Nicholas Windsor

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Lord Nicholas Windsor, 2013

Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (born July 25, 1970 in London ) is a member of the British royal family and a second nephew of Queen Elizabeth II .

He is the youngest child of Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent , and Katharine, Duchess of Kent , and a great-grandson of King George V . As the younger son of a duke , he uses the courtesy address "Lord" Nicholas Windsor.

Early years

Lord Nicholas Windsor was born on July 25, 1970 at King's College Hospital , Denmark Hill, London . He has an older brother, George Windsor, Earl of St. Andrews, and a sister, Lady Helen Taylor. He was baptized on September 11, 1970 at Windsor Castle . His godparents included Charles, Prince of Wales and Donald Coggan , then Archbishop of York and later Archbishop of Canterbury .

Windsor was educated at Westminster Under School and then Harrow School . He later attended Harris Manchester College, Oxford , where he studied theology .

religion

In a private ceremony in 2001, he was accepted into the Catholic Church and therefore forfeited his right to inherit the British throne . His mother had already converted in 1994. Catholics are excluded from the throne by the Act of Settlement 1701 .

On July 14, 2011, he became Honorary Vice President of the Staff Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham , an Anglican order within the Catholic Church.

Windsor described abortion as a threat to society that was "worse than al-Qaeda ".

Marriage and family

Windsor met his future wife, Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski, at a millennium party in New York City in 1999 . He got engaged to her in July 2006. They married on November 4, 2006 in the Santo Stefano degli Abissini in the Vatican after a civil ceremony on October 19, 2006 in a London registry office and thus became Lady Nicholas Windsor. He was the first member of the English royal family to marry there since the Reformation. Under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 , the Queen of the United Kingdom consented to the marriage. The House of Commons welcomed "the first marriage within the rites of the Catholic Church of a member of the Royal Family since the reign of Queen Mary I and the first marriage of a member of the Royal Family within the Vatican ".

Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor had their first child, a son, Albert Louis Philip Edward Windsor, on September 22, 2007 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. Albert is the eighth grandchild of the Dukes and the Duchess of Kent. The child is the first Windsor since King George VI. bears the name Albert. The House of Commons welcomed the baptism of Albert as the first royal child to be baptized Catholic since 1688. Albert was baptized in a Catholic ceremony in the Queen's Chapel next to St James's Palace in London.

Lady Nicholas gave birth to the couple's second child, Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph Windsor, on September 8, 2009 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Leopold was baptized on May 29, 2010 by Angelo Cardinal Comastri in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. A third son, Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor, was born on May 27, 2014.

Lord Nicholas and his sons are still in the line of succession to the Duke of Kent title , whose succession is not affected by the Act of Settlement 1701. He and his sons are third, fourth, fifth, and sixth in the line of succession to the title.

Charity

In 2011 Windsor was inducted into the Pontifical Academy for Life . He is a signatory to the San José Articles, which promote the protection of the unborn child.

In 2007 Windsor accepted the invitation to become the Patron of Bromley Mind. The position is a public declaration of his support for their work and he makes a practical contribution from time to time by sponsoring special events and fundraisers.

Windsor has worked for Refugee Council in London, the DePaul Trust for the homeless and a school for autistic children. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC. He is a trustee of the Catholic National Library UK and the Right to Life Charitable Trust, an educational institution whose aim is the complete protection of the unborn child. Windsor is the royal patron, along with his wife Paola of the Christian Heritage Center at Stonyhurst.

He wrote for First Things magazine on abortion, an article that was included in the United States Congressional Report by Congressman Chris Smith . He has written on the subject of abortion in the Telegraph and the Catholic Herald .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharine, Duchess of Kent leaving Kings College Hospital n Denmark ... Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Richard Eden: The Queen's cousin says: We are prejudice victims . The Telegraph , February 12, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ Tim Walker, Richard Eden: 'Abortion is worse than al-Qaeda,' says Duke of Kent's son Lord Nicholas Windsor . December 20, 2010, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed May 26, 2020]).
  4. ^ A and C Black: British Royal Family . Who's Who, Oxford University Press - 2015. Archived from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015: “Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b July 25, 1970 Married October 19. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski "
  5. ↑ Paola de Frankopan: My Royal Wedding: Paola de Frankopan Remembers Her Own Marriage into the British Royal Family . In: Vogue Daily . April 28, 2011. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014.
  6. ^ Royal News , Paul Theroff. October 28, 2006. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved on August 20, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Tim Walker: 'Abortion is worse than al-Qaeda,' says Duke of Kent's son Lord Nicholas Windsor . In: The Telegraph , December 20, 2010. Retrieved November 13, 2017. 
  8. ^ Privy Council (Microsoft Document) Privy Council. Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  9. ^ Early Day Motion (Microsoft Document) Parliament.uk. Retrieved February 11, 2006.
  10. ↑ Royal News 2006, Section I. December 5, 2009, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  11. ↑ BAPTISM OF ALBERT LOUIS PHILLIP EDWARD WINDSOR - Early Day Motions. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Wayback Machine. July 19, 2013, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ La Casata dei Lupi - I Rami Vitali. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  14. ^ Nomination of New Corresponding Members . academiavita.org. February 11, 1994. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  15. ↑ SanJoseArticles . SanJose Articles. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  16. ↑ Patrons and Trustees | RTLCT . Righttolifetrust.org.uk. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  17. ^ The people. The Christian Heritage Center, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Article | First things. January 11, 2012, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Lord Nicholas Windsor Urges New Abolitionism . nrlc.org. December 22, 2010. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  20. ^ Nicholas Windsor: The world doesn't have a right to abortion . October 10, 2011, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed May 26, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Windsor, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windsor, Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British member of the British royal family
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH London