Lady Helen Taylor
Lady Helen Taylor | |
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Born | Helen Marina Lucy Windsor 28 April 1964 Iver, Buckinghamshire, England |
Occupation | Business representative |
Spouse |
Timothy Taylor (m. 1992) |
Children | 4 |
Parents |
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Relatives | House of Windsor |
Education |
Lady Helen Marina Lucy Taylor (née Windsor; born 28 April 1964) is a relative of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Katharine, Duchess of Kent, and a great-granddaughter of George V. She is currently 47th in the line of succession to the British throne.
Early life and youth
Born at Coppins, a country house in Iver, Buckinghamshire, Lady Helen is the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. She was educated at Eton End[1] School in Datchet, then at St Mary's School, Wantage,[2] and Gordonstoun.[3] At Gordonstoun, she was one of 20 sixth form girls "in the robustly masculine environment of Gordonstoun," wrote Alan Hamilton.[4]
She was called "Melons" in the popular press.[5][6]
"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" [7]
During the 1980s her boyfriend was
According to Lol Tolhurst of The Cure, Lady Helen was a "mad Cure fan" who visited the band backstage at a gig in Bath in 1983.[10]
Career
After she left Gordonstoun (where she had art class), she was desperate[11] to come to London and earn money, starting in 1984 at Christie's auction house in their Contemporary Department.[12]
Lady 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.[13]
For 17 years, Lady Helen was a fashion ambassador and muse to Giorgio Armani.[14]
Marriage and children
At 19, Lady Helen met
In 1998, her husband was diagnosed with
Lady Helen and her husband have four children, who immediately follow her in the
- 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
She is a trustee of
She is on the advisory board of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera after being a trustee.[12][18][19]
References
- ISBN 9780688013806.
- ISBN 9780810874978.
- ISBN 9780026154307.
- ISBN 9780907516934.
- ^ People Magazine Archive: Windsor Castle Lights Up with Lasers as the 'queenyboppers'—four Royal Cousins—turn 21 Archived 13 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine 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."
- ISBN 9780451492272. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "How Lady Helen said farewell to Melons". scotsman.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "why so wild about harry?". scotsman.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ "The Londoner: The naked truth of Mary Beard at college". standard.co.uk. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-78429-339-0.
- ^ a b c "Portrait of a Lady". standard.co.uk. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ a b c "Who we are". The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ 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..."
- ISBN 9781351565547. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via Google Books.;. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- "In the June issue: Giorgio Armani lunch". www.tatler.com. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2018.;
- "Shanghai In Style". newsweek.com. 16 May 2004. Retrieved 21 May 2018.;
- "The Rich, the Famous and the Royal". Royalty Magazine. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2018.;
- Dean Starkman. "Stretched Ethics". Columbia Journalism Review