Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
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| Edward Windsor | |
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| Lord Downpatrick | |
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| Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor | |
| Father | George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews |
| Mother | Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews |
| Born | 2 December 1988 London, United Kingdom |
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (Edward Edmund Maximilian George Louis Windsor; born 2 December 1988) is the only son and heir-apparent of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and his wife, the Countess of St Andrews.
His father is the elder son of the Duke and his wife the Duchess of Kent. Lord Downpatrick is heir after his father to the Dukedom of Kent and for this reason enjoys the courtesy title Lord Downpatrick. In 2003, following the examples of his mother, his grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, and his uncle, Lord Nicholas Windsor, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church and therefore was struck from the line of succession to the British Throne. Since his mother, too, is a Roman Catholic, his father was struck from the succession upon marrying her. Lord Downpatrick is the most senior person excluded from the line of succession for being a Catholic under the Act of Settlement 1701. He has two younger sisters, Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, and Lady Amelia Windsor, who unlike him are Protestant. He was one of 17 godchildren of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. In October 2007, he entered Keble College, Oxford to study Modern Languages.
He will become the first Roman Catholic to hold the title of Duke of Kent since the Reformation.
Lord Downpatrick grew up in the locality of Cambridge, United Kingdom where his mother is an academic. He attended Eton College and is currently a student at Oxford University.
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