Who Is Maud Windsor, Ella Windsor's Adorable Niece?
Maud Windsor's aunt Ella got married today at Windsor Castle, and she served as a royal bridesmaid. Here's what you need to know about the 5-year-old royal.
She’s Ella Windsor’s cousin, and is related to the Queen.
Maud is a granddaughter of Prince Michael of Kent, who is a cousin of the Queen. Her parents are Lord Frederick and Sophie Winkelman, and she also has a younger sister, Isabella. Lord Frederick and his sister, Lady Gabriella, grew up in Kensington Palace alongside Prince William and Prince Harry.
Lord Frederick works at JP Morgan, and Sophie, styled as Lady Frederick Windsor, is an actress who recently appeared in the FX series Trust and previously starred in shows like Two and a Half Men and Peep Show. The two were married in 2009, and Maud was born in 2013.
Maud was born in America.
Maud was born in Los Angeles, where her parents lived at the time, on August 13, 2013. But she was christened back in London at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s Palace.
When she was born, Maud was 42nd in line to the throne. But now, thanks to a few more births, she has been bumped down to 50th in line. After Maud was born, but before Isabella was born, the family moved back to London full-time.
She was named after royalty.
Her full name is Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina Windsor. "We liked the idea of an old-fashioned English name and there are a couple of Princess Mauds in my father's family from a hundred years ago – one was the youngest daughter of Edward VII who ended up being Queen of Norway, and another a grand-daughter of Edward VII by his daughter Princess Louise,” Lord Frederick told Hello! in 2013. "It's also a beautiful, elegant name and it was always our first choice. Elizabeth is a tribute to the Queen, Daphne is Sophie's grandmother, who she was very close to and Marina is my paternal grandmother."
She goes to school with Prince George.
Maud started at Thomas’ Battersea the same year as Prince George, and as she is only one month younger that George, so the two are likely in the same class.
The little royals apparently get along very well, too. Maud’s mother, Sophie, told Hello! the two have had a playdate together. "We were invited to tea at Kensington Palace just before Princess Charlotte was born. Maud and George got on very well,” Sophie said. “He is a very clever, articulate little boy and was speaking long before other toddlers his age."
She was a bridesmaid in Princess Eugenie's wedding.
Young Maud is becoming something of a regular royal bridesmaid. Maud stood alongside her cousin Princess Charlotte as a bridesmaid at Princess Eugenie's wedding in October of 2018, and today, she served as a bridesmaid in her aunt Ella's wedding.
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