Lord Nicholas Windsor

Lord Nicholas Windsor is a member of the British Royal Family. He was born July 25, 1970 at University College Hospital, London. He is the third child and second son of HRH the Duke of Kent and HRH the Duchess of Kent, formerly Katharine Worsley.

His father, known as HRH Prince Edward of Kent before succeeding to the royal dukedom, was the elder son of Prince George, Duke of Kent, who was himself the fourth son of King George V. Edward's mother was Princess Marina, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, for whom Lord Nicholas was probably named. Nicholas's mother unofficially relinquished her royal style in 2002 and prefers to be known as Katharine Kent.

Nicholas is Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin-once-removed in the male line, and as such bears the surname Windsor in compliance with Letters Patent issued during World War I adopting that surname for agnatic members of the British dynasty. Although not a prince because he is only a great-grandson of a British monarch, Lord Nicholas was born in the order of succession to the British crown, and is subject to the legal restrictions of both the kingdom's Royal Marriages Act 1772 and the Act of Settlement 1701.

Therefore Nicholas permanently forfeited his right of succession to the British throne when, following his mother, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in a private ceremony in 2001. The Act of Settlement bars past or present Roman Catholics, and those who marry Roman Catholics, from the succession. The Duchess converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994, the first member of the British Royal Family to do so in modern times.

Lord Nicholas is a Patron of the Society of King Charles the Martyr. He is styled as for the younger son of a duke, like all great-grandsons of British sovereigns in the male line. He would have been born His Highness Prince Nicholas of Kent but for the 1917 limitation on royal titles. His own children, if he marries in compliance with the Royal Marriages Act (which still binds him), will be born with the Windsor surname, but without any title or style. His sons will be in succession to the Kent dukedom for life, and his daughters as well as sons will remain in succession to the British throne unless they are received into the Roman Catholic Church.

Nicholas has a brother, George, Earl of St. Andrews, and a sister, Lady Helen Taylor.