Lady Helen Taylor was born Lady Helen Windsor on 28 April 1964 as the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and the Duchess of Kent. She is their second child, and only daughter. A younger brother, Lord Nicholas, was born in 1970, followed by a stillborn brother in 1977.
At the time, the New York Times wrote, “The Duchess of Kent gave birth tonight to a seven-and-a-half-pound girl, her second child. The baby, whose father is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is 12th in succession to the throne but will become 13th when Princess Margaret has her second baby soon.1
As a result of the 1917 Letters Patent, which limits the title of Prince(ss) and HRH to “the children of any Sovereign of the United Kingdom and the children of the sons of any such Sovereign and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales”, Helen is styled as the daughter of a Duke as Lady.
Lady Helen was educated at Eton End School, St Mary’s School and Gordonstoun.
She married Timothy Verner Taylor on 18 July 1992 at St. George’s Chapel. They went on to have four children, who follow her in the line of succession: Columbus (born 1994), Cassius (born 1996), Eloise (born 2003) and Estella (born 2004).
Although she does not perform royal duties, she is the patron of the CLIC Sargent Children’s Cancer Charity. She is currently 47th in the line of succession.
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