Born in 2007 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Albert was the first of three sons born to Lord Nicholas and Paola Frankopan, a member of the Croatian and Italian nobility. He made history within the first weeks of his life as the first royal baby to be baptised Catholic since 1688, and during his childhood, he made a handful of public appearances. He was at King Charles\u2019s 60th birthday lunch in 2008 and the wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor in 2019 and memorably on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the Trooping the Colour that same year, when he sported a sling for a broken arm. <\/p>\n
Rather than growing up in Britain, Albert was raised in Rome with his two younger brothers, Leopold, 16, and Louis, 11, meaning he was largely removed from public life in the UK until he turned 18 this September. He would have been 37th in line for the throne, were it not for his father, Lord Nicholas, converting to Catholicism in 2001, which forced him to renounce his position in the line of succession and, therefore, Albert\u2019s too. <\/p>\n
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Competition: Another of Britain\u2019s most eligible men, Kit Price (Instagram\/@kit.price)<\/p>\n
Attention around Albert has been steadily increasing in the last month. He attended the funeral of his grandmother, Katherine, Duchess of Kent, where he was reportedly close to William, Kate and Charles at Westminster Cathedral, hinting at a good relationship between him and the senior royals. And according to Tatler, Albert is set to rub shoulders at the annual debutante and fashion ball Le Bal in Paris later this month, where he\u2019ll be considered the \u201ccatch of the season\u201d. <\/p>\n
If he goes on to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps to read Theology at Oxford, it could cause quite a stir among single students, much like William\u2019s time spent studying at St Andrews, during which the university saw a 44 per cent increase in applications, largely from young women. But Gen Z socialites might want to take pause before racing after Britain\u2019s most eligible bachelor. <\/p>\n
Marrying into the royal family is, as many have found out to their peril, not always the fairytale it\u2019s cracked up to be. The Duchess of Sussex described her brief time living in a world of warring palaces run by courtiers as \u201calmost unsurvivable\u201d, and this week, Peep Show actor Sophie Winkleman<\/a>, who married King Charles\u2019s second cousin Lord Frederick Windsor in 2009, echoed that life as a working royal is \u201ctotal hell\u201d and a \u201cform of torture\u201d. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Frederick Windsor and \u2018Peep Show\u2019 actor Sophie Winkleman at their wedding at Hampton Court Palace in 2009 (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Frederick](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-90639012.jpeg\")
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