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Princess Alexandra
HRH Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel of Kent, the Hon Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVO, is a first cousin of the Queen. She was born on Christmas Day, , at 3 Belgrave Square, London, the second child and only daughter of Prince George of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
A working member of the Royal Family, Princess Alexandra is patron or president of over organisations, including as joint president with the Duke of Gloucester of Cancer Research UK. She also supported Queen Elizabeth II in her duties, attending ceremonial occasions alongside other members of the Royal Family.
In April , Princess Alexandra married Rt Hon Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, a businessman and the second son of the 12th Earl of Airlie. Their wedding was broadcast on television and watched by an estimated audience of million. Sir Angus declined the Queen’s offer to be made an earl upon marriage, so their two children, James and Marina, bear no titles.
Sir Angus died in , and Princess Alexandra resides at Thatched House Lodge, Richmond, Surrey. Her office is at Buckingham Palace.
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Honours
Princess Alexandra holds many honorary military appointments at home and abroad, several honorary academic degrees and several foreign and Crown honours including Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO), Royal Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) and the Canadian Forces’ Decoration (CD).
Post nominal order - KG, GCVO, CD
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Princess Alexandra (born )
British princess (born )
Princess Alexandra (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December ) is a member of the British royal family. The only daughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, she is a granddaughter of George V, niece of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. Alexandra's mother was also a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Elizabeth II, making her both a second cousin and first cousin once removed to Charles III. Her official title is Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.
Princess Alexandra was married to businessman Sir Angus Ogilvy from until his death in At the time of her birth, she was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne; as of , she is 58th.
Early life
Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December at 3 Belgrave Square, London. Her parents were Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. She was named after her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra; her grandmother, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia; and both of her maternal aunts, Countess Elizabeth of Törring-Jettenbach and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia. She received the name Christabel because she was born on Christmas Day, like her aunt Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Her birth was the last to have the tradition of having the Home Secretary present to verify the birth of potential heirs to the throne.John Simon was present and was the last one to do so.
As a male-line granddaughter of the British monarch, she was styled as a British princess with the prefix Her Royal Highness. At the time of her birth she was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her cousins Eliz In one of the earliest photos of Princess Alexandra, she is held by a nanny as her mother Princess Marina holds Prince Edward's hand. The family lived in Belgrave Square, London. This picture shows a two-year-old Princess Alexandra pictured on the beach at St Margarets Bay in Kent. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The young royal siblings Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra played with toys in the garden of their Buckinghamshire home. A formal portrait of 8-year-old Princess Alexandra. At age 10, she was sent to boarding school at Healthfield, becoming the first British princess to attend boarding school. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below In , Alexandra joined her cousins Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret as bridesmaids in the wedding of Captain Lord Brabourne and Patricia Mountbatten. In this photo, Alexandra is center, standing next to Margaret. The future Queen is in the back left. Princess Alexandra became patron of the British Red Cross Youth in at the age of only 15, and officially took up her post in Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The original caption for this picture of Alexandra at 18 read "Princess Alexandra is of an age when Britons can speculate the course of her romances." The Princess playing tennis at Coppins, her family home in Buckinghamshire. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below A newspaper called Princess Alexandra "the new reigning glamour girl of Mayfair" when she was just 19 years old. The article went on to say, "Succeeding Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra has taken over as leader of the gayest young crowd in London's fashionable night life." Princess Alexandra is pictured here in the garden of the Kent family home, Coppins, in the village of Ivers. She links arms with her brother Prince Edward, who became the Duke of Kent upon his fathe Download photograph ( KB) Portrait of Alexandra, Princess of Wales in dress seated, holding a dog and surrouned by her five children Alexandra of Denmark was the daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glϋcksburg, the heir to the Danish throne. In , Alexandra married Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria and heir apparent to the English throne. She is seen here with her six children Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, Princess Louise, Princess Victoria, Princess Maud and Prince Alexander. The Grants dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales on several occasions. Sources reporting the attitude of the royal couple towards the Grants are contradicting. On one hand it appears, the royal couple behaved graciously towards the Grants. The Prince even welcomed Grant in a speech at one such dinner. Other sources indicate this meeting of democracy and monarchy was not without tension. General Adam Badeau, American diplomat to England and traveling companion to President Grant, felt the members of the British royal family went out of their way to express Grant’s inequality to royalty. He reported the Prince and Princess of Wales did not recognize General Grant as an ex-sovereign. Badeau expected Grant to be treated at the very least as a duke. Badeau writes Grant’s “popularity by this time was conspicuous, and to have an ex-President going about and receiving the attention due to a sovereign or a semi-sovereign was undesirable, perhaps dangerous. It showed the world that there was nothing to royalty after all”. He offers a dinner held at the Marlborough House for the Emperor and Empress of Brazil as an example. Badeau complained that though General Grant and his wife were guests to this dinner, it was made clear that the honored guests were the Emperor and Empress of Brazil. Grant was seated last ranking h
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