King Charles' rarely seen relative whose children have the poshest royal names
One of the biggest hallmarks of King Charles' reign is that the number of royals who appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for national events has been vastly reduced.
Gone are the days of more than thirty members of the extended royal family standing together to wave at the public, as the King is now only joined by the most senior royals and his Wales grandchildren.
Among the many people who no longer appear on the iconic balcony is Lord Nicholas Windsor.
Lord Nicholas was born in London on July 25, 1970 to the Duke and Duchess of Kent and is the younger brother of George, Earl of St Andrews and Lady Helen Taylor.
The Duchess of Kent with baby Nicholas (Getty)He was chosen to serve as one of King Charles' pageboys when he married Diana, Princess of Wales in 1981.
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Nicholas was educated at Westminster Under School and Harrow School, before going on to study theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
He met his future wife Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis in New York in 1999 and the pair married in 2006 - first in a civil ceremony in London and later in a religious marriage in the Vatican.
He has since forfeited his right to the throne under the Act of Settlement 1701 as he was received by the Catholic church in 2001.
Lord Nicholas (R) was one of the couple's pageboys (2011 Getty Images)They share three sons who have all been given the most unbelievably royal names.
Their oldest son, Albert Louis Philip Edward Windsor was born in 2007 and was the first royal to be given the name 'Albert' since The Queen's father was born in 1895.
Their second son's name is Leopold Ernest Augustus Guelph Windsor. His name holds many historic links to Queen Victoria as two of her uncles were named Leopold and Augustus and her father-in-law and brother-in-law were both called Ernest.
The couple have three children (2011 Getty Images)
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The couple's third son was born in London in 2014 and was named Louis Arthur Nicholas Felix Windsor.
The practice of giving younger royals incredibly aristocratic names is something that has fallen out of fashion during the last decade as many of the late Queen's great-grandchildren have more 'normal' names, such as Savannah, Mia and Archie.
While Lord and Lady Nicholas's three sons all have long, royal names they are certainly not the most eccentric.
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The member of the Royal Family who carried perhaps the most unbelievably royal name was Queen Elizabeth's uncle, King Edward VIII (later The Duke of Windsor).
When he was born in 1894, he was named Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David after several of his family members and the four Patron Saints.
His mother, Queen Mary, tops this as she was given eight names at birth. Her full name was Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes.
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