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Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and
The aircraft and crew were on a VIP transport mission to RAF Reykjavik, specifically to fly Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Iceland. [7] The aircraft took off from a seaplane base at RAF Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth at 1305 GMT on Sunday 25 August 1942 in fog, which persisted.
In 1934, Prince George (1902–1942), the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, was created Duke of Kent, Earl of St Andrews and Baron Downpatrick. Prince George had three children before his death in 1942: Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra, and Prince Michael. Prince Edward, upon his father's death, succeeded to his ...
Died: Prince George, Duke of Kent, 39, British royal (plane crash) August 26, 1942 (Wednesday) ... 1942 Suō-nada Typhoon, a violence 935 to 942 hectopascal level, ...
25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness, Scotland. 30 August–2 September – World War II: At the Battle of Alam el Halfa in Egypt , General Montgomery leads the Eighth Army to victory over Field Marshal Rommel 's Afrika Korps .
Events from the year 1942 in Scotland. Incumbents ... Prince George, Duke of Kent, ... (died 1963) 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter; 2 February – Roger Hynd ...
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The Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund was created Duke of Kent by his father George V in 1934, some weeks in advance of his wedding to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. She was a first cousin of the future royal consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. George died in 1942, leaving his peerage titles to his six-year-old son, Prince Edward.