Lady Nicholas Windsor

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
Born	Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis (1969-08-07) 7 August 1969 (age 54) London, England
Education	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University of Paris
Spouse	Lord Nicholas Windsor ​ ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	3
Parents	Louis Doimi de Lupis (father) Ingrid Detter (mother)
Relatives	Peter Frankopan (brother)
Family	Windsor

Early life

Lady Nicholas Windsor was born as Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis. She used this name as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1989;^[1] by 1993 her entry includes the added 'Frankopan Šubić', while parenthetically including her original name for clarification.^[2] By the time of her marriage she was known as Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski.^[3] Her parents are Louis Doimi de Frankopan and his wife Ingrid.^[4]

She has one sister, Christina, and three brothers, Peter, Nicholas, and Lawrence.

Education and career

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").^[5]

As Paola de Frankopan, she has written for Tatler, where she is a contributing editor, and for Vogue USA.^[6] She has published an introduction to the history of the Sanctuary of Trsat (Trsatska Sveta Kuća in Croatian).

Marriage and family

She met her husband, Lord Nicholas Windsor, at a millennium party in New York in 1999,^[6] and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006.^[4] 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,^[7] and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. The bride wore a Valentino wedding gown.^{[citation needed]} This was the first time a member of the British Royal Family married at the Vatican.^[8] 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".^[9]

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.^[10] Albert was baptised with Catholic rites in the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London.

Lady Nicholas gave birth to their second child, Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph, on 8 September 2009 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He was baptised by Angelo Cardinal Comastri in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.^{[citation needed]}

A third son, Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor, was born on 27 May 2014 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and like his brother Albert was baptised with Catholic rites in the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pg 345
2. Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pg 28
3. Black, A and C (2015). . Who's Who. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015. Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b 25 July 1970, Married 19 Oct. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski
4. "Announcement of the engagement of Lord Nicholas Windsor". Buckingham Palace. 26 September 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
5. . Home Renaissance Foundation. 2009. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
6. de Frankopan, Paola (28 April 2011). . Vogue. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
7. Black, A and C. . Who's Who, Oxford University Press - 2015. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015. Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan, (Lord Nicholas Windsor), b 25 July 1970 Married 19 Oct. 2006, Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski
8. "Royal wedding at the Vatican". Independent Catholic News. 31 October 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
9. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2006.
10. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2008.

External links

• The family website 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.
• Doimi de Lupis genealogy (Italian language) hosted by Società Genealogica Italiana – SGI (President- Marchese Marco Lupis) Retrieved 26 September 2009.