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Reports Say Lord Nicholas Windsor and Paola Frankopan Have Separated After 19 Years

Buckingham Palace has declined to comment on the coverage.

Overview

  • Multiple outlets cite the Daily Mail and a family friend in reporting the couple have been separated for some time.
  • Paola, Lady Nicholas Windsor, did not attend the Duchess of Kent’s requiem at Westminster Cathedral, where Lord Nicholas appeared without her.
  • Tatler reports Lord Nicholas was accompanied by the couple’s three sons, Albert, Leopold and Louis, during the mourning rites.
  • The pair married in 2006 with a Catholic ceremony in Vatican City, described as the first such royal wedding since the 16th century.
  • Lord Nicholas converted to Roman Catholicism in 2001, which removed him from the line of succession, and their eldest son’s baptism was noted as the first royal Catholic baptism since 1688.