In this piece, we take a brief look at
The Duke and The Duchess of Kent. Edward George Nicholas Paul
Patrick was born in 1935, the first born of Prince George, and
Princess Marina, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece; this makes
The Duke first cousin to both The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.
The Duke of Kent pictured here in 2009. His siblings are Prince
Michael of Kent, and Princess…
The Duke of Kent, President of the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), will embark on a
two-day visit to six Welsh Lifeboat stations and the Holyhead
Coastguard Coordination Centre Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th October.
Later this week, he will celebrate his 80th…
Royal Marines from Plymouth received a
special royal visitor while on exercise in the Californian Desert,
in the form of Prince Michael of Kent. The Marines of 42 Commando
were on Exercise Black Alligator when the prince visited to witness
first hand the challenging training…
On Tuesday, Princess Alexandra paid a
visit to the famous Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest. Affectionately
known as ‘Queen Vic’, she opened the building’s newest expansion –
the Simco Wing, added in time for the Queen Vic’s 175th
anniversary. Princess Alexandra pictured here 11th September 2014.
The Simco Wing cost £1.2 million to construct, and is named after
the former general secretary…
Tomorrow, joined by veterans who served
in the Second World War, Prince Michael of Kent will visit the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Dunkirk Memorial to mark the
75th anniversary of the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk. In 1940,
Allied forces in France who were fighting…
The Duke of Kent – a cousin of The Queen
– has been admitted to hospital in Scotland after suffering a hip
injury, Buckingham Palace said today. The injury, thought to have
been sustained while staying at The Queen’s highland residence
Balmoral, is suspected to have…
On February 14, 2015 The Duke of Kent
received the Dresden Peace Prize for his work spanning many decades
in the reconciliation of Great Britain and Germany. This comes of
the 70th anniversary of British and American air raids on Dresden.
[getty src=”463351456″ width=”594″ height=”393″] Each year the
Dresden Prize is awarded to one deserving individual. Friend of
Dresden Deutschland…
Katharine Kent will be an unfamiliar name
to many, but in Royal circles she became well-known, causing
controversy with her conversion to Catholicism in 1994. Born
Katharine Worsley on February 22nd 1933, her upbringing was that of
a ‘commoner’ in the Yorkshire…
The Duke of Kent is to receive the
Dresden Prize on the 14th February 2015 for his work towards the
reconciliation of Great Britain and Germany after the Second
World War. The prize, which will be awarded in Dresden’s Semper
Opera, recognises the prevention of conflict…
The first of these duties was one that
had the Duke clearly in his element as he officially named one of
the two rowing boats recently bought by Tees Rowing Club. In his
youth, The Duke of Kent was an Eton rower and was more than
comfortable in pouring champagne over the nose of the 'Duke of Kent
150', so named in recognition of the club celebrating its 150th
anniversary. The Duke spent…
