Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988), known professionally as Eddy Downpatrick, is a British travel consultant, fashion designer, and former financial analyst. He is a member of the extended British royal family.
As second-in-line to the Dukedom of Kent, he uses one of his grandfather's subsidiary titles, Baron Downpatrick, by courtesy. A second cousin once removed of Charles III, Downpatrick is the most senior member of the House of Windsor to be excluded from the line of succession to the British throne owing to his Roman Catholic faith.
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Early life and family
Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor was born on 2 December 1988 at St Mary's Hospital, London, and grew up in Cambridge. He is the eldest child of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, son and heir apparent of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. Downpatrick's mother, Sylvana, Countess of St Andrews, a member by birth of the Austrian Tomaselli family, is a Canadian-born historian of Austro-Italian and French extraction. Diana, Princess of Wales, was his godmother.
Downpatrick was educated at Eton College and matriculated at Keble College, Oxford, where he studied modern languages with a specialisation in French and German. He had intended to join the British Army after the university, but had not recovered from rugby injuries.