One of my earliest childhood memories. from the mid 1960s, was seeing Princess Marina when she visited our local Council Offices. Not very glamorous for her, maybe, but so exciting for us. She had elegance, charm and style and, I believe, was much loved by the general public.
My dear late Mother’s proud memory was that of being part of the team that made Princess Marina’s wedding dress. Everyone received a piece of the material used and I have it in my memory box. ❤️
Wars and revolutions had toppled a number of thrones, thereby making eligible princes hard to come by, on the royal marriage market. So it was no surprise that she couldn't easily catch a husband, despite her beauty and elegance. Her older sister, Princess Olga, couldn't manage better than a cousin of King Alexander I Karageorgevich of Yugoslavia. He and Prince Paul were members of a native, upstart dynasty with no genealogical ties to established dynasties before their respective marriages.
@@ivanreyes6824 Actually if you look at old marriage certificates, all never married women were spinsters regardless of whether they were 18 or 48. In a male dominated society, a woman's status was determined by who she married. An unmarried woman had no status.
@@l.myhanhbarden7290 they were poor even for commoners' standard. Prince Nicholas had to sell his paintings to earn some money while they lived in a hotel while in exile.
@@jcruby2328living in a hotel 🤔 no one was getting their hands dirty. Also, Marina brought plenty of jewels with her. Classed as 'impoverished' because they didn't have a throne any more that didn't mean they were penniless.
@@samanthaallen7556 Yes they are Danish. The Danish king however did not "send" one of his sons. The Greek government asked one of the princes of Denmark to come and be their king; he became George I of Denmark and Greece.
they had Danish, Russian and German blood but not a drop of Greek. Same as Queen Sofia n King Constantine Marina is 1st cousins with Prince Phillip - fathers were brothers
Very sad. I remember walking down Fleet st on the day she died, there was a newspaper board saying that she was ill, then as I walked further along another board stated she had died.
Truly an elegant lady. This coming Sunday there's to be a documentary broadcast on UK television, bizarrely titled, ' Princess Marina, the Forgotten Royal '. I have no clue as to why she would be referred to as 'forgotten'. Forgotten by who, I wonder? She died over 50 years ago so of course she's not going to be at the forefront of the public consciousness, but I would hardly say she was forgotten. However, I shall watch it and can only hope it will do her justice.
It depends on how one defines happy, it seemed to be a relationship of mutual respect, and kindness, but i think his affairs would have been a difficult area in their marriage, divorce was not an option, so she did her duty as best she could.
Always so elegant..her earlier life in Paris as an exile and being a relatively poor Royal...Marina spent time around the Fashion Houses of Paris...Her time there taught Marina how to "accessorise" making a simple outfit...stand out, Marina used these lessons all her life. Marina never gave in to "fashion" she knew what suited her and had a style of her own... One of the first members of the British Royal family to wear trousers and to paint her nails ! Indeed Marina lead the way for our Queen Elizabeth to wear trousers. Soft colours were the order of the day, indeed a colour was named in her honour...Marina Blue. Prince George her Husband was (in his day ) a fashionista in his own right and no dowdy Princess was for him! He chose well, the British people adored her from the very first. Unassuming, dazzlingly attractive, intelligent, well educated and willing to work. Whats not to like ! She died with her oldest Sister Olga also a great beauty... and her 3 children at her bedside.
She was perfectly lovely in every respect. She won the hearts of we British because she was totally herself. No airs and graces. She put up with her gay husband without complaint. I met her daughter who seemed to me kind and if anything more beautiful than her mother.
What a great tribute to a great woman! I love your videos so , so much. You always put so much love in your videos! For me , Marina was one of the most gorgeous and most elegant members the royal family ever had!❤️😍
As a fact always know to be MORE ROYAL THEN THE ROYALS and oh yes she was , Refined ,Educated Caring wonderful lady .A real lady but what a life for such a beautiful woman , Her children have been a credit to her Princess Alexandra is there a royal like her ,A great help to the Queen doing so very much . She like her mother INDEED MUCH MORE ROYAL THEN THE ROYALS ,
I am an American. However for the ethno-nations of Europe, it appears that a constiutional monarchy is beneficial when paired with a Prime Minister and a parliament.
A beautiful lady, she was always referred to, by ordinary people, as Princess Marina although everybody was aware she was Duchess of Kent. As a Princess she easily out-ranked the wives of the other Royal brothers, but of course she then took her husband's rank. I remember that my parents thought she was treated shabbily by the Royals as a widow. She had to continue to work at "Royal" duties to earn from the Civil List.
That was the whole point of the civil list, now The Sovereign Grant! She had a home rent free & earnt money by carrying out Royal duties just like everyone else that benefited from the list!
Katheryne Koelker I think what she meant was Marina outranks her sister in law in royal lineage. Both Elizabeth and Alice were Scottish nobles and the other one is an American.
Everybody loved Princess Marina. Not only was she beautiful - she had class (unlike so many of the family into which she wed); she exhibited this by her attitude to her gay husband. Her daughter, Princess Alexandra, whom I met, continues this civilized tradition.
What are you talking about miserable fool, wake up. What gay husband. Stop inserting this satanic abomination of homosexuality into everything. What a miserable shame
I liked The video put together of her life.But the music was dreadful I had to stop watching a third of the through I couldn't listen to that horribly depressing song sung by that women whose identity I don't know
@@JULIOGARCIA-ei9fj Lo siento, pero habiendo cambiado la computadora ya no tengo el proyecto original. Pero recuerdo que la última música fue de Savio Riccardi (amore e guerra).
Princess Marina died 51 years ago on this day. God bless her. Most beautiful and stylish woman on the Windsor family!
One of my earliest childhood memories. from the mid 1960s, was seeing Princess Marina when she visited our local Council Offices. Not very glamorous for her, maybe, but so exciting for us. She had elegance, charm and style and, I believe, was much loved by the general public.
What s contrast to the current Royals - gracious, refined and willing to put duty first.
She had such wonderful style.
This princess was looking really stunning and royal. Beautiful woman with a very fine taste.
My dear late Mother’s proud memory was that of being part of the team that made Princess Marina’s wedding dress. Everyone received a piece of the material used and I have it in my memory box. ❤️
Hello can i buy that piece of cloth for a million dollars
I just realized that Princess Marina was 28 years old when she married. For those times, that was "mature".
Wars and revolutions had toppled a number of thrones, thereby making eligible princes hard to come by, on the royal marriage market. So it was no surprise that she couldn't easily catch a husband, despite her beauty and elegance. Her older sister, Princess Olga, couldn't manage better than a cousin of King Alexander I Karageorgevich of Yugoslavia. He and Prince Paul were members of a native, upstart dynasty with no genealogical ties to established dynasties before their respective marriages.
Those time, it was considered spinster. Rather harsh in today's standards. But yeah, a woman was expected to be married by the age 18 to early 20's.
@@ivanreyes6824 Actually if you look at old marriage certificates, all never married women were spinsters regardless of whether they were 18 or 48. In a male dominated society, a woman's status was determined by who she married. An unmarried woman had no status.
It would have been classed as "on the shelf" but they needed to marry Prince George off and the marriage was arranged.
For being poor and exiled, there were many elegant portraits and snapshots in elegant settings and in beautiful clothing.
Poor for royalty..
@@l.myhanhbarden7290 they were poor even for commoners' standard. Prince Nicholas had to sell his paintings to earn some money while they lived in a hotel while in exile.
That was called "keeping up appearances".
@@jcruby2328living in a hotel 🤔 no one was getting their hands dirty. Also, Marina brought plenty of jewels with her. Classed as 'impoverished' because they didn't have a throne any more that didn't mean they were penniless.
She had the most remarkable eyes.
she was honestly so adorable
Yes, she had two of them
These Greek prince and princess are really gorgeous: Marina of Kent, Prince Philip, Sofia of Spain.
They are all from the Danish royal family. The Greek throne became available mid 1850s I think. King of Denmark sent one of his sons to be King.
@@samanthaallen7556 Yes they are Danish. The Danish king however did not "send" one of his sons. The Greek government asked one of the princes of Denmark to come and be their king; he became George I of Denmark and Greece.
@@Peggyt-jp6mt thanks for correcting me, much appreciated
they had Danish, Russian and German blood but not a drop of Greek. Same as Queen Sofia n King Constantine
Marina is 1st cousins with Prince Phillip - fathers were brothers
@@jesjes5255 🤣🤣🤣
Princess Marina was not only beautiful and gracious. She was loyal and dependable as well as being
a good mother, in trying circumstances.
Beautiful princess or should beautiful duchess her daughter is my favorite royal ever.
Very sad. I remember walking down Fleet st on the day she died, there was a newspaper board saying that she was ill, then as I walked further along another board stated she had died.
Truly an elegant lady. This coming Sunday there's to be a documentary broadcast on UK television, bizarrely titled, ' Princess Marina, the Forgotten Royal '. I have no clue as to why she would be referred to as 'forgotten'. Forgotten by who, I wonder? She died over 50 years ago so of course she's not going to be at the forefront of the public consciousness, but I would hardly say she was forgotten. However, I shall watch it and can only hope it will do her justice.
Marina died 26 years and two days after her husband.
It depends on how one defines happy, it seemed to be a relationship of mutual respect, and kindness, but i think his affairs would have been a difficult area in their marriage, divorce was not an option, so she did her duty as best she could.
What a sad life for a great princess. Wish there is a narrator because I hardly can read the writing, too small. The music was so distracting too.
Always so elegant..her earlier life in Paris as an exile and being a relatively poor Royal...Marina spent time around the Fashion Houses of Paris...Her time there taught Marina how to "accessorise" making a simple outfit...stand out, Marina used these lessons all her life.
Marina never gave in to "fashion" she knew what suited her and had a style of her own... One of the first members of the British Royal family to wear trousers and to paint her nails ! Indeed Marina lead the way for our Queen Elizabeth to wear trousers. Soft colours were the order of the day, indeed a colour was named in her honour...Marina Blue.
Prince George her Husband was (in his day ) a fashionista in his own right and no dowdy Princess was for him! He chose well, the British people adored her from the very first. Unassuming, dazzlingly attractive, intelligent, well educated and willing to work. Whats not to like ! She died with her oldest Sister Olga also a great beauty... and her 3 children at her bedside.
... a beautiful story, a beautiful marina and husband. Princesa Alexandra got her Mother beauty and elegance.
She was perfectly lovely in every respect. She won the hearts of we British because she was totally herself. No airs and graces. She put up with her gay husband without complaint. I met her daughter who seemed to me kind and if anything more beautiful than her mother.
Gay husband?
@@alfeinarstrmsnes4824 yes the duke of kent
Actually, the Duke of Kent was a bi-sexual.
ac dc
@Andrew Gibbon-Williams. Yes, her daughter, Princess Alexandra, came to my grammar school to present the prizes and she was very beautiful.
What a great tribute to a great woman! I love your videos so , so much. You always put so much love in your videos! For me , Marina was one of the most gorgeous and most elegant members the royal family ever had!❤️😍
Lisa Victoria thank you very much!😘
@@ScaffaleStorico You are welcome😘❤️
I am named after her - my mum loved the name!
Marina Ellinson .So am I. I love my name and am very proud of it and to be named after such a beautiful and wonderful princess. 🙂❤️
Its a beautiful name🌹
Also related to Prince Philip.
Rachel Green both are grandchildren of George I of Greece.
1st cousins. Dads were brothers
@@donna25871
Prince Philip son of Prince Andrew, Princess Marina daughter of Prince Nicolas, both sons of King George I therefore 1st cousins.
@@jesjes5255so German not Greek and her mother was Russian.
What an elegant lady and I love the music .
¿Cómo se llamaban las canciones anteriores?
As a fact always know to be MORE ROYAL THEN THE ROYALS and oh yes she was , Refined ,Educated Caring wonderful lady .A real lady but what a life for such a beautiful woman ,
Her children have been a credit to her Princess Alexandra is there a royal like her ,A great help to the Queen doing so very much . She like her mother INDEED MUCH MORE ROYAL THEN THE ROYALS ,
Love the Kent family all three her children and grandchildren.
Thank you for your beautiful videos. May I ask you for a video about Princess Irene of Greece, Duchess of Aosta?
Good soul this woman.The worst thing that hapened in Greece, is that we lost our royal family.
I am an American. However for the ethno-nations of Europe, it appears that a constiutional
monarchy is beneficial when paired with a Prime Minister and a parliament.
Belo vídeo.
Conta um pouco ou muito da linda princesa Marina!!!
Nice elegant kingdom (I love Denmark's)
She was royal!inevery sence of the word also she brought up bery
Yes she brougt up very royal children very special individuals all three of them!
A beautiful lady, she was always referred to, by ordinary people, as Princess Marina although everybody was aware she was Duchess of Kent. As a Princess she easily out-ranked the wives of the other Royal brothers, but of course she then took her husband's rank. I remember that my parents thought she was treated shabbily by the Royals as a widow. She had to continue to work at "Royal" duties to earn from the Civil List.
The only royal ladies who would have outranked her (other than Queen Mary) was the Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother).
That was the whole point of the civil list, now The Sovereign Grant! She had a home rent free & earnt money by carrying out Royal duties just like everyone else that benefited from the list!
@@gidzmobug2323 The Duchess of Gloucester (Alice) would have outranked her as well.
Katheryne Koelker I think what she meant was Marina outranks her sister in law in royal lineage. Both Elizabeth and Alice were Scottish nobles and the other one is an American.
@@m4lteas3all Norman nobility.
Princess Alexandra is therefore the Great Great granddaughter of Christian IX of Danmark
Splendid video. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon looks so frumpy in comparison. Unfortunately I found the music distracting and inappropriate.
Marina was svelte and had fashion sense, but Elizabeth had beauty and a radiance and joie de vivre that was infectious to all around her.
What a great lady!
She look like her daughter princess lady alexandra ogilvy
Excellent video.
blessOTMA thank you very much!😘
Splendid video only issue is the captions moving too fast can't read them properly
I used pause
Che donna meravigliosa .
Everybody loved Princess Marina. Not only was she beautiful - she had class (unlike so many of the family into which she wed); she exhibited this by her attitude to her gay husband. Her daughter, Princess Alexandra, whom I met, continues this civilized tradition.
What are you talking about miserable fool, wake up. What gay husband. Stop inserting this satanic abomination of homosexuality into everything. What a miserable shame
half of the story... a certain half...
What is the music from.......so enchanting.
What is the title of the music piece at the last part of the video?
Ivan Reyes Savio Riccardi • amore e guerra
¿cómo se llama la segunda canción que tenía antes el video?
The music is awful and awfully loud,distracting. The captions fly by and cannot be read properly.
4:48 mark a quick glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II when she was Princess Elizabeth.
Porfavor en castellano los datos del vídeo
Margo disliked Marina
The music is fine
Why the song it's not the same? 😢💔
¿como se llaman las canciones anteriores?
What are the previous songs called?
Can you do Louise of Mecklenburg and the song is allgretto pour flute
Yes! ;)
DREADFUL MUSIC, WHERE OH WHERE IS TASTE?
sachseco sorry, I don’t have taste in music 🤷🏻♀️
🇦🇺💐🇬🇧✝️
I liked The video put together of her life.But the music was dreadful I had to stop watching a third of the through I couldn't listen to that horribly depressing song sung by that women whose identity I don't know
Patrick mc donnell sorry!😔 We have different taste in music🙈 but thank you!😉
I really enjoyed the music.
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Por que le cambiaron la canción de antes ??? ya no me gusta el video!!!
Tuve que cambiarla debido a problemas de derechos de autor! Lo siento.
@@ScaffaleStorico Por favor, dime cuál era el nombre de las dos ultimas canciones. Aquí tienes un fiel seguidor.
@@JULIOGARCIA-ei9fj Lo siento, pero habiendo cambiado la computadora ya no tengo el proyecto original. Pero recuerdo que la última música fue de Savio Riccardi (amore e guerra).
And how does this affect my life - UA-cam?