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Expected to join the royal party were Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten and the King's youngest and favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, with his elegant, dashing Greek wife Marina. In a unique tribute to this pair last week newsorgans of Sydney, Australia urged that if the King can not come to the 1938 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of that Commonwealth, he should send the Duke and Duchess of Kent and they should bring with them Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who may some day be England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Balls & Balls & Balls | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Married. Alicia du Pont Glendening Llewellyn, 33, adopted daughter of the late Alfred Irenee du Pont; and George Ruddle Kent, 45, of Philadelphia; in Carson City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 17, 1936 | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Leaving their baby son Prince Edward with his nurse in England, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent flew to Paris for a seven-week holiday on the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...celebrities are numerous and strange. They include the Duke of Kent, Victoria's father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrities & Shims | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...King Edward, first kissing the wholesome Duchess of York and the graceful Duchess of Kent, took his stand in a great durbar tent pitched on the close-cropped lawn of Buckingham Palace for the first presentations of ladies in the new reign. (Gentlemen were presented in March and June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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