The TRAGIC life of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
  • The tragic life of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
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    british royal family
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  • @margaretmcgill526
    @margaretmcgill526 7 месяцев назад +66

    Thank you so much for this. My mother, born in 1920, thought Princess Marina was the most elegant woman in the world. Fascinating and a job well done!

    • @carolwaugh5466
      @carolwaugh5466 7 месяцев назад +11

      My mother thought so too. Princess Marina was very popular. I believe there was a color named for her, Marina Green. My mother had a suit in that color, which I vaguely remember.

  • @vickihatley4041
    @vickihatley4041 5 месяцев назад +3

    My Mom was born in 1920 her & Marina looked so much alike it was very striking it was uncanny i was very lucky 2 have such amazing beautiful women as my Mother & the Princess had a special place in our history

  • @bimblaq
    @bimblaq 7 месяцев назад +23

    She was indeed the most beautiful princess

  • @miramira2723
    @miramira2723 7 месяцев назад +17

    There's a hospital in my country that was named after her Hospital Duchesses of Kent, Sandakan Sabah, Malaysia..Princess Marina officiated the hospital in 1952

  • @voyaristika5673
    @voyaristika5673 7 месяцев назад +16

    Thank you. I didn't know her story. She sounds interesting, like there's a lot to know about her, depth. I'm glad she died peacefully.

    • @ukmary1968
      @ukmary1968 Месяц назад

      She died from brain cancer. Not peacefully at all

  • @eileenbass952
    @eileenbass952 7 месяцев назад +32

    A very elegant lady.

  • @ShinbiBelldandy
    @ShinbiBelldandy 7 месяцев назад +34

    The irony of Princess Marina feeling above the Duchesses York & Gloucester when she herself lived in poverty at times. And her sisters in law both lived to be over 100. Not bad for common Scotch girls.

    • @artn2950
      @artn2950 7 месяцев назад +14

      She had Danish and Russian royal blood... Christian IX of Denmark and Czar Alexander III

    • @williamegler8771
      @williamegler8771 7 месяцев назад +17

      A princess by birth outranks the daughters of low-level Scottish peers regardless of material wealth.

    • @chocciechocchoc1
      @chocciechocchoc1 7 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@williamegler8771but they rank above her due them marrying more senior brothers

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@williamegler8771they weren't low level they were very wealthy landowners. Marina never lived in poverty. On her marriage to Prince George who was bi-sexual and had an affair with Noel Coward she brought with her a large quantity of Romanov jewels and tiaras as her Dowry.

    • @williamegler8771
      @williamegler8771 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@misscoutts6193 They were Gentry they were not Noble or Royal so compared to a princess they are low level. They are just wealthy commoners.

  • @artn2950
    @artn2950 7 месяцев назад +30

    Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth visited quietly at Coppins. Philip and Marina were cousins through their fathers

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +3

      Why visit quietly?

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@misscoutts6193 Not everything the Royals do is a public event - they were visiting family.

  • @annglaister
    @annglaister 5 месяцев назад +7

    My aunty Doris was a royal dress maker and she made the wedding dress for princess Marina ❤❤

  • @sandraseagramannovazzi3920
    @sandraseagramannovazzi3920 7 месяцев назад +44

    The most beautiful of any woman of the House of Windsor

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@sandraseagramannovazzi3920 because she wasn't House of Windsor; she was Romanov and Glucksburg.

    • @vickihatley4041
      @vickihatley4041 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well Princess Margaret was very beautiful indeed especially when she was younger her & Elizabeth Taylor looked amazingly alike
      U till her fast life style took it all away I feel very sad 4 her & that if only her & Peter Townsend weren't allowed 2 marry her life may have
      Been a much happier 1
      God Bless Princess Margaret
      her sister Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary Now we must protect our Royal Family from liars & sycophrents
      That r trying 2 hurt possibly trying to destroy our monarchy God Save King Charles
      & Princess Catherine pray for their well being under going these treatments

  • @williamhenry9609
    @williamhenry9609 7 месяцев назад +60

    When she was widowed she was given an apartment in Kensington Palace. Her expenses were borne by the RF. She had 11 staff. Left a hoard of valuable jewels to her family. So she wasn't poor what you make her out to be.

    • @artn2950
      @artn2950 7 месяцев назад +10

      She lived at Coppins for many years and had to sell jewelry

    • @michelles2299
      @michelles2299 7 месяцев назад +13

      @@artn2950 some people even don't own diamonds.... Fancy that!

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +20

      ​@@artn2950Coppins was the country estate she owned through her marriage to Prince George; and upon his marriage, she moved out and gave it to her son and daughter in law, Duke and Duchess of Kent. She was invariably referred to as the poor widow but her mother was a Romanov grand duchess Elena. They brought plenty of jewels out of Russia.

    • @harryb7149
      @harryb7149 7 месяцев назад +1

      I have no sympathy for Marina. Not only did she arrogantly call others in the royal family "common Scotch girls", but she seemed happy to be a royal parasite after the death of her husband. A waste of the taxpayer;s money, to be certain. Marina was a prime example of a spoiled royal princess. Her life was NOT miserable nor poverty stricken.

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@artn2950 Coppins was left to Prince Edward by George V's unmarried sister, Princess Toria. The problem with properties is that they can be quite expensive to run

  • @williamofhanover
    @williamofhanover 6 месяцев назад +4

    Princess Marina has always been one of my most favorite royals simply because Marina is one of my favorite names

  • @randywatts6969
    @randywatts6969 7 месяцев назад +16

    A bittersweet life she had, to be sure.

  • @LauraPerez-g3p
    @LauraPerez-g3p 7 месяцев назад +32

    Marina's engagement ring is now owned by actress Sophie Winkleman, daughter-in-law of her youngest son Prince Michael

    • @artn2950
      @artn2950 7 месяцев назад

      S

    • @artn2950
      @artn2950 7 месяцев назад +7

      Sofie is very fortunate indeed!!!!

    • @ukmary1968
      @ukmary1968 Месяц назад

      It seems as if Prince Michael was her favorite

  • @alanbeattie1470
    @alanbeattie1470 7 месяцев назад +19

    Marina, feeling above the in-laws? Dare say she had common-sense, except for her use of the word SCOTCH...

  • @artn2950
    @artn2950 7 месяцев назад +17

    Wow did not know how many languages she could speak!!!

  • @georgeapplegatejnr
    @georgeapplegatejnr 7 месяцев назад +10

    Most intersting person supreme beautiful woman of her age

  • @alanbeattie1470
    @alanbeattie1470 7 месяцев назад +20

    England is not an independent but part of one: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and - like it or loath it or do the hokey kokey - Northern Ireland.

  • @jennyvanniekerk9600
    @jennyvanniekerk9600 7 месяцев назад +14

    So what was so tragic - draped in jewals. RIDICULOUS

  • @johannesbols57
    @johannesbols57 7 месяцев назад +25

    Sensationalism for clicks. She didn't have a tragic life. Cut the bullshit.

    • @janetaldrich7747
      @janetaldrich7747 6 месяцев назад +3

      She married Prince George, Duke of Kent, right? Not exactly a bed of roses.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@janetaldrich7747 arranged marriage. Prince George was well known to be bi-sexual. Marina would be considered 'on the shelf' in those days. If you look closely at photographs she is often turned to the right to conceal Bell's Palsy.

  • @AshleyMartin-f3x
    @AshleyMartin-f3x 7 месяцев назад +8

    Beautiful

  • @jilltagmorris
    @jilltagmorris 7 месяцев назад +13

    Thank you for this

  • @NIckyFromDunedin
    @NIckyFromDunedin 5 месяцев назад +2

    poor little Prince Micheal never knew his dad

  • @lindaedward3169
    @lindaedward3169 6 месяцев назад +10

    Some rather cringe worthy mispronunciation .. Maugham ..being one 😮

  • @user-qr9uh1fd8g
    @user-qr9uh1fd8g 7 месяцев назад +15

    My whole life has been sad.

  • @lucylocket420
    @lucylocket420 6 месяцев назад +2

    My goodness this was a ruthlessly honest story. Seems she was better off a widow in the end x

  • @karensnowden962
    @karensnowden962 6 месяцев назад +2

    Tragic LIFE. WHAT a Crock. Get a REAL STORY. LIFE of LUXURY like ALL of them.

  • @alanbeattie1470
    @alanbeattie1470 7 месяцев назад +9

    Children of aristos and servants being educated together? Hott Dogg and a Whoop Poodle Diddle...

  • @susanlynch1966
    @susanlynch1966 6 месяцев назад +8

    T_sar?!?! It's pronounced sar with a silent. AI really drives me mad.

  • @twistoffate4791
    @twistoffate4791 6 месяцев назад +2

    I think you need more related photographs. They are most certainly out there.

  • @michelles2299
    @michelles2299 7 месяцев назад +25

    Tragic? At least she didn't have to worry about being able to afford food and paying her bills

    • @zzzbbbooo
      @zzzbbbooo 7 месяцев назад +8

      She did actually. She and her children had to live quite frugally by royal standards (genteel poverty) after her husband's death.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +4

      This is the narrative soundtrack. She owned a country estate in Kent and owned many jewels & tiaras and being given more jewels by her mother-in-law, Queen Mary; living in Kensington Palace after her son took over the family home "Coppins".

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@misscoutts6193 You're right. The problem is that she had two sons' futures that she needed to provide for (the Greek system was that jewels were passed to sons for their future wives, not to daughters, who were expected to be provided for by their husband's wealth.) The estate probably provided an income as well as an insurance policy - and gifts were not consikdered saleable items back then - even when they came from ordinary sources...! I had that argument with my parents more than once when I was a teenager growing up - and we were just an ordinary working class family...!!

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@paulharvey9149 the sons would have had Trust funds set up at birth. It's just a fiction that these people are impoverished.

  • @Pulchria24
    @Pulchria24 7 месяцев назад +4

    Oh dear. It's ann-um [first syllable rhymes with 'fan'], NOT an-um -[first syllable rhyming with 'pain']

  • @Buddy869-z9x
    @Buddy869-z9x Месяц назад +1

    “Cousin Marina” was portrayed in The Crown as something of a pain in the arse 😝

  • @ukmary1968
    @ukmary1968 Месяц назад

    I really think that Queen Mary cared for Princess Marina

  • @ladyalaina42
    @ladyalaina42 7 месяцев назад +5

    Must have been awful with a permiscuous bisexial husband. Sad. At least he managed to father children, which mist have been a comfort. Yet his death left her improviased. She seemed to have a good life of service nevertheless.

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 6 месяцев назад +1

      @ladyalaina42 He was bisexual though - not gay, which was illegal. There's no reason to suppose he had extra-marital affairs all the time - that's just media speculation!

    • @lovepainting
      @lovepainting 6 месяцев назад

      @@paulharvey9149

  • @markmh835
    @markmh835 7 месяцев назад +11

    Her looking down on the House of Windsor is the height of irony and not very becoming of this woman.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +3

      At the time of her arranged marriage she was thirty four being considered as 'on the shelf' in the parlance of the times. She also had Bell's Palsy.

    • @peachygal4153
      @peachygal4153 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@misscoutts6193 She was born in 1906 and married in 1934.Do the math

    • @peachygal4153
      @peachygal4153 7 месяцев назад +2

      Lol she was a princess and Elizabeth Boyles Lyon, later Duchess of York, then Queen consort to George VI and then the queen mother was a Scottish noblewoman. That is why Marina looked down her nose. In her mind her children were full royals whereas Queen Elizabeth only half.

    • @peachygal4153
      @peachygal4153 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@misscoutts6193 Yes, the marriage was arranged to hide the fact the Duke of Kent was bisexual, to make him respectable. Don't forget, the marriage she had really wanted did not come off because her family could not give a dowry. In those days, in that class especially. a woman no matter how old she was, lived at home and under her father's rules until marriage. The BRF saw her as a prize since she would accept their wayward son having no dowry. I am sure she was grateful to be married to have her own home and children. Don't forget too, rumors claim marriage did not make him any less promiscuous and allegedly why maybe his plane crash was not an accident, because of the embarrassment he caused the BRF.

    • @paulharvey9149
      @paulharvey9149 6 месяцев назад +5

      Especially when you consider the instability of the Greek Royal House - and the fate of the Russian one, that had already occurred by then. Had she not married a foreign prince, she'd very probably have become a princess in the past tense.

  • @jennyleishman9617
    @jennyleishman9617 7 месяцев назад +17

    King George the V not 5…get it right

    • @markmh835
      @markmh835 7 месяцев назад +4

      You can't expect AI computer narrators to "get it right." All we can do is quit watching, supporting, liking and subscribing to such channels.

    • @ceejay3054
      @ceejay3054 6 месяцев назад +2

      AI sucks but won't go away

  • @donsarde
    @donsarde 5 месяцев назад +1

    GEORGE V, fifth actually.

  • @Pulchria24
    @Pulchria24 7 месяцев назад +3

    Some very odd pronunciation- for example, CHECK how to pronounce 'Maugham'. Also odd usages- George V is vocalised as 'George the fifth', not 'George the five'

  • @alanbeattie1470
    @alanbeattie1470 7 месяцев назад +5

    How was it that ambulances got broken legs?

  • @FranceDuseberg-yo8ej
    @FranceDuseberg-yo8ej 5 месяцев назад +2

    George the FIFTH.

  • @AngelaMacdonald-b8s
    @AngelaMacdonald-b8s 7 месяцев назад +20

    Sorry, not sure why you think she had a 'tragic' life 😮 ?

  • @christinelivesey9077
    @christinelivesey9077 5 месяцев назад +2

    King George the five?

  • @ukmary1968
    @ukmary1968 Месяц назад

    I think her granddaughter, Lady Gabriella, is the blonde version

  • @gentiumblue5211
    @gentiumblue5211 Месяц назад

    Princess Alice was the daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, which is not minor aristocracy.

  • @j.j.blokdijk8727
    @j.j.blokdijk8727 6 месяцев назад +2

    Annum=not the english a, in its pronouciation.

  • @susanyates4233
    @susanyates4233 6 месяцев назад +5

    Tsar is pronounced Zar. Maughan is pronounced morn. Annum is pronounced like the beginning of Ann. Please check your pronunciation.

    • @ceejay3054
      @ceejay3054 6 месяцев назад +1

      It's AI. It will always suck at pronunciation

    • @stunned.6707
      @stunned.6707 6 месяцев назад +1

      Prince George of Kent was a wastrel at best. He was lucky that Marina agreed to marry him. She sorted him out.

  • @nancymabie5398
    @nancymabie5398 6 месяцев назад +2

    Tragic?

  • @amberdunham149
    @amberdunham149 3 месяца назад

    Still wonder what was quite wrong with her face I had Bell's palsy as a child and wonder

  • @ukmary1968
    @ukmary1968 Месяц назад

    I’m just confused. Why would they be bathing babies at a daycare?

  • @tri5ia
    @tri5ia 6 месяцев назад +1

    Princess Marina was the most beautiful woman to marry into the British Royal Family. Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the future Queen Alexandra, was a very close second IMO.

  • @hninzilwin3288
    @hninzilwin3288 6 месяцев назад +3

    Her lipline is lopsided . Her daughter Orincess Alexandra her daughter also has that lopsided smile

  • @cinderbella9391
    @cinderbella9391 5 месяцев назад

    I am her direct decwndant

  • @dympnamcintyre9381
    @dympnamcintyre9381 2 месяца назад

    What a load of English bs