HRH Princess Michael of Kent
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| Princess Michael of Kent | |
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Princess Michael of Kent on Armistice Day, 2008
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| Born | Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz 15 January 1945 Carlsbad, Sudetenland, Greater German Reich |
| Spouse |
Thomas Troubridge (m. 1971; div. 1977) Prince Michael of Kent (m. 1978) |
| Issue |
Lord Frederick Windsor Lady Gabriella Windsor |
| House | Windsor (by marriage) |
| Father | Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz |
| Mother | Countess Maria Anna Szapáry von Muraszombath |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Occupation | Author; interior designer |
Princess Michael of Kent (née Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz; born 15 January 1945) is a member of the British Royal Family of German and Hungarian descent. She is married to Prince Michael of Kent, a grandson of King George V. Princess Michael was an interior designer before becoming an author; she has written several books on European royalty (mostly her cousins). She also undertakes lecture tours as well as supporting her husband in his public duties.
Princess Michael of Kent was born on 15 January 1945, in Karlsbad, a town then in German-populated Sudetenland and now known as Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. She was born just prior to the defeat and the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe, near the family estates of her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz; the expulsion of Germans resident in Czechoslovakia followed later that year.
Princess Michael is the younger daughter of Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz (Freiherr) by his wife Countess Maria-Anna-Carolina-Franziska-Walpurga-Bernadette, daughter of Count Friedrich Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Saint Petersburg at the outbreak of World War I. Princess Michael's elder sister was Margarita (born 18 January 1924) by her father's first marriage to Margherita, Countess .
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