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George and Marina

Duke and Duchess of Kent

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George and Marina

Yazan: Christopher Warwick
Seslendiren: Gildart Jackson
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For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy's - indeed, high society's - most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons, they are still remembered. As a young man voraciously addicted to drugs and sex with men as much as women, marriage and parenthood for the impetuously wayward playboy prince, with his nightclubbing lifestyle and intimate liaisons, was seen as the only stabilizing influence. Enter the stylish and sophisticated Princess Marina, the cultured, artistic, and multilingual youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and his Russian-born wife, Grand Duchess Yelena Vladimirovna. As Duke and Duchess of Kent, George and Marina were the Crown's most glittering representatives, not least in the aftermath of the abdication of George's adored elder brother, the briefly reigned King Edward VIII, the man not only with whom he had shared both home and high-flying lifestyles but who had helped cure him of his addiction to morphine and cocaine.

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Reads like a cuttings job. Odd delivery. One doesn’t get to know them well, apart from Marina’s childhood and exile(s).

No real insight into royal golden couple

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The story of George and Marina is a fairy tale one that mirrors a period of history when the public were kept in the dark about most things royal. George would be destroyed these days by the Twitterati. He was bi sexual and she loved him dearly. This is a very staid re-telling of their lives. They were both wonderful characters, and his death full of mystery, but you would hardly know it from this book.

Wonderful woman but story told in the dullest way.

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Every time there was a person, their lineage and connections were explained. Took away from the story. Also, seemed to skid over the juicy stuff. A sanitised read.

Lots of name dropping

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Didn't know a lot about the Kents. Filled all the gaps. Not sensationalised and seemed balanced.

Good overview of the Kents

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Mainly, I found it boring and learned very little. It all felt surface deep and the narrator did nothing to enliven the dull text. For all that they were the bright young things in the 1930s there isn't a sparkle left 80 years later. If the author had dug deeper, challenged beliefs and behaviour then we might have got to the core of this couple but we didn't.

Dull, plodding and surface deep

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