HMQueenElizabethII
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You can find pics of Princess Michael at Italian State Visit to Great Britain thread.THere are some pics there agisele.
agisele said:she's called Princess Michael, because upon her marriage to Prince Michael, she was a Catholic. and according to the rules, when a member of the royal family marries a catholic, he loses his rights to the throne.
therefore it meant that upon her marriage to Prince Michael, she did not get a title of her own, and therefore is now known as Princess Michael of Kent.
james said:The Princess was at the 90th birthday party of an old Hapsberg gentleman a few years ago. I saw pictures but not sure who he was. Queen Silvia of Sweden and Prince Felipe were also there.
Toledo said:Love her or hate her, Princess Michael is the most glamorous member of the House of Windsor. I think her so called remark on 'go back to the colonies' was quite exagerated by the New York papers that are no more than tabloids disguised as real newspapers. But she has a tendency to speak her mind and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, even when she just expresses a point of view. Like when she said that the english she knows (I guess she is talking about the British aristocrats, not the english people in general) treat their dogs better than they treat their children.
She was also one of the few royals who openly came to the defense of Prince Harry and asked the press to leave the kid alone. That's more than Harry's aunt and uncles and grandparents ever said in public to defend him from harrasment. So, love her or hate her, she is quite entertaining.
I read that one (not till the end though). The Kitty Kelley's book is notoriously one of the most erroneous book ever written on the BRF. She gets some basics facts so wrong that's it's laughable. But it is true that M-C had at least one lover (she was caught by paps).grecka said:I've been reading The Royals by Kitty Kelley, and, in that book, there are several things about Princess Michael of Kent which are utterly unflattering. For one, Kelley talks about how Princess Michael had several lovers, many American. For another, she said the Queen and Prince Phillip call her "Our Val" because she looks like the Viking Valkyries (not so derogatory). But anyway, she talks about how the rest of the royals simply view Prince and Princess Michael of Kent as the equivalent of what in America would be trailer trash.
I agree that MC is very grand and sometimes arrogant. But she hardly makes money from her title. She is an extremely talented writer (just read the critics of her books). The HRH status did not help Edward career (since he is so untalented) nor sell the Prince Charles' painting at a recent auction.tiaraprin said:Princess Michael revels in having an HRH and making money from it for her grand expenditures.
Do you consider the millions young Germans who were enrolled by force in the Hitler youth as Nazi? If the answer is yes, then OK, MC's father was a Nazi.She did it to further sanitize her father's WWII activities. He wore a swastika but supposedly wasn't a "Nazi". This was her way of saying Harry isn't a Nazi just like my father wasn't a Nazi. Princess Michael never does anything that will not further her personal interests.
Thank you, you made me laugh.grecka said:Whether or not all that is true, I hope that Princess Michael reveals the name of her plastic surgeon, cause the old witch looks fabulous. Seriously, the lady's hips must be made of titanium by now, but she's still gorgeous. I'd pray to Ishtar to look that good at 60.
Idriel said:Do you consider the millions young Germans who were enrolled by force in the Hitler youth as Nazi? If the answer is yes, then OK, MC's father was a Nazi.
If not, you may check in any good history book that when Nazis went to occupy certain foreign countries, most members of the establishment and army were given SS rank and were compelled to wear Nazi uniform in order to accelerate the nazification.
It was what happened to MC's dad. Now he may not have been an hero of the resistance, but a Nazi? I don't buy it. Not at all.
grecka said:Whether or not all that is true, I hope that Princess Michael reveals the name of her plastic surgeon, cause the old witch looks fabulous. Seriously, the lady's hips must be made of titanium by now, but she's still gorgeous. I'd pray to Ishtar to look that good at 60.
Thank you Queen Elizabeth.HMQueenElizabethII said:I just found this picture of TRH atteding the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II:
Picture from Uppa UK:
grecka said:As I understand it, the Duchess withdrew from public life after her conversion to Catholicism. Was she maligned by the rest of the family for it? From what I've read, Princess Michael wasn't heavily ostracized due to her religion.