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Princess Marina was born in Athens, the third daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia. 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. One of her paternal uncles was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Her mother was a granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. 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 fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 29 November 1934 at Westminster Abbeyexoskeleton formed by flying buttresses. The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster Westminster Abbey , a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. It is located in, LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri. Whereas his sister, Mary, Princess Royal, and two of his elder brothers, the Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) and Prince Henry, Duke of GloucesterPrince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Henry William Frederick Albert Windsor ( March 31 1900 June 10 1974), was the third son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, the brother of Kings Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) and George VI, and the married offspring of the EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England and ScottishScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p aristocracy, the Duke of Kent reverted to the pre-World War I practice among British princes of selecting a bride from a continental royal family.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent had three children: the current Duke of KentThis article is about the present Duke of Kent. For Queen Victoria's father, see Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Edward George Nicholas Patrick Windsor), styled HRH The Duke of Kent (born 9 October, Princess Alexandra, the Honourable Lady Ogilvy, and Prince Michael of Kent. Her husband died on 25 August 1942 in an aeroplane crash at Eagles Rock, near Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland while on active service with the Royal Air Force. After her husband's death, the Duchess of Kent continued to be active member of the British Royal Family, carrying out a wide-range of royal and official engagements. She was the longtime president of the Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club .
Just before the current Duke of Kent's wedding in June 1961, she announced that she wished to be known as "HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent" instead of "HRH The Dowager Duchess of Kent." Upon her marriage in 1934, she became "HRH The Princess George, Duchess of Kent, Countess of St. Andrews, and Baroness Downpatrick." However, she remained a princess of Greece and Denmark in her own right. Following her elder son's wedding, she simply reverted to her own title.
She died of a brain tumor at Kensington Palace on 27 August, 1968.
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."
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