Queen Elizabeth marked a very vital milestone on June 2 — her Platinum Jubilee.
But throughout one particular of the key situations — the Trooping the Color parade — one distinctive, fewer-identified particular person created an visual appearance alongside her: Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent.
So, who is this lesser-acknowledged royal?
The duke, 86, is the 96-yr-outdated queen’s initially cousin and he emerged on the Buckingham Palace balcony to get the formal salute to celebrate the monarch’s momentous 70-12 months reign.
The duke took the put of the sovereign’s late husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died final 12 months at 99.
Prince Edward donned his red army uniform for the occasion and later on joined other associates of the royal loved ones to wave to the crowds standing down below the palace.
The Duke of Kent is the son of Prince George, who died in an plane crash in 1942 and inherited the dukedom at 6. Prince George was the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, as nicely the younger brother of King George VI.
King George VI was the queen’s father he died in February 1952.
Prince Edward’s mom, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, was also a initially cousin of Prince Philip.
This line of the royal family members tree would make him each the second cousin and the initially cousin at the time removed to the queen’s oldest son and heir, Prince Charles.
Edward is married to Katharine Worsley, the Duchess of Kent, and they have 3 youngsters — George, Earl of St Andrews, Lady Helen Taylor and Lord Nicholas Windsor.
The Duchess of Kent, 89, attained notoriety in 1994 when she transformed to Catholicism. She was the initially member of the royal loved ones to do so publicly since the passage of the Act of Settlement in 1701. Given that the conversion took place following their wedding ceremony, the duke didn’t squander his placement in the line of succession.
Edward has also served in the military services for much more than 20 years, according to the official royal family web site.
He was the initial member of the relatives to make an official check out to China in 1979.
The family’s site notes that the father of a few “is concerned with around 140 different charities, organizations and expert bodies which include a broad vary of difficulties, from commemorating the war lifeless to fostering the enhancement of British know-how and sector.
“His Royal Highness undertakes various engagements just about every 12 months in help of these companies, each in the United kingdom and across the Commonwealth,” the website additional.
He also escorted Queen Elizabeth throughout final year’s diminished Trooping the Color ceremony amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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