Princess Michael of Kent
HRH Princess Michael of Kent ( born January 15, 1945 in Karlsbad, Sudetenland ( now Czech Republic) as Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida Baroness of Reibnitz ), is by marrying a member of the British royal family. Princess Michael of Kent is the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Biography
Princess Michael (Eng. about Princess and Princess Michael ) is the only daughter of Günther von Reibnitz and his wife Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walpurga Bernadette Szapáry of Muraszombath, Széchysziget and Szapar. In 1985 it was revealed that her father had been since 1933 a member of the Rider -SS. Her parents divorced in 1946. The father went to South Africa and lived in Mozambique later. Marie Christine of Reibnitz lived with his mother in Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
In her first marriage, she was married to banker Thomas Troubridge; They were divorced in 1977 and Pope Paul VI. canceled in 1978, the church wedding. Her second husband, who had been a school friend of her former husband, she got to know in London. They married in 1978 in a civil ceremony in Vienna and later church in London. By marriage with a Catholic, Michael retired from Kent to the Act of Settlement of 1701 from the throne from. The marriage produced two children come, Lord Frederick Windsor ( b. 1979 ) and Lady Gabriella Windsor ( b. 1981 ). They are members of the Church of England and thus taken into account in the line of succession.
HM The Queen HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
- HRH The Prince of Wales HRH The Duchess of Cornwall HRH The Duke of Cambridge HRH The Duchess of Cambridge HRH Prince George of Cambridge
- HRH Princess Beatrice of York
- HRH Princess Eugenie of York
- HRH The Duke of Gloucester HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
- HRH The Duke of Kent HRH The Duchess of Kent
- HRH Prince Michael of Kent HRH Princess Michael of Kent
- HRH Princess Alexandra
Name
His marriage to Prince Michael, the bride earned not own princesses title (such as " Princess Marie- Christine" ), so it leads - as usual in England - her husband's name in the title, "Princess Michael". However, there are no other by marriage Princess in the English aristocracy that does not bear the title of a duchess or a countess under their own name, and thus Princess Michael is the only one that performs this title combination. Within the royal family, for example, by the Queen, the Princess is in her first name, Marie- Christine called.
Criticism
2005 became Princess Michael in the headlines after she had uttered to the journalist Mazher Mahmood, who was posing as Sheikh condescending about members of the royal family, for example through Prince Charles and his second wife Camilla.
2006 Princess Michael and the widowed Russian furniture dealers and multi-millionaire Mikhail Kravchenko (born 1966 ), holding hands photographed in Venice. Rumours about an affair in the British press were denied by her. The Russian 2012 was found shot dead in Moscow.
Both Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, by the British press for her brash nature as Princess Pushy (Eng. about Princess Pushy ) is referred to, were also repeated in the criticism to exploit their royal status for their personal advantage. In 2002, revealed the British press that the couple only one month's rent of 276 pounds for the apartment with more than ten rooms at Kensington Palace, its maintenance the British taxpayer at the time cost more than a million pounds, paid, whereas the actual monthly rent at 10,000 pounds were. Then invited a group of lower house deputies that the couple would have to be evicted. Since 2010, Prince Michael paid the annual rent of 120,000 pounds after Elizabeth II had paid the costs since 2002 and acquired in 1980 he had his second home, Nether Lypiatt in Stroud in 2005 sold for £ 5 million.
Works
Marie Christine of Kent wrote four works of fiction.
- Princess Michael of Kent: Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of eight royal brides. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986, ISBN 0-297-79010-2.
- Princess Michael of Kent: Cupid and the King. Harper Collins, 1991, ISBN 0-002-23911-6.
- Princess Michael of Kent: The Serpent and The Moon: two rivals for the love of a Renaissance king. Simon and Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-743-25104-0.
- Princess Michael of Kent: The Queen of Four Kingdoms. Constable, 2013, ISBN 978-1472108456
Title
- Baroness Marie Christine of Reibnitz (January 15, 1945 - September 14, 1971 )
- Baroness Marie Christine of Reibnitz, Mrs. Thomas Troubridge (September 14, 1971 - June 30, 1978 )
- Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent ( June 30, 1978)
Your full title is: Her Royal Highness Princess Michael George Charles Franklin of Kent