Lady Nicholas Windsor | |
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| Born | Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis 7 August 1969 London, England |
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| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
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| Relatives | Peter Frankopan (brother) |
| Family | Doimi de Lupis (by birth) Windsor (by marriage) |
Lady Nicholas Windsor (born Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis, 7 August 1969) is the wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
Lady Nicholas Windsor was born as Donna Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis, as the eldest child of Don Louis Doimi de Lupis (later added Frankopan Šubić) (1939-2018) and his Swedish wife, Ingrid Detter. [1] [2] Paola used this name as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1989; [3] by 1993 her entry includes the added 'Frankopan Šubić', while parenthetically including her original name for clarification. [4]
Originally, Doimi de Lupis family belonged to an ancient, untitled Croatian nobility of Italian origin dating back to 1200, which owned an ancestral palace in the town of Vis, on the Adriatic coast. [5] [6] The family was granted Venetian nobility in 1753, Austrian nobility in 1855 and the hereditary title of Ritter in 1865. [7] [8] Doimi de Lupis family officially welcomed Franz Joseph I of Austria during his visit to Vis on 12 May 1875. [9]
By the time of her marriage she was known as Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski. [10] She has one sister, Christina, and brothers, Peter, Nicholas, and Lawrence.
Paola Windsor was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was a William Johnston Yapp Scholar. She read Classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she was a Choral Scholar and took a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (M.Phil. equivalent) at Paris IV, La Sorbonne in Philosophy, submitting a thesis in French entitled L'autorité de l'État (English: "The authority of the state"). [11]
As Paola de Frankopan, she has written for Tatler , where she is a contributing editor, and for Vogue USA . [12]
She met her husband, Lord Nicholas Windsor, at a millennium party in New York in 1999, [12] and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006. [1] They married on 4 November 2006 in the Church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini in the Vatican City, following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office, [13] and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. This was the first time a member of the British royal family married at the Vatican. [14] For the ceremony in Vatican City the bride wore a Valentino gown and opted to wear no jewellery. [15] A 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". [16]
Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor's first child, a son, Albert Louis Philip Edward, was born on 22 September 2007, at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. At birth Albert was 26th in the line of succession. 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. [17] Lady Nicholas gave birth to their second child, Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph, on 8 September 2009 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and their third son, Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor, on 27 May 2014.
Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b 25 July 1970, Married 19 Oct. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski
Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b 25 July 1970 Married 19 Oct. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski