Lord Frederick Windsor

Lord Frederick Windsor (Frederick Michael George David Louis; born 6 April 1979), also nicknamed Freddie Windsor, is a British financial analyst, and the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

Family

Windsor was born on 6 April 1979 at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, England. His sister, Lady Gabriella Windsor, was born on 23 April 1981 in the same hospital. His father is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and so Lord Frederick is a first cousin once removed of the Queen. He is also related to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, since he and Lord Frederick's paternal grandmother, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, were first cousins (their fathers were the sons of George I of Greece). That means that Lord Frederick and Prince Philip are first cousins, twice removed: Philip's paternal grandfather is Frederick's paternal great-great-grandfather. At the same time, Queen Victoria is the maternal great-great-grandmother of Prince Philip and the paternal great-great-great-grandmother of Lord Frederick; that makes them third cousins once removed. He is 46th in the line of succession to the British Throne and 8th in the line of succession to the Dukedom of Kent.

Prince Michael's marriage to a Roman Catholic debarred him from succession to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms under the provisions of the Act of Settlement 1701, until he was reinstated with the coming into force of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 which removed the disqualification of those who marry Roman Catholics. Lord Frederick and Lady Gabriella were brought up in the Church of England, thus both keeping their places in the line of succession.

Education

He was educated at Wetherby School, Sunningdale School, Eton College, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a 2:1 in Classics. He has also been a trainee at a bank and has worked as a fashion model for a campaign by Burberry and for the designer Tomasz Starzewski.

Personal life

A sometime music journalist (notably for Tatler magazine), he planned to become a solicitor working in entertainment law. In September 2006, according to The Times, Lord Frederick works as a Chartered Financial Analyst at the investment bank JPMorgan in London.^[1]

On St Valentine's Day (14 February) 2009, Lord Frederick became engaged to actress Sophie Winkleman.^[2] The Queen consented to the marriage, as required under the Royal Marriages Act 1772,^[3] and they were married at Hampton Court on 12 September 2009.^[4]

The couple's first child, Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina, was born at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on 15 August 2013 in Los Angeles.^[5] Maud is named after two English princesses, Princess Maud of Wales and the former's niece Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk; Queen Elizabeth II; her mother's grandmother Daphne; and her father's grandmother, Princess Marina. She was baptised at St James's Palace in December 2013 and has Princess Eugenie of York amongst her godparents.^[6][7]

On 20 January 2016, it was announced Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor had become parents to a girl, Isabella Alexandra May, born on 16 January 2016 at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.^[8] She was christened at Kensington Palace in June 2016 with Jamie Oliver, a close friend of her mother, serving as one of the godparents.^[8]

In September 2016 it was announced that Lord Frederick had become President of the employment education charity, Soldier On!

On 21 February 2017 Lord Frederick was inducted into the Grand Order of Water Rats charitable fraternity.^[9]

Ancestry

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