Other British Royals and Relations

[canuckcutie]

The situation regarding their apartment has always been a little unclear. Their apt was apparently “gifted” to them upon their marriage but they paid around £69 a week for maintenance etc for a period of 20+ years. When there was a public outcry around their subsidized apt, the Queen stepped in and paid rent for them. They’ve allegedly been paying the rent themselves since 2010 but whether that’s actually true......

[Sunnyhorse]

May 8, 2021 15:42:43 GMT -4 luckylexie said:

I thought the bulging eyes came from Queen Victoria. Talk about peepers.

Speaking of Princess Michael, her son’s looks/eyes always struck me as creepy. I don’t know why. I forget his name, but he’s married to the actress Sophie Winkleman.

Freddie Windsor.

[Mouse]

Never could figure out how the royal roster became so bloated. I'm sure the Kents and Gloucesters are nice people, but how needed are they?

[OnyxRose]

May 24, 2021 9:48:36 GMT -4 Mouse said:

Never could figure out how the royal roster became so bloated. I'm sure the Kents and Gloucesters are nice people, but how needed are they?

I mean, they were needed until all of HM’s kids became of age. The Queen also is from another mindset and just liked them a lot too. They were her cousins after al. But I don’t think Charles ever liked how big the circle was and he was always going to cut people off. What Harry and his Sussex fans don’t understand is that he occupies a spot that the Kents and Gloucesters do...they were grandchildren of a monarch as well. Maybe Harry thought he was different because his dad is in line.

[royalwave]

Harry's best points of comparison should have been Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew, back in the day. If he was clueless, I don't see how he has anyone but himself to blame.

His mistake seems to be thinking that he could somehow alter the course of history as the monarchy modernizes by building a bigger role for himself. Maybe he figured that once Charles cut the monarchy down to size, fewer people would mean more prominence for Harry. Or he thought William would be a different sort of monarch someday that would want to basically "share" the role with him. Completely unrealistic.

Can you imagine David Linley & Sarah Chatto in a position like the Kents & Gloucesters? I can't. Yet they would be the equivalent when Charles becomes King. Odd situation though when you are waiting until your 70s or 80s to take the throne. All of his cousins have built their own lives pretty much completely separate from the crown and are of retirement age now. It was a different story when the Queen took the throne in her early 20s and only had one sibling to help out. Her kids were too young to be of service, so she relied on cousins. She wouldn't have had to do that if she had come to the throne a few decades later.

[Deleted]

Kent’s and Gloucester’s were nephews/ nieces and cousins of a Monarch.
Harry still is son of and brother to a future monarch,. His slot is more Mags/ Andy His position hasn’t changed just location.

[Deleted]

The Fail have an article that got me curious about the current Duke of Kent father, I didn’t click the link but went looking to see if there was some other source
Fails Headline.... Was the death of the Queen's favourite uncle in a 1942 plane crash covered up by the Palace because he'd smuggled his lover aboard? Prince George, Duke of Kent, was one of 15 accounted for - so who was the '16th' passenger,

I lose track of the Royal Who’s who and then something like this pops up and I’m oh yeah there was that other brother another Uncle of the Queen.

Any more about him here, sounds like an “interesting” character for sure.
George, Duke of Kent, was every bit as stylish and even wilder than his more celebrated older brother, Edward VIII. Why is so little attention given to a dapper, mercurial royal figure whose death in a suspicious air crash in 1942 only adds to the mystique?

I couldn’t see anything about a smuggled on the flight mistress here but it reads like it wouldn’t a shock if there was and a cover ( I’m going to have read that link now, I promise to have words with myself after)

Edit( I’m down a rabbit hole now)
According to TheFail
There was talk of favoring him after the abdication as Georgie’s elegant wife Marina, granddaughter of the king of Greece, had borne him two sons and a daughter and many favoured a male line of succession which Bertie could not provide.
( I can see where at the time the potential male succession line would have at least been given some casual if not serious thought)

Imagine if they done that, the current Duke of Kent would be King ( he who hands out the trophies at Wimbledon) crazy to wonder how different things could have been. His kids / grands would the Charles/Wills in place instead now I’m off to see who the younger Kents are.

[Auroranorth]

There was definite speculation, but legally I don't think they'd have been able to jump the line of succession, especially because they'd be dropping down two places as Gloucester was older than Kent. However, Kent was also a HUGE party boy and had been a drug addict according to some sources, so I don't think they'd have wanted to take the risk of another hot mess on the throne.

[Mouse]

Marina, the current Duke of Kent's mother, was a piece of work too. She was originally a Greek princess (what is it with Greece and British royals), and she was basically broke she married George, the Duke of Kent. After the marriage, she called her in-laws, the QM and Princess Alice of Gloucester, "those common little Scottish girls." Princess Michael isn't the only snobbish twit in that branch of the family.

[chitowngirl]

Does The Duke of York title (Prince Andrew’s title) revert back to the Crown once he passes since he has no male heirs? And since it is usually given to the 2nd son, would Harry receive it from Charles when he becomes king or would it be saved for Prince Louis and William will bestow the title. AND, if Andrew had male heirs and they had male heirs, would the title keep getting passed down Andrew’s line like the Kents and Gloucesters?