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Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Ladies of the Garter and Ladies of the Thistle )〕 (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936) is the youngest granddaughter of King George V and Queen Mary. The widow of Sir Angus Ogilvy, prior to her marriage she was known as ''Princess Alexandra of Kent'', the first princess to use the territorial designation ''of Kent'' since the accession to the throne of her great-great-grandmother Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent as Queen Victoria. Princess Alexandra has carried out many royal duties on behalf of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth II. As of May 2015, she is 49th in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 states; at the time of her birth in 1936, she was sixth. ==Early life== Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London. Her parents were Prince George, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary) and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. She was named after her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra; her grandmother, Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark; and both of her maternal aunts, Countess Karl Theodor of Törring-Jettenbach and Princess Paul of Yugoslavia. She received the name Christabel because she was born on Christmas Day, like her aunt by marriage, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Her birth was the last to have the tradition of having the Home Secretary present to verify the birth of potential heirs to the throne. Secretary Sir John Simon was present and was the last to do this. As a male-line granddaughter of the British monarch, she was styled as a British princess with the prefix ''Her Royal Highness''. At the time of her birth, she was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her cousins Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, her uncle the Duke of Gloucester, her father the Duke of Kent, and her elder brother Prince Edward. She was born two weeks after the abdication of her uncle King Edward VIII. The Princess was baptised in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace, on 9 February 1937, and her godparents were: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (her paternal uncle and aunt); the Queen of Norway (her great-aunt); Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (her maternal grandmother); Princess Olga of Yugoslavia (her maternal aunt); the Princess Beatrice (her paternal great-great-aunt); the Earl of Athlone (her paternal great-uncle); and Count Karl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach (her maternal uncle by marriage). Of her godparents, only the King and Queen and Lord Athlone were present.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yvonne's Royalty Home Page – Royal Christenings )〕 Princess Alexandra spent most of her childhood at her family's country house, Coppins, in Buckinghamshire. She lived with her grandmother, Queen Mary, the widow of George V, during World War II at Badminton. Her father was killed in an aeroplane crash near Caithness, Scotland on 25 August 1942 while serving in the Royal Air Force. Princess Alexandra has the distinction of being the first British princess to have attended a boarding school, Heathfield School near Ascot.〔 She then studied in Paris. She was also trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital.〔 She was a bridesmaid at the 1946 wedding of Captain Lord Brabourne and Lady Patricia Mountbatten.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/princess-elizabeth-princess-alexandra-of-kent-and-princess-news-photo/3366670 )〕 The following year, she served as bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, the then-Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh, on 20 November 1947. The Queen is Princess Alexandra's paternal first cousin; the Duke of Edinburgh is Princess Alexandra's maternal first cousin once removed. She was also a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and her second cousin, Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark. 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 Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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