Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent

Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark), (13 December 1906 - 27 August 1968) was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the wife of HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary.

Titles and honours

Shorthand titles

• Her Royal Highness Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (13 December 1906–29 November 1934)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent (29 November 1934–11 May 1937)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent, GBE (11 May–9 June 1937)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent, CI, GBE (9 June 1937–1 January 1948)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent, CI, GCVO, GBE (1 January 1948–8 June 1961)
• Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, CI, GCVO, GBE (8 June 1961–27 August 1968)

Honours

• Companion of the Order of the Crown of India
• Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
• Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
• Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
• Royal Family Order of George V, 2nd Class
• Royal Family Order of George VI, 2nd Class
• Royal Family Order of Elizabeth II, 2nd Class
• The Order of St. Olga and St. Sophia, 1st Class (Greece)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Beneficence (Greece)
• Grand Cross of the National Order of the Aztec Eagle (Mexico)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (Peru)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Chile)
• Grand Cross of the National Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin (Argentina)

Honorary military appointments

Colonel-in-chief of:

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• The Kent Regiment
• The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Dorset Regiment
• The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment
• The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
• Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• The Queen's Regiment (Allied)

Honorary Colonel of:

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• The Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• 4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• 431 LAA Regiment RA
• 299th (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and Berkshire) Field Regiment, RA
• The Buckinghamshire Regiment, RA (Territorials)

Also:

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• Colonel, The Queen's Own Buffs
• Honorary Commandant, Womens' Royal Australian Naval Service