House Windsor Aunts Anne, Princess Royal Siblings James, Viscount Severn | Name Lady Windsor Religion Church of England | |
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Parents Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Cousins Princess Eugenie of York, Princess Beatrice of York, Zara Phillips, Prince Harry, Prince William - Duke of C Similar Elizabeth II, Autumn Phillips, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | ||
Lady louise windsor
Lady Louise Windsor (Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor; born 8 November 2003) is the elder child and only daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. She is the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth, Lady Louise was eighth in the line of Succession to the British throne, but is now 11th.
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Life
Lady Louise was born prematurely on 8 November 2003 (at 23:32 GMT) at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey after her mother was rushed there by ambulance from the Wessex home at Bagshot Park, Surrey; Prince Edward was not present for the birth because it came so suddenly. Lady Louise was delivered by the Royal Surgeon and Gynaecologist Marcus Setchell via emergency Caesarean section due to placental abruption, which caused severe blood loss to both child and mother. Louise was transferred to a neo-natal unit in St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, as a precaution. Meanwhile, her mother remained at Frimley Park until she was well enough to be discharged, on 23 November 2003. Lady Louise's name was announced on 27 November. She was baptised in the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 24 April 2004.
Born with esotropia, Louise underwent a 30-minute operation under general anaesthetic in an attempt to correct the problem in January 2006. The operation was unsuccessful, and she had further treatment in late 2013 that corrected her vision. At age 9, she sustained a broken arm falling off a pony.
She is a member of the Guides division, and was previously a Brownie, of Girl Guides of which her grandmother is patron and her mother is president. Her mother was a Brownie (and a member of the other Girl Guide age group divisions) when she was a child. On 29 April 2011, she was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Titles, styles, and honours
Louise is styled as "Lady Louise Windsor", although letters patent issued in 1917 (and still remaining in force today) assign a princely status and the style of Royal Highness to all male-line grandchildren of a monarch. Therefore, all else being equal, Louise would have been styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex. However, when her parents married, the Queen, via a Buckingham Palace press release, announced that their children would be styled as the children of an earl, rather than as princes or princesses. Thus, court communications refer to her as Lady Louise Windsor.
Honours
In June 2008, to recognise a visit by her father to the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba-in-Council named a lake in the north of the province after Lady Louise.