Kent, Prince George, Duke of, in full George Edward Alexander Edmund 1902-42
English duke

The son of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck, he was born at Sandringham. He passed out of Dartmouth (1920), but because of delicate health served in the Foreign Office and inspected factories for the Home Office, the first member of the British royal family to work in the Civil Service. In 1934 he was created Duke of Kent, and married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906-68), a first cousin of King George I of Greece and a great-niece of Queen Alexandra. He was appointed Governor-General of Australia (1938) but was prevented from taking up the post by the outbreak of World War II. He was killed on active service, as chief welfare officer of RAF Home Command, when his Sunderland flyingboat on its way to Iceland crashed into a mountain in the north of Scotland. Their three children are Edward, Dukeof Kent, Princess Alexandra and Prince Michael of Kent (1942- ), who married (1978) Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, and whose children are Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor (1979- ) and Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia, or 'Ella', Windsor (1981- ).