8 November 2003
PLACE OF BIRTH Frimley, Surrey, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH