On This Day In History . 4 July 1942 . Prince Michael of Kent was born at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. . ◼ His father was the Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V & Queen Mary, & was killed in a plane crash near Caithness, Scotland, on 25 August 1942, just six weeks after his third child was born. . ◼ His mother was Princess Marina of Greece & Denmark, Duchess of Kent, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece & Denmark & of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. (The Duchess of Kent's parents were second cousins to one another, being that Nicholas' mother Olga Constantinovna of Russia & Elena's father Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia were first cousins through the line of Nicholas I of Russia.) . ◼ As a grandchild of a British sovereign in the male line, he is styled as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland with the prefix His Royal Highness. . ◼ Michael was christened on 4 August 1942 in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle . ◼ Among his godparents were King George VI (his paternal uncle); the Queen of the Netherlands; the King of Norway (his great-uncle); US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, & the Hereditary Princess of Greece (who was not present), the wife of Paul of Greece, his first cousin-once-removed. . ◼ He is named after Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, & a first cousin of three of Michael's grandparents. Since his mother was a cousin of Prince Philip, he is also a second cousin to Prince Charles & his siblings . . ❓ Did you know ? At the age of five, Prince Michael was a page boy at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Elizabeth II) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh) in 1947 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1942 #d4jul #PrinceMichael #HisRoyalHighness #HouseofWindsor #Monarchy #BritishMonarchy #PrinceMichaelofKent #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #UnitedKingdom #britain #Prince #Royalty #OnThisDay #Princegeorge #Dukeofkent #Duchessofkent #Princessmarina (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzf1KCSAxPh/?igshid=1xsbp2dmp5bgx
