His decision to publish a memoir comes as a surprise. Yet the Duke of Kent, now 86, can walk down Kensington High Street and nobody will recognise him. He has witnessed all the major events of the Queen’s reign, and he has never stepped out of line. He is her first cousin, a Knight of the Garter, the senior freemason, and stands 12th in the order of precedence. The Duke of Kent has devoted his life to serving the Queen. As an infant, his pram was pushed by a liveried footman and followed by a detective wearing a bowler hat. He was the son of the glamorous royal couple Prince George Duke of Kent (a younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI) and Princess Marina, a granddaughter of the King of Greece. When the Duke of Kent was christened in 1935, hundreds of people flocked to watch the baby coming out of his parents’ house in Belgrave Square.
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