{"id":334053,"date":"2026-03-07T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:29:08","slug":"princess-michael-of-kent-suffers-stroke-as-royal-is-left-bedridden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334053\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Michael of Kent suffers stroke as royal is left ‘bedridden’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Michael of Kent is understood to be seriously ill after suffering a stroke, with the royal being left “bedridden”.<\/p>\n

Marie Christine, 81, who is married to Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, Prince Michael, suffered a health setback in what has been a tough period for the princess.<\/p>\n

A friend of Princess Michael told the Daily Mail: “Her Royal Highness suffered a stroke. Sadly, she is now bedridden.”<\/p>\n

She attended King Charles’s pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace in 2024, with wrists in splints after a fall at Kensington Palace, where she resides with her husband.<\/p>\n

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Princess Michael of Kent has suffered a stroke<\/p>\n

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The princess was carrying several overcoats as she lost her footing on the stairs and fell.<\/p>\n

While the coats supported her landing, she broke several small bones when she put out her hands to stop the fall.<\/p>\n

The injury left her unable to complete simple activities such as brushing her teeth, with doctors warning that any wrong movement could hinder her recovery.<\/p>\n

The fall happened less than a year after her heart surgery, which left her needing frequent rest.<\/p>\n

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The 81-year-old attended King Charles’s pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace in 2024, with wrists in splints<\/p>\n

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Princess Michael celebrated her 81st birthday<\/a> in January, having spent nearly five decades as part of the British Royal Family.<\/p>\n

The former Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz wed Prince Michael at Vienna Town Hall in 1978, just a fortnight after her divorce from English banker Thomas Troubridge was finalised.<\/p>\n

Prince Michael required the late Queen Elizabeth II’s blessing to marry, given his bride was both Catholic and previously married.<\/p>\n

Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Prince Philip’s uncle and a distant relation of the monarch, acted as intermediary to secure royal approval.<\/p>\n

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Princess Michael celebrated her 81st birthday in January<\/p>\n

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The Queen granted permission on one condition: Prince Michael would relinquish his position in the line of succession.<\/p>\n

The couple went on to have two children, Lord Freddie Windsor, now 46, and Lady Gabriella Kingston, 44.<\/p>\n

When Lord Mountbatten presented the Baroness’s impressive aristocratic heritage to the Queen, laying on details of her descent from Charlemagne and various European monarchs, the sovereign offered a wry response: “Well Dickie, she sounds a bit too grand for us.”<\/p>\n

Princess Michael later addressed this remark in a 2000 interview with W magazine, explaining Lord Mountbatten, an enthusiastic genealogist, had “laid it on a bit thick” when describing her lineage.<\/p>\n

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Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent have two children<\/p>\n

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She maintained of all those who had married into the Royal Family since Prince Philip, she possessed more royal blood than any other bride or bridegroom.<\/p>\n

“I was not born a Royal Highness, so technically I am a commoner, but I happen to have a lot of royal blood,” she stated.<\/p>\n

The princess suggested Lord Mountbatten had found the Queen’s quip amusing and repeated it, allowing the story to be weaponised against her.<\/p>\n

Five years after that interview, Princess Michael found herself offering an apology to the Queen following a damaging newspaper sting operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Michael of Kent is understood to be seriously ill after suffering a stroke, with the royal being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,53245],"class_list":{"0":"post-334053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-royal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}