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The Duchess of Kent by Winterhalter, 1857. When the Queen's first child, the Princess Royal, was born, the Duchess of Kent unexpectedly found herself welcomed back into Victoria's inner circle. It is likely that this came about as a result of the dismissal of Baroness Lehzen at the behest of Victoria's husband (and the Duchess's nephew), Prince ...
Princess Victoria Mary of Teck ... annuity of £5,000 and received about £4,000 a year from her mother, the Duchess of ... her son George, Duke of Kent, ...
Duchess of Kent is the principal courtesy title used by the wife of the Duke of Kent. There have been four titles referring to Kent since the 18th century. The current duchess is Katharine, the wife of Prince Edward. He inherited the dukedom on 25 August 1942 upon the death of his father, Prince George, the fourth son of George V.
The two became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Two years later, in 2013, the Cambridges welcomed their first child, Prince George of Cambridge, followed by Princess Charlotte in 2015 and Prince ...
The Princess’s mother, Marina, Duchess of Kent, with her three children, Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra, and, in his mother’s lap, Prince Michael, in 1943. Hulton Deutsch - Getty Images
By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. [24]
Charlotte and George's fourth son, Prince Edward, was born on November 2, 1767. He served in the British army. In 1818, he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widow. Her first ...
Once the coffin was placed at Westminster Hall at 3:00 pm, royal dukes, Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, her grandsons the Earl of Harewood and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, and the nobility stood on one side of the catafalque, while the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of ...