George duke of kent biography of alberta
Henry duke of gloucester.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
December 1902 – August 1942
Prince George was born on 20 December 1902 at York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
George duke of kent biography of alberta
His parents were King George V and Queen Mary, his father was at the time of George's birth, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward VII and his Danish-born wife Queen Alexandra. His mother, who was then Princess of Wales was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a morganatic scion of the House of Wurttemberg who was of German and Hungarian descent and a distant descendant of Vlad Dracul.
Queen Mary's mother, Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, formerly Princess of Cambridge, was a granddaughter of King George III.
The new arrival was baptised in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on 26 January 1903 and was given the names George Edward Alexander Edmund.
He was the fifth of six children born to the Yorks. At his birth, he had 3 elder brothers, David (later Edward VIII), Albert (later George VI) and Henry and a sister Mary, a furthe