The first British Royal to convert to Catholicism in 300 years. A descendant of Oliver Cromwell (Ha!), by all accounts she was a delightful woman, sweet and charitable, with wit and humor. She and her husband were married for 64 years and had three children. A life well lived and an after life well provided for.
May God rest her soul.
There is nothing like Apostolic Secession to help guide you home. I’m happy that she found the correct map…and used it.
Memory Eternal for His handmaid Katherine, and prayers for peace and comfort for all who loved her.
I will be chuckling about her ancestry all weekend.
Someday soon, England has to come back to the Catholic faith. First, one duchess, then the whole, woe-begone royal family. And the whole population, and all of our beautiful old buildings, which were built when England was Catholic.
If they don’t come back soon, it will all fall into the hands of the Moslems.
“Our Kíng back, Oh, upon énglish sóuls!
Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east,
More brightening her, rare-dear Britain, as his reign rolls …”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
… succession….
[ your all very patient with me. ]
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The late Duchess of Kent’s younger son, Lord Nicholas Windsor, also converted to Catholicism. In doing so, he lost his right to succession, as the Crown may not go to a Catholic. When his eldest son was baptized a Catholic in 2007, it was the first time a member of the British royal family was baptized into the Catholic Church since 1688.