Lady Louise Windsor

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Lady Louise Windsor
Princess Louise of Wessex
Lady Louise with her parents
Full name
Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor
Titles
Lady Louise Windsor
Royal House	House of Windsor
Father	The Earl of Wessex
Mother	The Countess of Wessex
Born	8 November 2003 Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey

The Lady Louise Windsor (Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor; born 8 November 2003) is a member of the British Royal Family. She is the only child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex (née Rhys-Jones). She is 8th in line to the throne and has been since her birth in 2003.

[edit] Early life

Lady Louise was born, prematurely, on 8 November 2003, at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, after her mother was rushed there by ambulance from the couple's home at Bagshot, Surrey. Lady Louise was born by emergency Caesarian section, necessitated by a placental abruption, causing severe blood loss to both child and mother, before her due date in December. The Countess of Wessex had earlier had an ectopic pregnancy. Owing to its suddenness, Prince Edward was not present for the birth. Lady Louise was transferred to a neo-natal unit in St George's Hospital, Tooting, London as a precaution. The Countess, meanwhile, remained at Frimley Park Hospital, until she was well enough to be released.

Lady Louise was released from hospital on 23 November and her name was announced on 27 November; [1] She was baptised in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle on 24 April 2004 with Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Lady Sarah Chatto, Lady Alexandra Etherington, Mrs Francesca Schwarzenbach and Mr Rupert Elliott her godparents [2].

Lady Louise is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. Until her birth, the first ten positions in the order of succession remained unchanged for over 13 years after the birth of her cousin, Princess Eugenie in 1990.

[edit] Titles, Styles, Honours & Arms

[edit] Titles

2003-: The Lady Louise Windsor

legally 2003-: Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex

[edit] Notes

As a granddaughter of the monarch in the male line, she is legally and officially Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex, not Lady Louise Windsor, and, when she comes of age, she may legally use the title Princess Louise if she wishes. However, when her parents married, they decided that their children would be styled as the children of an Earl rather than as princes or princesses with the style Royal Highness. This was so they could avoid the full burden of royal titles and the responsibility that comes with them. However, in the absence of letters patent, Lady Louise legally remains a Princess of the United Kingdom, regardless of how she is styled in practice.

The Queen loves to spend time with Louise it has been reported. She loves to take pictures of her youngest granddaughter when she visits the Queen.

She is the Queens youngest grandchild and is a number of years younger than her cousins Peter and Zara Phillips, Prince William and Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice. She was born 13 years after Princess Eugenie and many speculate that because she is not close in age to any of her cousins that she will grow up distanced from her royal cousins and possibly from the royal family and lead a life away from the media spotlight, like David Armstrong-Jones and Sarah Chatto, the children of Princess Margaret.

[edit] External link

• BBC News- "Royal baby born prematurely"

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