LWong was named the Society’s Bible of the Most Eligible Men and Women in Britain this year Tatler The Little Black Book has just been released. And at the top of the 2025 list is 18-year-old Albert Windsor, who, at first glance, might seem like a surprising choice.
But Windsor—as you may have already guessed from the last name—is seriously well connected. The nobleman General Z is King Charles’ cousin and Prince Edward’s grandson, the Duke of Kent, who will one day inherit his title.
Born in 2007 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Albert was the first of three sons of Lord Nicholas and Paula Frankopan, a member of the Croatian and Italian nobility. In her first weeks of life, she made history as the first royal baby to be baptized as a Catholic since 1688, and made numerous public appearances during her childhood. He was at King Charles’ 60th birthday lunch in 2008 and Lady Gabriella Windsor’s wedding in 2019, and memorably on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the Trooping the Color that same year, when he wore a brace for a broken arm.
Instead of growing up in Britain, Albert grew up in Rome with his two younger brothers, Leopold, 16, and Louis, 11, meaning he was largely excluded from public life in the UK until he turned 18 this September. If his father, Lord Nicholas, had converted to Catholicism in 2001, he would have been 37th in line to the throne, forcing him to relinquish his position in the line of succession and thus Albert.
Attention surrounding Albert has steadily increased over the past month. He attended the funeral of his grandmother Catherine, Duchess of Kent, where he was reportedly close to William, Kate and Charles at Westminster Cathedral, hinting at the good relationship between him and the royal family. And according to Tatler, Albert is set to attend the annual Evelyn and Fashion Ball in Paris later this month, where he is seen as “capturing the season”.
If he follows in his father’s footsteps and reads theology at Oxford, he could cause a stir among single students, just as he did when William was at St Andrews, during which the university saw a 44 per cent increase in applications, mainly from young women. But Gen Z socialites might want to pause before racing after Britain’s most eligible bachelor.
Marrying into the royal family, as many have come to realize, is not always the myth. The Duchess of Sussex described her short life in a world of hostile palaces run by courtiers as “almost unsurvivable” and this week, Peep Show Actress Sophie Winkleman, who married King Charles’ second cousin Lord Frederick Windsor in 2009, reiterated that life as a royal is “absolute hell” and a “form of torture”.
he said The Times: “The more I get to know the royal family, the more I realize that their lives are hell and that level of unwanted fame is a form of torture.”
“None of them continued,” he continued pop idol Or something to become famous, to have such a blinding light on your face from the moment you are born, not knowing who you can trust, not knowing if someone is going to betray you or not, people constantly writing lies about you, it’s cruel. I feel for all of them. “I don’t think it’s healthy to live with so much scrutiny and pressure from a distance, but they have no choice.”
Of course, Albert is much lower than this kind of pressure. But he moves in the same circles, listed alongside the likes of the Duke of Marlborough’s daughter, Lady Araminta Spencer-Churchill, and Bhutanese prince Jigme Ugin Wangchak, who studied his A-levels at Marlborough. You get the vibe.
So, remember, you’re not just dating Albert, you’re dating a royal story.
