Lady Nicholas Windsor
{{Short description|European noble (born 1969)}}
{{EngvarB|date=June 2017}}
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| name = Lady Nicholas Windsor
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| birth_name = Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|08|07|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| relatives = Peter Frankopan (brother)
| family = Windsor
| spouse = {{marriage|Lord Nicholas Windsor|19 October 2006}}
| children = 3
| father = Louis Doimi de Lupis
| mother = Ingrid Detter
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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.
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;Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pg 345 by 1993 her entry includes the added 'Frankopan Šubić', while parenthetically including her original name for clarification.Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pg 28 By the time of her marriage she was known as Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski.{{cite web|last1=Black|first1=A and C|title=British Royal Family|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/royals|work=Who's Who| publisher=Oxford University Press |year= 2015|accessdate=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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221223119/http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/royals|archivedate=21 February 2015}} Her parents are Louis Doimi de Frankopan and his wife Ingrid.{{cite web |url= https://www.royal.uk/announcement-engagement-lord-nicholas-windsor?page=1 |title=Announcement of the engagement of Lord Nicholas Windsor |work=Buckingham Palace |date=26 September 2006 |accessdate=21 July 2014}}
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").{{cite web |url=http://www.homerenaissancefoundation.org/homeorg/patrons_detalle5255.html |title=Patrons: The Lady Nicholas Windsor, Paola Windsor |publisher=Home Renaissance Foundation |year=2009 |accessdate=21 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226182135/http://www.homerenaissancefoundation.org/homeorg/patrons_detalle5255.html |archive-date=26 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}
As Paola de Frankopan, she has written for Tatler, where she is a contributing editor, and for Vogue USA.{{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 |first=Paola |last=de Frankopan |work=Vogue |date=28 April 2011 |accessdate=21 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=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/ |archivedate=9 January 2014 |df=dmy-all }} 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, 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 Vatican City, following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office,{{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}} and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. The bride wore a Valentino wedding gown.{{CN|date=November 2021}} This was the first time a member of the British Royal Family married at the Vatican.{{cite web |url= http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=6890 |title=Royal wedding at the Vatican |work=Independent Catholic News |date=31 October 2006 |accessdate=21 July 2014}} 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".{{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}}
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.{{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}} 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.{{CN|date=November 2021}}
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.{{CN|date=November 2021}}
References
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External links
- The family website [http://www.lupis.it/rami%20vitali.htm#Le%20Linee%20di%20Dalmazia%20e%20Fiume 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.
- [http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-lettere/letteral/Lupis/Lupis%20di%20Dalmazia.htm Doimi de Lupis genealogy] (Italian language) hosted by Società Genealogica Italiana – SGI (President- Marchese Marco Lupis) Retrieved 26 September 2009.
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