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THE FORGOTTEN PRINCE

George, Duke of Kent, was every bit as stylish and even wilder than his more celebrated older brother, Edward VIII. Why is so little attention given to a dapper, mercurial royal figure whose death in a suspicious air crash in 1942 only adds to the mystique?

by ERIC MUSGRAVE

The basic details sound like the script of a slightly far-fetched television miniseries. A British royal prince, with matinee-idol looks and an artistic temperament, falls into bad company and gets hooked on hard drugs. He leads a scandalous sex life with both men and women, and is rumoured to have fathered several illegitimate children. His impeccable dress sense makes him a style icon. He marries a beautiful European princess, and they become both the nation’s favourites and the toast of high society, but the bisexual affairs allegedly continue. Leaving the Royal Navy, which he hates, he becomes the first royalty to work as a civil servant. Having returned to active service in World War II, he is killed before he is 40 years old in a mysterious air crash, all the papers on which have disappeared. Conspiracy theories abound. Was he rubbed out by British intelligence because of his presumed sympathies towards Nazi Germany? Welcome to the astonishing story of George, Duke of Kent, the forgotten prince.

George Edward Alexander Edmund was born on 20 December 1902 at York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, the fourth son of the man who would become George V and his wife, Mary of Teck. Unlike his brothers Edward (born 1894, known as Prince of Wales and Duke of Windsor, later Edward VIII), Albert (born 1895, later George VI) and Henry (or Harry, born 1900, later the Duke of Gloucester) and his only sister, Mary (born 1897, later the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood), George was an Edwardian, not a Victorian: his grandfather, Edward VII, was about to enter the third year of his nine-year reign when George was born. There was certainly something of the new age about him. In a generally colourless family, he was to prove himself different in a number of striking ways.

Academically, he was easily the brightest of the siblings. After private tutoring and prep school, at 13 years old, like Edward and Albert, he was sent to naval college in preparation for a career in the Royal Navy. Although he detested the naval life — not least because he suffered from acute seasickness — he remained in the Royal Navy until 1929. He then briefly held posts at the Foreign Office, before moving to the Home Office, thus becoming the first member of the British royal family to work as a civil servant — he was, incredibly enough, designated to be a factory inspector.

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 Alexandra, Edward & Michael of Kent 

The Queen's private treasures: Her Majesty's personal vanity mirror and a lavish royal crib first used by Queen Victoria are among the intimate family heirlooms going in display at Balmoral Castle

Her Majesty's personal vanity mirror (top centre) is to go on public display for the first time at Balmoral Castle from tomorrow, along with a host of other extraordinarily intimate family treasures - and the Mail has been given an exclusive first look. The Queen's mirror usually sits on the dressing table in the private apartment of her royal residence, where she holidays each year from August through to October, as she has done since she was born. Little is known of its origin, but castle staff say it has been used by successive monarchs and their wives since the Queen's great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert. Also going on display is a lavish crib (left), a Landseer Minton dessert china set (bottom centre) and Queen Victoria's favourite silver Edgar Boehm Highlander statue (right).

Prince Louis (pictured), aged two-and-a-half-years-old, can be heard speaking for the first time as he asks Sir David Attenborough: 'What animal do you like?' in an adorable video shared by Kensington Palace

Prince George says: 'Hello David Attenborough, what animal do you think will become extinct next?' to which Sir David replies: 'Let's hope there won't be any'

Princess Charlotte, who can be seen with her hair scraped back in a ponytail and donning her school uniform, says: 'Hello David Attenborough, I like spiders, do you like spiders too?

Spending secrets of the royals -- I watched it the other night and it truly is obscene

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Princess Madeleine of Sweden shared a picture of her three children Leonore (right), five, Nicolas (centre), four, and Adrienne (left) , one,

and  above   Princess Madeleine, Christopher Paul O'Neill,

Crown Princess Victoria & Prince Daniel of Sweden.

Prince William has revealed that his eldest son Prince George is like a 'caged animal' if he doesn't spend time outside. 

The Duke of Cambridge, 38, speaks about how much his three children, Prince George, seven, Princess Charlotte, five and Prince Louis, two, love nature while filming for upcoming ITV documentary Prince William: A Planet For Us All which airs tomorrow, the Express reported. 

The documentary, which is set to air next month and also features both Sir David Attenborough and Kate Middleton, 38, follows Prince William around the world as he encourages action to fight for the environment. 

'George, particularly, if he’s not outdoors, he’s quite like a caged animal. He needs to get outside.'

In the new documentary, Prince William opens up about developing his own love of nature as a child - as he was allowed to roam freely around the Sandringham estate. 

He adds that all three of his children love to be outdoors and explore around their Anmer Hall home in Norfolk.

On your mark, get set, go! Sophie Wessex dons her trainers as she runs the first 1.5 miles of the London Marathon in support of learning disability charity Mencap

Sophie Wessex, 55, took part in the London Marathon from the Great Windsor Park today and ran with the 312 people running in support of Mencap, a chari

Sophie, 55, joined in on the Mencap team's run in Great Windsor Park alongside Tomas Cardillo-Zallo, one of the 312 people running for the charity today

She said: 'It was an honour to join Tomas, even just for a small part of his triumph today, as he completes the virtual London Marathon in support of Mencap.

'Tomas has shown what people with a learning disability can achieve with the right support. He is an inspiration.'

with a learning disability can achieve with the right support. He is an inspiration.'

Quiet day here ... a Queens Birthday public holiday. Queen Elizabeth II was actually born on 21 April 1926, but public holidays around the Commonwealth vary widely ...
• UK 13 June 2020
• Canada 18 May 2020
• Most Australian states 8 June 2020, except
— QLD 5 October 2020
— WA 28 September 2020

The Queen pictured during her coronavirus speech in her birthday month April 2020.

The Sovereign's birthday was first officially marked in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1748, for King George II. Since then, the date of the king or queen's birthday has been determined throughout the British Empire, and later the Commonwealth of Nations, either by Royal Proclamations issued by the sovereign or viceroy, or by statute laws passed by the local parliament. The date of the celebration today varies as adopted by each country and is generally set around the end of May or start of June, to coincide with a higher probability of fine weather in the Northern Hemisphere for outdoor ceremonies.

Wills would shout and Charles meekly submit

Prince Harry has frankly confessed to having a blazing temper — and as for his elder brother, well, he has proved no Sweet William when roused.

In the years following her 2005 marriage to Prince Charles, William’s new stepmother confided her surprise to her family and to her close friends at this unexpected side to Prince Charming — ‘The boy’s got a temper!’

Camilla had been horrified by the ranting and raving that William could unleash on occasions against her husband — letting rip with no apparent inhibition in her presence.

The rows had been earth-shattering, by her account, with William doing the shouting and Charles submitting meekly.

As she’s described these distressing episodes, William would hold nothing back. He could summon up a wrath to match the importance that he attaches to his challenging role as the future king.

In William’s kingdom, everything had to be perfect — and if his father has failed in some way to live up to his elder son’s elevated view of what being royal entails, the young man would release his fury.

Nor, it seems, does Charles measure up in his elder son’s eyes as a wonderful parent. In 2017, when marking the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death, William proved fiercely uncompromising in his unwillingness to make any conciliatory remark about Charles’s fathering of his motherless sons.

Royal PR aides begged the young Prince to give his father some sort of nod when talking to journalists before the screening of the ITV documentary Diana, Our Mother, but he flatly refused.

William simply wasn’t prepared to pretend that the workaholic, ever-worrying Charles had made good on all the hands-on parenting that he’d promised.

It should be stressed that in recent times — and particularly since the adjustments that the Royal Family had to make in 2019 and 2020 in the wake of their disagreements and the departure of Harry — father and elder son have grown much closer together.

Prince Charles and Prince William now clearly appreciate the need to work closely together for the future of the monarchy — whether that proves to be a brotherly reconciliation next year or some regulated and agreed form of effectively permanent division.

Their father-son spats are said to be episodes in the past.