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Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and
Dec 28, 2023 · On 25 August 1942, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, died in a military air crash at the age of 39. It brought a tragically early end to the life of a beloved son, brother, father and husband.
Feb 2, 2023 · Prince George, Duke of Kent died in a plane crash on what should've been an uneventful flight from England to Iceland on August 25, 1942, when he was just 39 years old.
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Aug 25, 2022 · PRINCE GEORGE, Duke of Kent died in a tragic accident on this day 80 years ago, changing the lives of the Queen's cousins forever.
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In 1942 his father Prince George, then Duke of Kent, died in a wartime flying accident near Caithness in Scotland while on active service. The title Duke of Kent then passed to the present Duke.
1934, George with Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. On 25 August 1942, four months short of his 40th birthday, the Duke of Kent was killed when the RAF S.25 Short Sunderland Mark III flying boat he was in crashed into a hillside near Dunbeath, Caithness, in the far north of Scotland.
Duke of Kent is a title that has been created several times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of King George V. Since 1942, the title has been held by Prince Edward (born 1935), a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II .
