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  Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark), (13 December 1906 - 27 August 1968) was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the wife of HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary.
Princess Marina was the last foreign-born princess to marry into the British Royal Family; subsequent brides have been from the English or Scottish aristocracy, or commoners.
Princess Marina was born in Athens, Greece on December 13, 1906.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Marina_of_Greece_and_Denmark   (579 words)

  
 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London.
Her mother was HRH The Duchess of Kent (nee Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark), a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia.
Princess Alexandra was Chancellor of Lancaster University since its foundation in 1964, a post she relinquished in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Kent   (905 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Prince Nicholas was the second son of King George I of the Hellenes, the younger brother of Queen Alexandra, the consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
She was the youngest sister of Princess Paul of Yugoslavia, born Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark and of Countess Carl Theodor zu Toerring-Jettenbach, born Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark.
Princess Marina reputedly had a sharp tongue and reportedly once referred to her sisters-in-law, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as "common Scotch girls."
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Princess-Marina-of-Greece-and-Denmark   (410 words)

  
 Mary of Teck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) (26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953), later Queen Mary, was the Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom.
Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and the younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.
Albert Victor was Princess May's second cousin once removed; May was the daughter of Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, whose father, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, was a brother of Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria, who was Albert Victor's grandmother.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_of_Teck   (2076 words)

  
 Princess Michael of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Michael is an author, and has published several books on the royal families of Europe.
Princess Michael of Kent was born on January 15, 1945, at Carlsbad (now in the Czech Republic), the only daughter of the late Freiherr, Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz and the late Freifrau von Reibnitz, Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walpurga Bernadette Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár, Countess Szapár.
Despite this, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent represented The Queen at the independence celebrations in Belize and at the Coronation of King Mswati III of Swaziland.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Michael_of_Kent   (896 words)

  
 MARY OF TECK FACTS AND INFORMATION
Princess Mary of Teck, (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) (26 May, 1867 – 24 March, 1953) later Queen of the United Kingdom was the Queen_consort of George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom.
Princess Victoria Mary of Teck was born on May_26, 1867, at Kensington_Palace, London.
Princess May was chosen as a bride for Albert Victor, due mainly to Queen Victoria's fondness of May, as well as her strong character and sense of duty.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Queen Mary, (née Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary of Teck), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) (26 May, 1867 - 24 March, 1953) was the Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom.
Her mother was Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and the younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.
In 1891, Princess May was engaged to His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, the eldest son of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Mary_of_Teck   (1762 words)

  
 Royal Insight > October 2004 > Mailbox > Page 1
Princess Marina, the late mother of TRH The Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra, was a first cousin of The Duke of Edinburgh
Princess Marina, the late mother of TRH The Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra, was the youngest daughter of Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born the youngest child of Prince Andrew of Greece, the younger brother of Prince Nicholas of Greece.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/page3448.asp   (603 words)

  
 Ancestors of Lord Frederick Windsor
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark: born on 13 Dec 1906 in Athens, Greece; died on 24 Aug 1968 in London
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark: born on 22 Jan 1872 in Athens, Greece; married on 29 Aug 1902 in Tsarskoie-Selo; died on 8 Feb 1938 in Athens, Greece
Princess Alexandra of Denmark: born on 1 Dec 1844 in Copenhagen; died on 20 Nov 1925 in Sandringham, Norfolk
monarchies.50megs.com /lordfrederickancestors.htm   (1414 words)

  
 Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (13 December 1906 - 27 August 1968), the former Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, was the last foreign-born princess to marry into the British Royal Family.
She is the youngest sister of Princess Paul of Yugoslavia, born Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark and of the countess Carl Theodor zu Toerring-Jettenbach, born Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark.
Brought up in relative poverty, she married Prince George, Duke of Kent, the bisexual fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 29 November 1934 at Westminster Abbey, London.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/princess_marina_of_greece_and_denmark   (408 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Angus Ogilvy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On 24 April 1963, Ogilvy married HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent at Westminster Abbey in London.
Princess Alexandra was a granddaughter of King George V and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her father was HRH The Prince George, Duke of Kent and HRH Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
www.nowtryus.com /article:Angus_Ogilvy   (765 words)

  
 Articles - Prince Andrew of Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (January 20, 1882 - December 3, 1944), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova (1851-1926) of Russia.
Princess Alice was a daughter of His Serene Highness, Prince and Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Louis of Battenberg.
She suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized in Switzerland, emerged and founded (in 1949) the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, an order of nuns tending the poor and sick on the island of Tinos in Greece.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Prince_Andrew_of_Greece   (386 words)

  
 Greek Royal Family
George was previously Prince Wilhelm of Denmark, he was elected King of the Hellenes on 5 June 1863 and accepted the crown on 31 October 1863.
Princess Katherine was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in Great Britain on 9 September 1947 by King George VI and is known as Lady Katherine Brandram
Nancy is the mother of William Leeds (by her second husband William Bateman Leeds), husband of Princess Xenia of Russia.
www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/Greek_Royal_Family.htm   (1103 words)

  
 George V of the United Kingdom Online Research :: Information about George V of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His mother was Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (later Alexandra of Denmark, the eldest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark.
Although a female-line great granddaughter of King George III of the United Kingdom, Queen Mary was the daughter of the Duke of Teck, a morganatic section of the Royal House of Württemberg.
In 1922, George sent a Royal Navy ship to rescue his cousins, Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg and their children, including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who would later marry George's granddaughter, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
in-northcarolina.com /search/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom.html   (2248 words)

  
 The Ruling House of Greece, 1939-1945
Succeeded as King on the abdication of his father in 1922 and left Greece in 1924, when a republic was established.
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, Duke of Sparta (1901-)
Yriny, Princess Aimone of Savoy, Duchess of Spoleto, Duchess of Aosta, Queen of Croatia (1904-)
gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/houses/greece.html   (214 words)

  
 Re: REMEMBERING WHO  WE ARE , BY REMEMBERING WHO WE WERE!  ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Prior to her succession, she held the titles of HRH Princess Elizabeth of York (1926-36), HRH The Princess Elizabeth (1936-47), and HRH The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (1947-52).
He is the elder brother of Princess Alexandra, the Honourable Lady Ogilvy Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel Ogilvy, formerly Windsor), is a member of the British Royal Family.
Princess Marina was the daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia.
www.sangraal.com /Discussion/000002ce.htm   (2647 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
Princess Irene (Yreny) of Greece and Denmark *1942
Princess Marie of Greece (1876-1940) with her second spouse the Greek Pericles Joannides
(dghtr of Prince Andrea of Greece and Denmark and Alice, Pss of Battenberg/Mountbatten)
worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/royal33.htm   (351 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His mother was Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra, the youngest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark.
King George's paternal grandfather was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; the King and his children bore the titles Prince and Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke and Duchess of Saxony.
In contrast, he was fond of his second eldest son, Prince Albert and doted on his eldest granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth; he nicknamed her "Lilibet", and she affectionally called him "Grandpa England".
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom   (1893 words)

  
 Re: British Princess To Marry Practicing Sikh
She is also closely related to the royal houses of Denmark, Greece, and Russia via her father's mother, the late Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent.
Her mother (sometimes known as "Princess Pushy" for her want of free things) is a Roman Catholic and her father an Anglican.
Princess Michael recently made international headlines because she allegedly told a table ofnoisy prominent fls at a New York society restaurant to "go back to the colonies".
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 Princess Marina of Greece, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968)
Princess Marina of Greece, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968)
Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel (The Hon.
Princess of Greece and Denmark, with the style of Her Royal Highness (H.R.H. Princess Marina of Greece)
www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1906marK.htm   (232 words)

  
 Princess Alexandra of Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her father was HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George V of the United KingdomKing George V and Mary of TeckQueen Mary.
As a granddaughter of the British monarch, she was styled as a British princess with the prefix, HRH''Her Royal Highness''/.
On 24 April 1963, she married The Honourable Angus OgilvyAngus James Bruce Ogilvy (1928-2004), the second son of the 12th Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke, at Westminster Abbey/.
www.infothis.com /find/Princess_Alexandra_of_Kent   (804 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10072
Marina von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark was the daughter of Nicholaos von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince of Greece and Denmark and Elena Vladimirovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia.
Charles Haakon VII von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, King of Norway was the son of Frederik VIII von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, King of Denmark and Louise Josephine Eugènie Bernadotte, Princess of Sweden.
He married Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom, daughter of Edward VII Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, King of the United Kingdom and Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Denmark, on 22 July 1896 at Buckingham Palace, St. James's, London, England.
www.thepeerage.com /p10072.htm   (2459 words)

  
 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His father was HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary.
His mother was HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, (nee Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark), the daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia.
His other interests include serving as the president of the Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, a position he succeeded from his late mother, HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.
pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Prince_Edward,_Duke_of_Kent   (1049 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
He was born at Marlborough House in London, the second son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
After becoming engaged to marry his second cousin once removed, HSH Princess Victoria May ("Princess Mary") of Teck (26 May 1867-24 March 1953), the Duke of Clarence died suddenly leaving Prince George directly in line for the throne.
Although a female-line great granddaughter of King George III, Queen Mary was the daughter of the Duke of Teck, a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Württemberg.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /George_V   (1582 words)

  
 Princess Alexandra of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel Ogilvy, née Windsor), styled HRH Princess Alexandra, is a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of King George V.
Princess Alexandra has the distinction of being the first British princess to have attended an ordinary school, near Ascot.
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Mrs Angus Ogilvy, GCVO (24 April 1963-1989)
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Princess_Alexandra_of_Kent   (943 words)

  
 Nitzes host Greek princess - The Washington Times: Entertainment - May 23, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Princess Marina of Greece was the guest of honor at a reception hosted by Ann and Bill Nitze at their Georgetown home Thursday night.
Known professionally by her maiden name, Marina Karella, she has shown her work in more than 30 solo exhibitions throughout the world and has designed sets for film and stage.
Her husband, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, is a noted historian and the cousin of King Constantine II of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip.
washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050522-110119-4301r.htm   (179 words)

  
 Angus Ogilvy biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He is the younger son of David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester.
He became a peripheral member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent, only daughter of HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
The wedding took place on 24 April 1963 at Westminster Abbey in London, and was attended by many members of the Royal Family.
angus-ogilvy.biography.ms   (179 words)

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