On This Day In History 29th November 1934 Prince George married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark ◼ The couple married on 29 November 1934 at Westminster Abbey. The bride was a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark & a great-niece of Queen Alexandra. ◼ It was the last marriage to date between a son of a Commonwealth sovereign & a member of a foreign royal house. ◼ Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), daughter of King George VI, married Marina’s cousin & fellow Greek dynast, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, in November 1947, making that the last marriage between the Commonwealth & other royal families. ◼ On 12 October 1934, in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage to his second cousin Princess Marina of Greece & Denmark Prince George had been created Duke of Kent, Earl of St Andrews & Baron Downpatrick. About the Royal Couple; 👑 PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT (b.20 December 1902 – d.25 August 1942) was the fourth son & fifth child of King George V & Queen Mary, & younger brother of Kings Edward VIII & George VI. ◼ He held the title of Duke of Kent from 1934 until his death in a military air-crash. His death, on 25 August 1942, marked the first death of a member of the Royal Family on active service in 400 years. 👑 Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b.13 December – d.27 August 1968) . Princess Marina was born in Athens, Greece, on 13 December 1906. Her father was Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, the third son of George I of Greece. Her mother was Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. She was the youngest of the couple’s children. One of her paternal uncles was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. #OnThisDayInHistory #Thisdayinhistory #TheYear1934 #WestminsterAbbey #RoyalWedding #HouseofWindsor #PrinceGeorge #PrinceGeorgeDukeofKent #DukeofKent #BritishMonarchy #PrincessMarina #DuchessofKent #History #D29Nov #RoyalHistory #Royalweddings #brideandgroom (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5d_gBegOH1/?igshid=6incac6s70qg
