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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 .
Dec 28, 2023 · By Isaac Bickerstaff, Tatler. Prince George, Duke of Kent, younger brother of King Edward VIII and King George VI became the first member of the Royal Family in more than 450 years to die on active military duty. We revisit his story as Lady Frederick Windsor appears on the cover of Tatler.
In 1942 his father Prince George, then Duke of Kent, died in a wartime flying accident near Caithness in Scotland while on active service. The title Duke of Kent then passed to the present Duke.
Feb 2, 2023 · Prince George, Duke of Kent died in a plane crash on what should've been an uneventful flight from England to Iceland on August 25, 1942, when he was just 39 years old.
Aug 25, 2022 · What happened to Prince George, Duke of Kent? Prince George, Duke of Kent was the younger brother of King George VI, making him the Queen's uncle.
Prince George, Duke of Kent, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, ADC (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.
Aug 13, 2018 · The 39-year-old Prince George had, in his short life, earned a notorious reputation as a cad, a chancer, and a playboy – and his death remains to this day shrouded in controversy due to the destruction of all official documents about the incident.
