Lady Nicholas Windsor
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Lady Nicholas Windsor is the wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor
, son of the Duke
and Duchess of Kent.
"Since 2006 a judgment of the Italian courts has confirmed the genealogical entitlement and the right of all members of the Frankopan family to make use of the titles Princes Frankopan Frangipane Subić and Counts Doimi de Lupis, even if, for political reasons, they did not always use them. The Frankopan family did not change its name under UK law as stated above."
In 1991, both of Paola's parents were appointed official spokespersons for the Croatian Government. Immediately after the end of the Croatian War of Independence, Paola's father, Prince Louis Frankopan founded the Croatian Nobility Association, a private non-governmental organisation, but after internal disagreements, he resigned from the Association. Paola's brother, Peter, Senior Fellow of Worcester College at Oxford University and Director of the University's Centre for Byzantine Studies, says that the "title (of the family) is not any claim on anything. It is just a reflection of the age of the family". He says that his family split from other branches of the Frankopan family in the 14th century. Doimo III Frangipani or Frankopan, (+ 1348), Prince of Veglia, married Elisabetta Subich, daughter of Jakab, Prince of Bribir (+ post 1347); see
in 1939, a member of the Croatia
n and the Italian nobility. Paola's father came to England from Croatia after the Second World War to attend a boarding school and then go to Oxford University. Her father is a Barrister
, and a member of Middle Temple
and a businessman. Her mother, Ingrid Detter, is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, sometime Fellow of LMH and of St. Antony's College, Oxford and sometime Advisor on International Law to HH John Paul II, professor of international law, double doctor, D.Phil. (Oxon), Jur.Dr.(Stockholm), Lic. en droit (Paris) and Dipl. Diritto Europeo (Turin), Barrister at Lincoln's Inn.
She has one sister, Christina, and three brothers; Peter, Nicholas and Lawrence, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis.
Lady Nicholas' sister Christina is an investment banker, who is married to Patrick Nicholson, Head of Communications for Caritas Internationalis in the Vatican.
Paola's eldest brother Peter, D.Phil. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Oxon); M.A. (Cantab), is a historian and author of 'The First Crusade'. He is Director of Oxford University's Centre for Byzantine Research. He is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University. He is a Governor of Wellington College and trustee of the World Monuments Fund. Together with his wife, he founded Cambridge University's Frankopan Directorship for Gender Studies.
The second brother, Nicholas, M.A. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Cantab); MBA (Columbia), is an investment banker in London.
Her youngest brother, Lawrence, is Head of Lagardère
UK.
She has, as Paola Frankopan, written for The Tatler where she is a contributing editor and for Vogue USA She has published and introduction to the history of the Sanctuary of Trsat 'Trsatska Sveta Kuča', in Croatian.
following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office
and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. This was the first time a member of the British Royal Family married at the Vatican.
, London. Albert and any further children the couple has will not be titled, will only carry the Windsor surname, the first for a direct male line descendant of George V
. At birth Albert was 26th in the line of succession
. Lord Nicholas and his sons are also in the line of succession to the Kent Dukedom as well.
Lady Nicholas gave birth to their second child, Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph, on 8 September 2009 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
. On 11 September 2009 article from a British tabloid mentions the birth of an unnamed second child, but no name is provided. The child's name is listed on an Italian-language website.
The elder son, Albert or Bertie, was baptised as a Catholic in the Queen's Chapel in St. James's Palace and his younger brother Leopold, was baptised by Cardinal Comastri in St Peter's in the Vatican.
Lord Nicholas Windsor
The Lord Nicholas Windsor is the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, a great-grandson of King George V of the United Kingdom, and a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II....
, son of the Duke
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
The Duke of Kent graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 29 July 1955 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys, the beginning of a military career that would last over 20 years. He was promoted to captain on 29 July 1961. The Duke of Kent saw service in Hong Kong from 1962–63...
and Duchess of Kent.
Family History
In 2006 The Times published an article suggesting that the family had added Frankopan to their surname under British Civil law but later published a retraction and a clarification. The Times corrected the article, stating:"Since 2006 a judgment of the Italian courts has confirmed the genealogical entitlement and the right of all members of the Frankopan family to make use of the titles Princes Frankopan Frangipane Subić and Counts Doimi de Lupis, even if, for political reasons, they did not always use them. The Frankopan family did not change its name under UK law as stated above."
In 1991, both of Paola's parents were appointed official spokespersons for the Croatian Government. Immediately after the end of the Croatian War of Independence, Paola's father, Prince Louis Frankopan founded the Croatian Nobility Association, a private non-governmental organisation, but after internal disagreements, he resigned from the Association. Paola's brother, Peter, Senior Fellow of Worcester College at Oxford University and Director of the University's Centre for Byzantine Studies, says that the "title (of the family) is not any claim on anything. It is just a reflection of the age of the family". He says that his family split from other branches of the Frankopan family in the 14th century. Doimo III Frangipani or Frankopan, (+ 1348), Prince of Veglia, married Elisabetta Subich, daughter of Jakab, Prince of Bribir (+ post 1347); see
Early life
Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan was born in London in 1969. Her father is Prince Louis de Frankopan, Count Doimi de Lupis, born in SplitSplit (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...
in 1939, a member of the Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n and the Italian nobility. Paola's father came to England from Croatia after the Second World War to attend a boarding school and then go to Oxford University. Her father is a Barrister
Barrister
A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
, and a member of Middle Temple
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...
and a businessman. Her mother, Ingrid Detter, is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, sometime Fellow of LMH and of St. Antony's College, Oxford and sometime Advisor on International Law to HH John Paul II, professor of international law, double doctor, D.Phil. (Oxon), Jur.Dr.(Stockholm), Lic. en droit (Paris) and Dipl. Diritto Europeo (Turin), Barrister at Lincoln's Inn.
She has one sister, Christina, and three brothers; Peter, Nicholas and Lawrence, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis.
Lady Nicholas' sister Christina is an investment banker, who is married to Patrick Nicholson, Head of Communications for Caritas Internationalis in the Vatican.
Paola's eldest brother Peter, D.Phil. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Oxon); M.A. (Cantab), is a historian and author of 'The First Crusade'. He is Director of Oxford University's Centre for Byzantine Research. He is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University. He is a Governor of Wellington College and trustee of the World Monuments Fund. Together with his wife, he founded Cambridge University's Frankopan Directorship for Gender Studies.
The second brother, Nicholas, M.A. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Cantab); MBA (Columbia), is an investment banker in London.
Her youngest brother, Lawrence, is Head of Lagardère
Lagardère Group
Lagardère is a French-based multinational conglomerate headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The group once covered a broad range of industries but is now largely focused on the media sector, in which it is one of the world’s leading companies...
UK.
Education and Career
Lady Nicholas Windsor speaks seven languages fluently, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was William Johnston Yapp Scholar. She read Classics at Cambridge University where she was a Choral Scholar and took a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondis (MPhil) at Paris IV, La Sorbonne in Philosophy, submitting a thesis on L'autorité de l'Etat in French.She has, as Paola Frankopan, written for The Tatler where she is a contributing editor and for Vogue USA She has published and introduction to the history of the Sanctuary of Trsat 'Trsatska Sveta Kuča', in Croatian.
Marriage
Paola Frankopan met her future husband at a party in New York in 1999 to mark the Millenium and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006. They married on 4 November 2006 in the Church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini in the VaticanVatican City
Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office
Register office
A register office is a British term for a civil registry, a government office and depository where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded and where you can get officially married, without a religious ceremony...
and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. This was the first time a member of the British Royal Family married at the Vatican.
Family
Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor's first child, a son, Albert, on 22 September 2007, was born at the Chelsea and Westminster HospitalChelsea and Westminster Hospital
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a public hospital located on Fulham Road, in the Chelsea area of London, England. It is managed by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and opened in May 1993.-History:...
, London. Albert and any further children the couple has will not be titled, will only carry the Windsor surname, the first for a direct male line descendant of George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
. At birth Albert was 26th in the line of succession
Line of succession to the British Throne
The line of succession to the British throne is the ordered sequence of those people eligible to succeed to the throne of the United Kingdom and the other 15 Commonwealth realms. By the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, the succession is limited to the descendants of the Electress Sophia of...
. Lord Nicholas and his sons are also in the line of succession to the Kent Dukedom as well.
Lady Nicholas gave birth to their second child, Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph, on 8 September 2009 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a public hospital located on Fulham Road, in the Chelsea area of London, England. It is managed by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and opened in May 1993.-History:...
. On 11 September 2009 article from a British tabloid mentions the birth of an unnamed second child, but no name is provided. The child's name is listed on an Italian-language website.
The elder son, Albert or Bertie, was baptised as a Catholic in the Queen's Chapel in St. James's Palace and his younger brother Leopold, was baptised by Cardinal Comastri in St Peter's in the Vatican.
External links
- The family site La Casata dei Lupi, (Italian language), contains photos of Lord and Lady Nicholas, their first son Albert, and members of the Lupis family. Retrieved 26 September 2009. As of 26 September 2009, this was the only source online that had the name of the second son as Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph Windsor. This name has been confirmed in the 1st November by an official announcement sent to family members: "PAOLA AND NICHOLAS ANNOUNCE WITH JOY THE BIRTH OF THEIR SECOND SON LEOPOLD A BROTHER TO ALBERT BORN ON THE 8th OF SEPTEMBER 2009 8lb 2oz".
- Doimi de Lupis genealogy (Italian language) hosted by Società Genealogica Italiana - SGI. Retrieved 26 September 2009. The page calls Lady Nicholas Windsor "S.A.R. Lady Paola Luisa Marica Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan Subich", and her sons "S.A.R. Lord Albert (Bertie) Louis Philip Edward Windsor" and "S.A.R. Lord Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph Windsor". Her husband's great-grandfather George V of the United KingdomGeorge V of the United KingdomGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
and his sons abandoned the use of all German titles, including the titles of Duke/ Duchess of Saxony in 1917. Her husband and her sons are descendents of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family and the Kings of England). The site reflects the Italian protocol and customs, according to the "Cerimoniale della Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana", stating that all the members of a sovereign and reigning families that come to visit Italy, are addressed as "Le Loro Altezze Reali", (LLAARR) (English TRH) or "Sua Altezza Reale" "SAR" (en.: HRH) etc. (check the official site of "Ministero degli affari Esteri - Cerimoniale diplomatico).