Alexandra of Kent

Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel of Kent

Daughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942) and his wife Marina, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1906-1968)

Born: No. 3 Belgrave Square, London 25. Dec 1936

Christened: Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace 9. Feb 1937

Godparents:

• George VI. King of the United Kingdom (her paternal uncle)

• Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (her paternal uncle’s wife)

• Queen Maud of Norway (born Princess of the United Kingdom, her father’s paternal aunt)

• Carl Theodor, Graf von Toerring-Jettenbach (her mother’s brother-in-law)

• Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (her father’s maternal uncle)

• Helena, Princess of Greece and Denmark (born Yelena Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, her maternal grandmother)

• Olga, Princess of Yugoslavia (born Princess of Greece and Denmark, her maternal aunt)

• Beatrice, Princess of Battenberg (born Princess of the United Kingdom, her great-great-aunt)

Married: Westminster Abbey, London 24. Apr 1963 Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy (1928-2004), son of David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie (1893-1968) and his wife Lady Alexandra Coke (d. 1984), daughter of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1848-1941)

Issue:

• James Ogilvy (1964) m. 1988 Julia Rawlinson (1964)

• Marina Ogilvy (1966) m. 1990 (div. 1997) Paul Mowatt (1962)

  

  

Marlene A. Eilers ”Queen Victoria’s Descendants”, Rosvall Royal Books 1997; Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürsten II, Vol XVII 2004; Alison Weir: “Britain’s Royal Families”, Vintage Books 2008