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The 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 the current Duke of Kent and Katharine Worsley. Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony The British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. ...
July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. ...
His father is His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. The Duke is Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin. Lord Nicholas's mother is HRH The Duchess of Kent, who relinquished her royal style in 2002 and prefers to be known as Katharine Kent. This article is about the present Duke of Kent. ...
Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...
Her Royal Highness Princess Edward, Duchess of Kent (Katharine Lucy Mary Windsor, formerly Worsley), styled HRH The Duchess of Kent, is a member of the British Royal Family the wife of HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a grandson of King George V and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The...
Lord Nicholas lost his place in the line of succession to the British throne when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in a private ceremony in 2001. He followed his mother into the Roman Catholic church. The Duchess converted to Catholicism in 1994, the first member of the British Royal Family to do so in modern times. An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony The British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. ...
Lord Nicholas is omitted from the succession to the throne by the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 which bars past or present Roman Catholics or those who marry Roman Catholics from the succession. Interestingly, his mother the Duchess's conversion does not cause her husband to lose his place in the succession. An apparent loophole in the Acts of Settlement omits only those who marry Roman Catholics. The Duke married a fellow member of the Church of England, who only subsequently converted to Roman Catholicism, escaping the censure in the Act. The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm 3 c. ...
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
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