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Other names
  
Paula Frankopan

Religion
  
Roman Catholic

Name
  
Lady Windsor


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Full Name
  
Princess Dona Paola Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan

Born
  
7 August 1969 (age 54) (
1969-08-07
)
London, England

Alma mater
  
St Paul's Girls' SchoolWycombe AbbeyGonville and Caius CollegeParis IV

Role
  
Spouse
  
Children
  
Albert Windsor, Leopold Windsor

Parents
  
Louis Frankopan, Ingrid Detter de Frankopan

Grandparents
  
Thyra Carin Hellberg Detter, Nils Andreas Detter

Similar People
  
Lord Nicholas Windsor, Ingrid Detter de Frankopan, Katharine - Duchess of Kent, Prince Edward - Duke of K

Lady Nicholas Windsor (née Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis, previously Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan Šubić Zrinski; born 7 August 1969) is the wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

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Early life

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Lady Nicholas Windsor was born as Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis (she used this name until her time as an undergraduate at Cambridge). By the time of her marriage she was known as "Princess" Paola Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan Šubic Zrinski in London in 1969. Her father is Louis, Prince Frankopan, Count Doimi de Lupis, born in Split, Yugoslavia, in 1939, a member of the old Croatian and Italian nobility.

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Lady Nicholas' father came to England from Croatia after the Second World War to attend a boarding school and then go to Oxford University. Her father is a barrister (member of Middle Temple) and a businessman; her mother, Ingrid Detter de Frankopan, is a distinguished Professor Emerita at Stockholm University.

Her father was born Louis Doimi de Lupis and later controversially added the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, having previously adopted the title of Count. While the Doimi de Lupis family were granted a knighthood by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865, their right to use the name and titles of the Frankopan family has been disputed. Lady Nicholas herself attended Cambridge under her birth name of 'Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis' (in 1989); by 1993 her entry includes the added 'Frankopan Šubic', whilst parenthetically including her original name for clarification.

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

Education and career

Paola Windsor speaks seven languages, and 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 on L'autorité de l'État (English: "The authority of the state") in French.

She has, as Paola Frankopan, written for The Tatler, where she is a contributing editor, and for Vogue USA. She has published an introduction to the history of the Sanctuary of Trsat 'Trsatska Sveta Kuća', in Croatian. In 2006 The Times published an article suggesting that the family had added Frankopan to their surname by deed poll but later published a retraction and a clarification. The Times corrected the article, stating:

"Since 2006 a judgment of the Italian courts has confirmed the genealogical entitlement and the right of all members of the Frankopan family to make use of the titles Princes Frankopan Šubić and Counts Doimi de Lupis, even if, for political reasons, they did not always use them. The Frankopan family did not change its name under UK law as stated above."

Marriage and family

She met her future husband, Lord Nicholas Windsor, at a party in New York in 1999 to mark the Millennium and their engagement was announced on 26 September 2006. They married on 4 November 2006 in the Church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini in Vatican City following a civil ceremony on 19 October 2006 in a London register office and she became Lady Nicholas Windsor. The bride wore a Valentino wedding gown. This was the first time a member of the British Royal Family married at the Vatican.

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. Albert was baptised 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 Cardinal Comastri in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

In late April 2014, it was announced that the couple was expecting their third. A third son, Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor, was born 27 May 2014 and later baptised in the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London.

References

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