Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick

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Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988) is the only son and heir of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and his wife, the Countess of St. Andrews (née Sylvana Tomaselli).

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. 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 is currently a student at Eton College. He was one of 17 godchildren of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Lord Downpatrick grew up in the locality of Cambridge, England where his mother is an academic.