Happy birthday to Lady Nicholas Windsor , who celebrates turning 55 today. No doubt the Cambridge and Sorbonne graduate, who at the time of her history-making wedding to Lord Nicholas Windsor was known as Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Šubić Zrinski, will be celebrating with her royal in-laws, the Duke and Duchess of Kent , but who is the rarely seen wife of Prince William ’s cousin, who deep Catholic faith saw her take centre stage at the first royal wedding ever to be held in the Vatican City?

Born in London to Louis Doimi de Lupis, sicon of a Croatian noble house , and Swedish law scholar Ingrid Detter, Paola enjoyed a thoroughly British education. Her early studies at St Paul’s Girls ’ School (where alumnae include Hannah Rothschilde) and Wycombe Abbey (where sh

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