Lady Marina Windsor

Lady Marina Windsor was born on 30 September 1992 at Rosie Hospital in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.[1] She is the second child of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, and Sylvana Tomaselli. She is a younger sister of Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, and an older sister of Lady Amelia Windsor. She is a paternal granddaughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a first cousin of Elizabeth II, and Katharine, Duchess of Kent, the only daughter of Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet. She is a maternal descendant of the Austrian Tomaselli family. Lady Marina is named after her great-grandmother Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.

On 21 January 1993 Lady Marina was christened Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor in a Church of England ceremony by William Booth, the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. Her godparents are Lady Ralph Kerr, Katherine Ruth Panter, William Hanbury-Tenison, and Sasha Poklewski-Koziell.[2]

Until 2008 Lady Marina was 25th in the line of succession to the British throne.[3][4][5] She forfeited her place in the line of succession, in compliance of the Act of Settlement 1701, along with her older brother, after being confirmed into the Roman Catholic Church of her mother and paternal grandmother.[6][7][8]

Lady Marina attended St Mary's School, Ascot, a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls.[9][10]

In 2010 she modelled for Hardy Amies in Tatler alongside her siblings. She later expressed interest in working in foreign diplomacy and not a modelling career.[10]

In 2011 she attended the wedding of her cousin Prince William, Duke of Cambridge to Catherine Middleton.[11][12] In 2018 Lady Marina and her siblings were reportedly not invited to the wedding of their cousin Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex to Meghan Markle.[13]

In May 2012 Lady Marina travelled to Thailand, where she trained in Muay Thai boxing.[14]