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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 and Duchess of Kent.
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 Her Royal Highness The Princess Edward, Duchess of Kent (Katharine Lucy Mary Windsor, formerly Worsley), styled HRH The Duchess of Kent.
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, the Duchess of Kent, 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.
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.
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