Other British Royals and Relations

[Daisy Pusher]

OK, maybe we can keep the gossip about Linley, the Kents and the Gloucesters somewhere now.

X-Posted from the other thread Viscount Linley named as the royal relation in the center of the blackmailing scandal.

By the way, it irks me that he keeps getting called a royal by the media. He's not, his mother was a royal! Gah.

[octoberwitch]

kokopelli said:

OK, maybe we can keep the gossip about Linley, the Kents and the Gloucesters somewhere now.

X-Posted from the other thread Viscount Linley named as the royal relation in the center of the blackmailing scandal.

By the way, it irks me that he keeps getting called a royal by the media. He's not, his mother was a royal! Gah.

Well, he is 12th in line to the throne. If his mother had been male, he would be called Prince. Much closer to royal then Prince Michael of Kent.

[Daisy Pusher]

octoberwitch said:

kokopelli said:

OK, maybe we can keep the gossip about Linley, the Kents and the Gloucesters somewhere now.

X-Posted from the other thread Viscount Linley named as the royal relation in the center of the blackmailing scandal.

By the way, it irks me that he keeps getting called a royal by the media. He's not, his mother was a royal! Gah.

Well, he is 12th in line to the throne. If his mother had been male, he would be called Prince. Much closer to royal then Prince Michael of Kent.

I must respectfully disagree with you there, octoberwitch. Although Linley might be closer to the Queen in the line of succession, Prince Michael of Kent is definitely more "royal" by any account, genealogical or otherwise. First, Michael is an actual HRH, unlike Linley. Second, he is also royal on both sides of the fence. His father was of course George, Duke of Kent, son of George V. His mother was Princess Marina of Greece, and through her, Michael has direct ties with the (now defunct)Russian throne, as Marina's mother was a Grand Duchess of Russia who married Prince Nicholas of Greece), as well as the Greek and Danish royal families. And he's also related by to the Serbian ex-royals through one maternal aunt (Olga) as well as some very grand old families of the Gotha through another aunt (Elisabeth, who married into the wealthy Toerring-Jettenbachs).

edited: sorry, I have a tendency to go on about royal genealogies sometimes. They are all so tangled!

[pellacan]

His mother was Princess Marina of Greece

Wasn't Marina also Phillip/the Duke of Edinburgh's mother? Or am I confusing my royal spawnings? It's all, um, Greek to me.

[Metizia]

No, Philip's mother was Princess Andrew of Greece (born Princess Alice of Battenberg). Princess Marina's father (Prince Nicolas) was the brother of Prince Andrew (Philip's father). Prince Philip & Princess Marina were cousins.

[Mouse]

Well, at least Viscount Linley has a job and makes his own way in the world. He's avoided scandal for the most part and seems to have been devoted to his mother. Prince and Princess Michael, on the other hand, are a couple of feckless losers who exist mainly to make fools of themselves.

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mouse said:

Well, at least Viscount Linley has a job and makes his own way in the world. He's avoided scandal for the most part and seems to have been devoted to his mother. Prince and Princess Michael, on the other hand, are a couple of feckless losers who exist mainly to make fools of themselves.

Who ARE these two people, anyway? What relevance do they serve? I seem to have heard a lot of nasty stories about Princess Michael-which makes me feel that if that's how most of the aristocrats behaved back in the days, then no wonder they wanted their heads off in France.

[octoberwitch]

yuna said:

mouse said:

Well, at least Viscount Linley has a job and makes his own way in the world. He's avoided scandal for the most part and seems to have been devoted to his mother. Prince and Princess Michael, on the other hand, are a couple of feckless losers who exist mainly to make fools of themselves.

Who ARE these two people, anyway? What relevance do they serve? I seem to have heard a lot of nasty stories about Princess Michael-which makes me feel that if that's how most of the aristocrats behaved back in the days, then no wonder they wanted their heads off in France.

I think Princess Michael cheats on her husband. It is also known that her father was a Nazi officer.

[azaleaqueen]

Viscount Linley is Princess Margaret's son. I think Prince Michael is a cousin of the queen.

[Daisy Pusher]

octoberwitch said:

yuna said:

Who ARE these two people, anyway? What relevance do they serve? I seem to have heard a lot of nasty stories about Princess Michael-which makes me feel that if that's how most of the aristocrats behaved back in the days, then no wonder they wanted their heads off in France.

I think Princess Michael cheats on her husband. It is also known that her father was a Nazi officer.

Just based on all the stories I have heard about her, I cannot stand Princess Michael. Wasn't she caught last year canoodling with some Russian billionaire? I figured she must have been trying to wheedle some money out of him.