Portrait of Lady Helen Marina Lucy Taylor (née Windsor, 1964), by Joseph Scott MacNutt

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Portrait of Lady Helen Marina Lucy Taylor (née Windsor, 1964), by Joseph Scott MacNutt. Sight Size: 36 inch x 24 inch = 91 cm x 61 cm; Overall Framed Size: 39.25 in x 27.25 in. = 100 cm x 69 cm; Provenance: private collection in Sarasota, Florida, USA 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 King George V. Early life and youth Lady 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. She was educated at Eton End School in Datchet, then at St Mary's School, Wantage,[3] and Gordonstoun. At Gordonstoun, she was one of 20 sixth form girls "in the robustly masculine environment of Gordonstoun," wrote Alan Hamilton. She was called "Melons" in the popular press. 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. 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. Biography of the artist: J. Scott MacNutt (American, b. 1885), MacNutt studied with Woodbury in Ogunquit. He exhibited at the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Artist Guild. He also taught at the Charles Woodbury School in 1934.

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