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| issue =Lord Frederick Windsor Lady Gabriella Windsor | full name =Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida〔As a titled royal, Princess Michael seldom uses a surname, but, when one ''is'' used, it is Windsor.〕 | house =Windsor (by marriage) | father =Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz | mother =Countess Maria Anna Szapáry von Muraszombath | birth_date = | birth_place =Carlsbad, Sudetenland, Greater German Reich | occupation =Author; interior designer | religion =Roman Catholicism }} Princess Michael of Kent (Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida; ''née'' 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. The Kents do not have an official programme of royal duties, although from time to time they represent Queen Elizabeth II overseas. ==Early life== 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 von Seherr-Thoß. Marie-Christine previously dated Anthony Dalzell. Through her mother, Princess Michael is descended from Diane de Poitiers,〔Thru Diane's youngest daughter thru her earlier marriage Louise de Brézé (1518–1577), later via marriage marquesse de Mayenne and later duchesse d'Aumale. ''The Serpent and The Moon: two rivals for the love of a Renaissance king''.〕 Henry II of France's mistress,〔And to add further, great16-granddaughter of Agnès Sorel; Diane's husband is Agnès' grandson thru her daughter Charlotte, ''Fille de France''. ''Cupid and the King''.〕 and Catherine (de' Medici),〔Thru her 2nd child and eldest daughter Elisabeth, ''Fille de France'', later to be Philip II of Spain's 3rd wife. ''The Serpent and The Moon: two rivals for the love of a Renaissance king''.〕 Queen of France,〔Thru both ladies, their common descendant is Luigi Vittorio de Savoie (1721–1778: HRH's mother's maternal great5-grandfather), Prince de Carignano. Son of Vittoria Francesca di Savoia (1690–1766; great5-granddaughter of Diane) & Vittorio Amadeo de Savoie (1690–1741; great3-grandson of Catherine), Prince de Carignano. ''The Serpent and The Moon: two rivals for the love of a Renaissance king''.〕 as well as from the celebrated painter Peter Paul Rubens. Her father was a Nazi party member serving as a Sturmbannführer (Major) in the SS during the Second World War; he settled at Maforga, Mozambique after being divorced. Her mother and brother, Baron Friedrich (Fred) von Reibnitz moved to Australia; the Freiin Marie-Christine established a beauty salon, while Fred von Reibnitz (now living in Canberra) joined the Australian Public Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Launch of "Informing a Nation: The Evolution of the Australian Bureau of Statistics" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princess Michael of Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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