Lord Nicholas Windsor
member of the British Royal Family (born 1970); great-grandson of King George V and Queen Mary
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 forfeited his right of succession to the throne. Lord Nicholas has voiced strong anti-abortion views.
Early years
Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan 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, Earl of St Andrews, and a sister, Lady Helen Taylor. He was baptised later that year at Windsor Castle. His godparents included his paternal second cousin Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles III), and Donald Coggan, at the time Archbishop of York and later Archbishop of Canterbury.
Religion
Nicholas's mother, the Duchess of Kent, had been received into the Catholic Church in 1994. He converted to Catholicism in 2001.
On 14 July 2011, 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.
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