Lord Frederick Windsor
Full name
Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor
Father	Prince Michael of Kent
Mother	Princess Michael of Kent
Born	6 April 1979 (1979-04-06) (age 29)
Occupation	Financial Analyst

Lord Frederick Windsor (Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor; born 6 April 1979), popularly known as Lord Freddie, is an English financial analyst who is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (née Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz). Lord Frederick was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom and has a sister, Lady Gabriella Windsor, born in 1981. He is currently 32nd in the line of succession to the British Throne. Had his great-grandfather, George V, not revised Royal styles and titles in 1917, Lord Frederick would have been born HH Prince Frederick of Kent.

Prince Michael's marriage to a Roman Catholic debarred him from succession to the British Throne under the provisions of the Act of Settlement 1701. However, Lord Frederick was brought up in the Anglican Communion and thus keeps his place in the line of succession.

He was educated at Wetherby School, Sunningdale School, Eton College, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a 2:1 in classics. He also attended Fun With Music, a music appreciation class conducted by Ann Rachlin when young. He has also been a trainee at a bank and has done modelling in a campaign for Burberry; he also modeled for Tomasz Starzewski.

A sometime music journalist (notably for Tatler magazine), he planned to become a solicitor working in entertainment law. As he told one newspaper columnist, "I can't stand doing anything dull like EU or trust stuff." In September 2006, according to The Times, Lord Frederick was hired as an analyst at the investment bank JPMorgan in London.^[1]

In 1999, Lord Frederick admitted experimenting with cocaine. "I admit it is true," he said. "It is very difficult to avoid getting into this sort of thing when you move in these circles, but I don't blame anyone else for the incident."^[2]

Ancestry

Patrilineal descent

Lord Frederick Windsor's patriline is the line from which he is descended father to son.

His patrilineal descent (the principle behind membership in Germanic royal houses) can be traced back through the generations -- which means that if Lord Frederick Windsor were to choose an historically accurate house name it would be Wettin, as all his male-line ancestors have been members.

The line diverges from the British royal line at Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and from then on follows his paternal ancestors.

Descent before Conrad the Great is taken from fabpedigree.com and may be inaccurate.

House of Wettin

1. Burkhard I, Duke of Thuringia, d. 870
2. Burchard, Duke of Thuringia, 836 - 908
3. (possibly) Burkhard III of Grabfeldgau, 866 - 913
4. Dedi I, Count in the Hessegau, 896 - 957
5. (probably) Dietrich I, Count of Wettin, d. 976
6. (possibly) Dedi II, Count in the Hessegau, 946 - 1009
7. Dietrich II of Wettin, 991 - 1034
8. Thimo I, Count of Wettin, d. 1099
9. Thimo II the Brave, Count of Wettin, d. 1118
10. Conrad, Margrave of Meissen, 1098 - 1157
11. Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, 1125 - 1190
12. Dietrich I, Margrave of Meissen, 1162 - 1221
13. Henry III, Margrave of Meissen, c. 1215 - 1288
14. Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, 1240 - 1314
15. Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, 1257 - 1323
16. Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, 1310 - 1349
17. Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia, 1332 - 1381
18. Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 1370 - 1428
19. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, 1412 - 1464
20. Ernest, Elector of Saxony, 1441 - 1486
21. John, Elector of Saxony, 1468 - 1532
22. John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 1503 - 1554
23. Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1530 - 1573
24. John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1570 - 1605
25. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, 1601 - 1675
26. John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1658 - 1729
27. Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1697 - 1764
28. Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1724 - 1800
29. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1750 - 1806
30. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1784 - 1844
31. Albert, Prince Consort, 1819 - 1861
32. Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1841 - 1910
33. George V of the United Kingdom, 1865 - 1936
34. The Prince George, Duke of Kent, 1902-1942
35. Prince Michael of Kent, 1942-
36. Lord Frederick Windsor, 1979-

Notes

1. ^ Prufrock: TV show becomes reality for Vodafone, The Times, September 3, 2006. Accessed May 30, 2008.
2. ^ Queen's cousin: I took cocaine, BBC News, September 5, 1999. Accessed May 30, 2008.