Lady Helen Taylor

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Early life and youth

Helen Marina Lucy Windsor was born on 28 April 1964 at Coppins, a country house in Iver, Buckinghamshire, the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. She was christened on 6 June in the private chapel at Windsor Castle by the Dean of Windsor Rt. Rev. Robin Woods. Her godparents were Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon; Hon. Angus Ogilvy, Myra Butter, and Sir Philip Hay.[1]

She was educated at Eton End[2] School in Datchet, then at St Mary's School, Wantage,[3] and Gordonstoun.[4] At Gordonstoun, she was one of 20 sixth form girls "in the robustly masculine environment of Gordonstoun," wrote Alan Hamilton.[5]

She was called "Melons" in the popular press.[6][7]

I was slightly chubby, it was the boys at Gordonstoun who called me that. I think there are only about two people who call me that now. The original context has long gone[8]

During the 1980s, her boyfriend was Nigel Oakes, who "appalled the Queen" after she smuggled him into her parents' grace-and-favour home, York House, St James's Palace.[9][10]

According to Lol Tolhurst of The Cure, Helen was a "mad Cure fan" who visited the band backstage at a gig in Bath in 1983.[11]

Career

After she left Gordonstoun (where she had art class), she was desperate[12] to come to London and earn money, starting in 1984 at Christie's auction house in their Contemporary Department.[13]

Helen worked with the art dealer Karsten Schubert between 1987 and 1991, behind the front desk, and was later credited with discovering Rachel Whiteread and Gary Hume, but confessed in a television interview that she had turned down representing artist Damien Hirst.[14]

For 17 years, Helen was a fashion ambassador and muse to Giorgio Armani.[15]

Marriage and children

At some point Helen reportedly dated David Flint Wood, who would later marry her cousin India Hicks.[16]

At 19, Helen met[12] Timothy Verner Taylor (born 8 August 1963), an art dealer. They married nine years later, on 18 July 1992, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The bride wore a Catherine Walker design.[17] Giorgio Armani provided an outfit for her wedding.[18]

In 1998, her husband was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.[12]

Helen and her husband have four children, who immediately follow her in the Line of succession to the British throne:

  • Columbus George Donald Taylor (born 6 August 1994)
  • Cassius Edward Taylor (born 26 December 1996)
  • Eloise Olivia Katherine Taylor (born 2 March 2003)
  • Estella Olga Elizabeth Taylor (born 21 December 2004)

Charity work

She is a patron of the CLIC Sargent children's cancer charity.[19]

She is a trustee of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.[13]

She is on the advisory board of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera after being a trustee.[13][20][21]

Authored articles

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References

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  6. ↑ People Magazine Archive: Windsor Castle Lights Up with Lasers as the 'queenyboppers'—four Royal Cousins—turn 21 Template:Webarchive 8 July 1985 Vol. 24 No. 2 "Lady Helen Windsor, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, is known as "Melons" because of her ample proportions." & "True to form, Lady Helen—"Melons"—was at the center of the party's only controversy. Her ex-boyfriend, Oakes, crashed the event and was escorted out by police."
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  14. ↑ The Anniston Star. 19 July 1992. Anniston, Alabama Page 23 "Lady Helen is a director of London's Karsten Schubert gallery of contemporary art. Taylor, 29, is a dealer with the Waddington Galleries..."
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Lady Helen Taylor
Born: 28 April 1964
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granddaughter of George, Duke of Kent
great-granddaughter of George V Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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