She is a granddaughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, so she is consequently a great-great-granddaughter of George V and Queen Mary; she is a second cousin once removed of Charles III.

Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor was born on 24 August 1995 at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge.

[16] Twenty percent of the proceeds from her shoe collection were donated to War Child, a charity that aids children in conflict areas.

[18][19][20] In 2020, Lady Amelia began contributing to a new environmental platform called Talia Collective, writing about eco-travel and lifestyle.

[21] Lady Amelia's father, the Earl of St Andrews, lost his succession rights to the British throne according to the Act of Settlement 1701 as a consequence of marrying a Catholic.

Although her grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, had converted to Catholicism in 1994, it did not remove her grandfather, Prince Edward, from the line of succession as the duchess was Anglican at the time of their wedding in 1961 and the Act of Settlement 1701 did not take into consideration a person married to someone in the line of succession converting to Catholicism.

[23] After graduating from St Mary's School, Ascot,[24] Lady Amelia spent a gap year in India and Thailand[25] before studying French and Italian at the University of Edinburgh.