Lady Nicholas Windsor
| Lady Nicholas Windsor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis 7 August 1969 London, England |
| Other names | Paula Frankopan |
| Alma mater |
St Paul's Girls' School Wycombe Abbey Gonville and Caius College Paris IV |
| Spouse(s) | Lord Nicholas Windsor (m. 2006) |
| Children | Albert Windsor Leopold Windsor Louis Windsor |
| Parent(s) | Don Louis Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan Dona Ingrid Detter de Frankopan |
Lady Nicholas Windsor (née Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis, later known as 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.
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 de Frankopan", "Count" Doimi de Lupis, born in Split, Yugoslavia, in 1939, a member of the old Croatian and Italian nobility.
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, and a member of Middle Temple and a businessman. Her mother, Ingrid Detter, is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at .
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.
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 (MPhil) at Paris IV, La Sorbonne in Philosophy, submitting a thesis on L'autorité de l'État in French.
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