Lord Nicholas Windsor

Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (born 25 July 1970) is a relative of the British royal family, youngest child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. As a Catholic convert, he has forfeited his right of succession to the throne. Lord Nicholas has voiced strong anti-abortion views.

Early Years

Lord Nicholas 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, Lord St Andrews, and a sister, Lady Helen Taylor. He was baptized later that year at Windsor Castle. His godparents include Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles III) and Donald Coggan, at the time Archbishop of York and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Religion

Lord Nicholas's mother, The Duchess of Kent, had been received into the Catholic Church in 1994.

On 14 July 2011, Lord 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.

Lord Nicholas is also a patron of the Society of King Charles the Martyr and, though it is a largely Anglican society, he identifies it with his catholic faith. In a passage written by Windsor for the Society's website, he extolls Charles's virtues: "In the King's personal piety, devotion and support of the Church, his ecumenical understanding (far advanced for his day), his patronage of the Arts in the service of God, his inspiration of the Christian classic, Eikon Basilike and of course his martyrdom, we have much to REMEEMBER and be thankful for."

Lord Nicholas had voiced strong views on the issue of abortion, which he has stated is, as a societal threat, "worse than al-Qaeda."

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House: Windsor