Lady Louise Windsor

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Lady Louise Windsor
Lady Louise at Trooping the Colour, June 2013
Full name
Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor
House House of Windsor
Father Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Mother Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Born (2003-11-08) 8 November 2003
Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, Surrey, England
Religion Church of England

Lady Louise Windsor[1] (Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor; born 8 November 2003) is the elder child and only daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. She is the youngest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Lady Louise is currently tenth in the line of succession to succeed her grandmother.

Early life

Lady Louise was born prematurely on 8 November 2003 (at 23:32 GMT)[2]at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey after her mother was rushed there by ambulance from the Wessex home at Bagshot Park, Surrey; Prince Edward was not present for the birth because it came so suddenly. Lady Louise was delivered by the Royal Surgeon/Gynaecologist Marcus Setchell via emergency Caesarean section due to placental abruption, which caused severe blood loss to both child and mother. 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 until she was well enough to be discharged, on 23 November 2003. Her name was announced on 27 November.[3] She was baptised in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle on 24 April 2004, and her godparents were: Lady Alexandra Etherington, Lady Sarah Chatto, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Rupert Elliott, and Francesca Schwarzenbach.[4][5]

Born with exotropia, Lady Louise underwent a 30-minute operation under general anaesthetic to correct the problem in January 2006.[6] At age 9, she sustained a broken arm falling off a pony.[7]

Lady Louise is 10th in the line of succession to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms.

Royal duties

She was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on 29 April 2011.[8]

Lady Louise attended her first Trooping the Colour in June 2009, and rode in the carriages with her family at Trooping the Colour for the first time in June 2011.[9] Lady Louise was again present at Trooping the Colour in 2012 and 2013.

Since 2011 Lady Louise has accompanied her parents, grandparents and other members of the royal family on the walk to church on Christmas day in Sandringham. [10]

On Easter 2012, Lady Louise accompanied her paternal grandparents, parents and cousin, Princess Eugenie of York, to the Easter service in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.[11]

In June 2012, Lady Louise attended the Jubilee Thames River Pageant with her parents and younger brother. A few days later Lady Louise accompanied her parents to the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's Cathedral in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.[12]

On 4 June 2013, Lady Louise was the youngest member of the royal family to attend her grandmother's 60th coronation anniversary celebration at Westminster Abbey.[13] On 11 June, Lady Louise along with her brother attended the Coronation festival at Buckingham Palace.[14]

Titles, styles and honours

Titles and styles

  • 8 November 2003 – present: Lady Louise Windsor[1]

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. Therefore, all else being equal, Louise would have been styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex. 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.[15] Thus, court communications refer to her as Lady Louise Windsor.[16]

Honours

In June 2008, to recognise a visit by her father to the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba-in-Council named a lake in the north of the province after Lady Louise.[17]

Ancestry

Her mother descends from Nicholas St. John of Lydiard Tregoze (descendant of King Edward III of England) and his wife, Elizabeth (née Blount, a relative of royal mistress Elizabeth Blount) making her parents 11th cousins, once removed. Lady Louise's mother is also descended from King Henry IV of England[18] and King Henry II of France. Louise is also related to the family of the Viscounts Molesworth by her mother's descent from Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth.[19] Her mother also descended from the Welsh prince and warrior Elystan Glodrydd.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Statement issued by the Press Secretary to the Queen: Announcement of the christening of Lady Louise Windsor - The official website of The British Monarchy
  2. ↑ "Royal baby born prematurely". BBC News. 8 November 2003. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Royal Wessex baby finally named". BBC News. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
  4. ↑ "Buckingham Palace press releases – Christening of Lady Louise Windsor". Royal. Retrieved 15 October 2011. 
  5. ↑ "Royal Christenings". Yvonne's Royalty Home Page. Retrieved 15 October 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Lady Louise Windsor". Debrett's. Retrieved 2 January 2014. 
  7. ↑ "Queen's granddaughter broke arm in pony fall". ITV. Retrieved 2 January 2014. 
  8. ↑ "Royal Wedding: Names of bridesmaids and page boys to take part in royal wedding are confirmed - hellomagazine.com". Royalweddings.hellomagazine.com. 2011-02-14. Retrieved 2012-05-06. 
  9. ↑ "Britain Trooping the Colour Pictures - Monsters and Critics". News.monstersandcritics.com. 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2012-05-06. 
  10. ↑ http://www.emirates247.com/news-in-images/duchess-kate-style-queen-of-christmas-2011-12-26-1.434510
  11. ↑ Doherty, Ruth (2012-04-09). "Princess Eugenie dons stylish hat for Easter service at Windsor Castle : MYDaily UK". Mydaily.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-05-06. 
  12. ↑ "Britain's Prince Edward, Sophie, Countess of Wessex and their daughter Lady Louise Windsor leave after a thanksgiving service to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at St Paul's Cathedral in London". 
  13. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335617/Queen-Elizabeth-II-Prince-Philip-celebrate-HRMs-60th-coronation-anniversary-Westminster-Abbey.html
  14. ↑ http://pinterest.com/jennahpc/trh-prince-edward-sophie-the-countess-of-wessex/
  15. ↑ UK Government News – 19th June, 1999: TITLE OF HRH THE PRINCE EDWARD (Accessed 18 January 2014)
  16. ↑ Kidd, Charles; Shaw, Christine (2008). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's Peerage Limited. ISBN 1870520807. "." 
  17. ↑ "Prince Edward begins Winnipeg visit". The Vancouver Sun (Canada). 2 June 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2010. 
  18. ↑ Charles Mosley, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2720.
  19. ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2731.
Lady Louise Windsor
Born: 8 November 2003
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Viscount Severn		 Line of succession to the British Throne
10th position 		Succeeded by
The Princess Royal
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Princess Eugenie of York		 Ladies
Lady Louise Windsor 		Succeeded by
Zara Phillips
Order of Precedence in England and Wales (Ladies)*
*not including short-term appointments, visiting dignitaries and most peers
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