{"id":689575,"date":"2026-07-13T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:36:15","slug":"prince-michael-of-kent-84-makes-rare-public-outing-at-wimbledon-as-his-wife-continues-to-recover-from-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689575\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Michael of Kent, 84, makes rare public outing at Wimbledon as his wife continues to recover from a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many members of the Royal Family, Prince Michael’s list of godparents reads like a who’s who of the world’s most influential figures: King George VI, King Haakon VII of Norway and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt were among those chosen. Just weeks later, the family suffered a devastating blow when Prince Michael’s father, Prince George, Duke of Kent, was killed in a plane crash near Dunbeath in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Prince Michael of Kent enjoyed a lunch with submarine reservists at the Naval and Military Club earlier this month<\/p>\n

Royal Navy<\/p>\n

At the age of five, Prince Michael had a starring role as a page boy at the wedding of his cousin Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten<\/a>. Educated at Eton, Prince Michael proved something of a linguist, and in addition to being fluent in French, he had a \u2018working knowledge\u2019 of German and Italian and became the first member of the Royal Family to learn Russian, of which he is a qualified interpreter. After Eton, he went to Sandhurst, before serving in the military for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Prince Michael of Kent was forced to give up his place in the line of succession (but was later reinstated) when he married German divorc\u00e9e, Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz, a Catholic who is today known as Princess Michael of Kent, a former interior designer. They were married at a civil ceremony in Vienna<\/a> after receiving Pope John Paul II\u2019s permission. Princess Michael, who has authored multiple books on European Royalty, is a great lover of Siamese and Burmese cats as well as cheetahs (she had a pet as a young girl, chronicled in her book A Cheetah’s Tale).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many members of the Royal Family, Prince Michael’s list of godparents reads like a who’s who of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[229779,98,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-prince-michael-of-kent","tag-royals","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}