Happy Birthday to Lady Amelia Windsor - 25 today!! 🎉🎂🎁🥂♥️
Thread - see below to find out all about today's birthday girl - her life, career, achievements and passions...
Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor was born #OTD in 1995. Her parents are the Earl & Countess of St. Andrews, and she is granddaughter of the Duke of Kent (first cousin of HMQ).
She is 39th in the line of succession.
Amelia is the youngest of three children. She has a brother George, Lord Downpatrick (born 2/12/88) and sister Lady Marina (30/9/92).
She has a tattoo of 3 bear cubs on her wrist representing the 3 siblings. The 3 of them had seen the 3 cubs on a family holiday to Canada as kids!
Teenage years...
1. On the balcony at TTC with Prince Charles, 2008
2. Pre-wedding gala for W&C wedding with mum Sylvana.
3. W&C wedding with her family.
4. Her school - St. St. Mary's, Ascot. In 2013, she achieved A-Levels in Art History, French and Latin.
At the age of 18, Amelia came out at the highly prestigious and glamorous Bal des Débutantes at the Raphael Palace
in Paris, where she wore this stunning Elie Saab gown!
Next, she took a Gap Year, travelling in India & Thailand, and working for the charity Veterans' Aid, before beginning her degree in French & Italian at the University of Edinburgh.
Aged 20, she did her first Tatler cover shoot in 2016, featuring these stunning photos...
More stunning pics from the Tatler shoot...
In 2017, she made her catwalk debut for D&G at Milan Fashion Week (pic 1) and starred in their photoshoot for Fall 2017 collection (2 & 3). On the runway again for D&G in 2018 (pic 4).
Amelia has starred in campaigns for Penelope Chilvers shoes, and helped to design the "Amelia boots" (pics 1 & 2).
20% of the proceeds from her collection were donated to the charity War Child.
In 2018, she became the face of Illamasqua’s Reign of Rock range (pic 3).
She shot her second Tatler cover with rugby star Maro Itoje in October 2018 and this summer appeared on the cover of Elle Italia...
One of Amelia's passions is travel, and another is photography. These photos are from a trip to Morocco, published in Vogue in 2017.
Last year, Amelia designed her own jewellery collection in collaboration with Tada & Toy. It is inspired by Romeo and Juliet and the joy of dancing.
She is donating 5% of all sales going to the Aspinall Foundation, a wildlife charity that protects rare and endangered species.
Amelia lives in Notting Hill, London, with her sister Marina.
For the recent lockdown, her IG showed she was at a rural location, probably her parents' home in Cambridgeshire.
See more pics of her London home here:
https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/lady-amelia-windsors-london-flat
In 2018, Amelia ran the London Parks Half Marathon in aid of War Child.
She regularly works out, and practices yoga. She made this fitness video for Tatler:
Amelia loves live music and has been seen at Glastonbury and last year at Neil Young / Bob Dylan gig in Hyde Park. She also loves shopping at markets like Portobello Road.
Thanks for reading - hope you've enjoyed finding out some more about Lady Amelia Windsor!

#HappyBirthdayLadyAmelia !! 🎁🎂♥️
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