{"id":338316,"date":"2026-03-10T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:56:10","slug":"princess-michael-of-kent-is-bed-ridden-after-suffering-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338316\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Michael of Kent is \u2018bed-ridden after suffering a stroke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie-Christine\u2019s second husband was Prince Michael of Kent, son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/prince-george\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince George<\/a> and Princess Marina and grandson of King George V. The couple were introduced, the Princess revealed, by Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who explained Marie-Christine\u2019s family lineage to Queen Elizabeth II, leading to the late monarch claiming that the soon-to-be princess might be a little too grand for the House of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/windsor\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windsor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II gave her approval to the union, and Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz married Prince Michael of Kent on 30 June 1978. The bride wore a two-piece cream blazer and skirt suit by Hardy Amies. Her ring, a two-stone sapphire-and-diamond piece, was made from gems belonging to her mother-in-law, Princess Marina of Kent. At the post-wedding ball, Princess Michael changed into a Bellville Sassoon dress, which she paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/the-city\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the City<\/a> of London diamond fringe tiara.<\/p>\n<p>The couple share two children, Lord Frederick Windsor, who is married to Sophie Winkleman, and Lady Gabriella Windsor, whose husband Thomas Kingston died in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael of Kent is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and a first cousin once removed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/king-charles-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles III<\/a>. Although he supports a number of charities and other organisations, including the Royal Club, he is not a working member of the royal family like his older brother, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/duke-of-kent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duke of Kent<\/a>, and sister, Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie-Christine\u2019s second husband was Prince Michael of Kent, son of Prince George and Princess Marina and grandson of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,81450,4827],"class_list":["post-338316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prince-michael-of-kent","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338316","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=338316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}