Lady Nicholas Windsor
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| Born | Paola Doimi di De Lupis 7 August 1969 London, England |
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| Spouse | Lord Nicholas Windsor |
| Children | Albert Windsor |
Lady Nicholas Windsor (born Paola Doimi de Lupis, later Paola Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan; born 7 August 1969) is the wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor and a minor member of the British Royal Family.
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[edit] Early life
Paola Doimi di Delupis was born in London in 1969. Her father is Louis Doimi di Delupis, later Louis Doimi di Delupis de Frankopan, born in Split in 1939, a minor member of the Croatian nobility who is also of Italian descent [1]. He is a barrister, and a member of Middle Temple and a businessman. Her Swedish mother, Ingrid Detter, is a lawyer and professor in international law. Paola's father's family had fled to England from Croatia during World War II. Paola studied at Wycombe Abbey School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She also has three brothers named Peter, Nicholas and Lawrence Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan Subic Zrinski, the first of whom married in Douai on July 12, 1997 to Jessica Mary Sainsbury, born on March 4, 1970, daughter of Sir Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury, born on June 11, 1932, and wife Susan Mary Mitchell, by whom he has three children: Flora Antonia and Katharina Anna, twins born in 2000, and Francis Louis, born in 2003.
Her father added the surname Frankopan, a Croatian noble family, to their surname by deed poll in Britain. However, he had been deprived of membership in the Croatian Nobility Association because of the disputed use of this name. Ivo Durbesić, the association’s president, told The Times: “He took the name Frankopan, but he is not a descendant of the Frankopan family. He is aristocratic but derives from the Doimi de Lupis bloodline. We strongly disliked the fact that he was using the name Frankopan without any proof that he was related to that family.”
[edit] Marriage
Doimi di Delupis de Frankopan and Lord Nicholas Windsor met at a party in New York City in 2001[2], and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006.[3] They married on 4 November 2006 in the Church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini in the Vatican following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office[4] and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. This was the first time a member of the extended British Royal Family married at the Vatican. [5]
[edit] Family
Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor had their first child, a son, Albert, on 22 September 2007 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.[6][7] Albert and any further children the couple has will not be titled, will only carry the Windsor surname, the first for a direct male line descendant of George V. The eldest son, Albert, is entitled to use the postnomial title of esquire. At birth Albert was 26th in the line of succession[citation needed] and is also in the line of succession to the Kent Dukedom.
[edit] References
- ^ The de Lupis family Italian site
- ^ "Times Online", The Times, 30 September 2006.
- ^ "Royal.gov.uk", Royal Website, 26 September 2006.
- ^ "Royal News", Paul Theroff, 28 October 2006.
- ^ "Independent Catholic News", Independent Catholic News, 31 October 2006.
- ^ "Paola's a new royal mum", The Daily Mail, 3 October 2007.
- ^ "Royal News, 2007", Paul Theroff, 8 March 2007.
