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==Religion== Lord Nicholas's mother, the Duchess of Kent, had been received into the [[Catholic Church]] in 1994. Lord Nicholas himself converted to Catholicism in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9076668/The-Queens-cousin-says-We-are-prejudice-victims.html |title=The Queen's cousin says: We are prejudice victims |newspaper=The Telegraph|location=London |last=Eden |first=Richard |date=12 February 2012 |access-date=13 November 2017}}</ref> On 14 July 2011, Lord Nicholas became an Honorary Vice-president of the Friends of the [[Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham]], an [[Anglican Ordinariate]] within the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk/about-us/|title=About us|work=Friends of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham|accessdate=11 August 2022}}</ref> Lord Nicholas is also a patron of the [[Society of King Charles the Martyr]] and, though it is a largely Anglican society, he identifies it with his Catholic faith.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2011-11-29 |title=WORD OF WELCOME {{!}} SKCM |url=http://skcm.org/welcome/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> In a passage written by Windsor for the Society's website, he extolls Charles's virtues: "In the King's personal piety, devotion and support of the Church, his ecumenical understanding (far advanced for his day), his patronage of the Arts in the service of God, his inspiration of the Christian classic, Eikon Basilike and of course his martyrdom, we have much to REMEMBER and be thankful for."<ref name=":0" /> Lord Nicholas has voiced strong views on the issue of [[abortion]], which he has stated is, as a societal threat, "worse than [[al-Qaeda]]".<ref name=walkereden>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8212980/Abortion-is-worse-than-al-Qaeda-says-Duke-of-Kents-son-Lord-Nicholas-Windsor.html |title='Abortion is worse than al-Qaeda,' says Duke of Kent's son Lord Nicholas Windsor |last1=Walker |first1=Tim |last2=Eden |first2=Richard |newspaper=The Telegraph|location=London |date=20 December 2010 |access-date=13 November 2017}}</ref>
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