Lady Helen Taylor

"Helen Taylor" redirects here. See also Helen Taylor (feminist).
The Lady Helen Taylor
Born 28 April 1964 (1964-04-28) (age 47)
Coppins, Iver, Bucks
Occupation Business representative
Spouse Timothy Taylor
Parents Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Katharine, Duchess of Kent

The Lady Helen Taylor (Helen Marina Lucy Taylor, née Windsor; born 28 April 1964) A first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, she is a great-granddaughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and is in the line of succession to the British throne.

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Early life and youth

Born at Coppins, a country house in Iver, Buckinghamshire, Lady Helen is the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage and Gordonstoun. Between 1987 and 1991, Lady Helen worked with the art dealer Karsten Schubert and confessed in a television interview that she had turned down representing artist Damien Hirst.

In her youth, she was tagged with the nickname of Melons owing to her large breasts[1][2][3] and was often referred to as the wild child of the Windsors as a result of her active social life and choice of friends. One of her friends, Olivia Channon, the daughter of Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon, died of a drug overdose while at Oxford. Lady Helen has been quoted as saying that this death and that of another friend served as a wake-up call concerning her own lifestyle choices.[4]

Marriage and children

She was styled The Lady Helen Windsor until her marriage, on 18 July 1992, to Timothy Verner Taylor (b.8 august 1963), an art dealer and the eldest son of Commander Michael Verner Taylor, RN and Susan G. Percy. They married at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. She is the only one of the Duke of Kent's children that remains in the line of succession to the British throne given that both of her brothers married Catholic women.

Lady Helen is now styled The Lady Helen Taylor. She and her husband have four children, who immediately follow Lady Helen in the line of succession:

Ancestry

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References

  1. ^ PEOPLE MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Windsor Castle Lights Up with Lasers as the 'queenyboppers'—four Royal Cousins—turn 21 July 08, 1985 Vol. 24 No. 2 "Lady Helen Windsor, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, is known as "Melons" because of her ample proportions." & "True to form, Lady Helen—"Melons"—was at the center of the party's only controversy. Her ex-boyfriend, Oakes, crashed the event and was escorted out by police."
  2. ^ A royal lady who's perfectly Taylor-ed by LIZ JONES Last updated at 11:25 07 December 2006 The Daily Mail
  3. ^ The day Lady Helen cracked over her husband's ordeal by JAMES MILLS, Daily Mail, Tuesday, Aug 30 2011 3PM "She has always accepted the media attention that comes with her position but yesterday she said she is less than enamoured with being called Melons. 'Oh I hate that,' she said. 'It was the only thing that irritated me.' "
  4. ^ The ghost of Olivia by GEOFFREY WANSELL for The Daily Mail 08:18am on 31st August 2006. Accessed July 9 2007