Editing Lord Nicholas Windsor

{{Short description|Member of the British Royal Family, great grandson of King George V}}
{{Redirect|Louis Windsor|the son of Prince William, Prince of Wales|Prince Louis of Wales}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Lord Nicholas Windsor
| honorific_prefix   = 
| image              = Lord Nicholas Windsor 2013.JPG
| caption            = Lord Nicholas in 2013
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1970|07|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Denmark Hill]], London, England
| relatives          = [[House of Windsor]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan]]|19 October 2006}}
| children           = 3
| father             = [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]]
| mother             = [[Katharine Worsley]]
| occupation         = 
| education          = [[Harrow School]]
| alma_mater         = [[Harris Manchester College, Oxford]]
}}

'''Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor''' (born 25 July 1970) is a relative of the [[British royal family]], the youngest child of [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]]. As a [[Catholic]] convert, he has forfeited his right of succession to the throne. Lord Nicholas has voiced strong [[anti-abortion]] views.

== Early years ==
Lord Nicholas Windsor was born on 25 July 1970 at [[King's College Hospital]] in [[Denmark Hill]], [[London]], to [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]] and [[Katharine, Duchess of Kent]]. He has an older brother, [[Lord St Andrews]], and a sister, [[Lady Helen Taylor]]. He was baptised later that year at [[Windsor Castle]]. His godparents included [[Charles, Prince of Wales]] (later King Charles III), and [[Donald Coggan]], at the time [[Archbishop of York]] and later [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1824206/king-charles-lord-nicholas-windsor | title=King Charles's lesser-known relative who said 'abortion is worse than al Qaeda' | date=16 October 2023 }}</ref>

==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>

==Marriage and family==
Lord Nicholas met his future wife, [[Lady Nicholas Windsor|Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski]],<ref name="British Royal Family">{{cite web|last1=Black|first1=A and C|title=British Royal Family|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/royals|publisher=Who's Who, Oxford University Press - 2015|access-date=10 August 2015|quote=Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b 25 July 1970 Married 19 Oct. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221223119/http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/royals|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> at a party in New York City in 1999 to mark the Millennium.<ref name="British Royal Family"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/my-royal-wedding-paola-de-frankopan-remembers-her-own-marriage-into-the-british-royal-family/ |title=My Royal Wedding: Paola de Frankopan Remembers Her Own Marriage into the British Royal Family |work=Vogue Daily |author=Paola de Frankopan |date=28 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109062958/http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/my-royal-wedding-paola-de-frankopan-remembers-her-own-marriage-into-the-british-royal-family/ |archive-date=2014-01-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He became engaged to her in July 2006. Following a [[civil ceremony]] on 19 October 2006 in a London [[register office]],<ref name="British Royal Family"/> the couple had a religious marriage on 4 November 2006 in the Church of [[St Stephen of the Abyssinians]] in [[Vatican City|the Vatican]] and by the marriage the bride became Lady Nicholas Windsor. As required by the [[Royal Marriages Act 1772]], [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]] consented to the marriage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/files/word/Draft%20List%20-%20Oct.doc |title=Privy Council |publisher=Privy Council |access-date=2012-01-19 |format=Microsoft Document |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101103140224/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/files/word/Draft%20List%20-%20Oct.doc |archive-date=3 November 2010 }}</ref> A [[Early day motion|House of Commons Early Day Motion]] welcomed "the first overt 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 to take place within the Vatican City State".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2005-06/2905/ |title=Early Day Motion |publisher=Parliament.uk |access-date=2006-02-11|format=Microsoft Document}}</ref>

Lord and Lady Nicholas have three sons:

* Albert Louis Philip Edward Windsor (born 2007)
* Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph Windsor (born 2009)
* Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor (born 2014)

Their eldest son is the first Windsor to carry the name Albert since [[King George VI]]. An Early Day Motion in the House of Commons welcomed the baptism of Albert as the first royal child to be baptised a Catholic since 1688.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2007-08/1866 |title=Early Day Motion |publisher=Parliament.co.uk |access-date=2008-06-24|format=Microsoft Document}}</ref>

==Authored articles==
* {{cite news|last1=Windsor|first1=Nicholas|title=The world doesn't have a right to abortion|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8817337/The-world-doesnt-have-a-right-to-abortion.html|access-date=17 January 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|location=London|date=10 October 2011}}
* {{cite magazine |last1=Windsor |first1=Lord Nicholas |title=If we can abolish slavery, we can end abortion |url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/if-we-can-abolish-slavery-we-can-end-abortion/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Catholic Herald]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208042008/http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2011/10/27/if-we-can-abolish-slavery-we-can-end-abortion/ |archive-date=8 December 2011 |access-date=25 November 2023 |date=27 October 2011}}{{cbignore}}

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