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Prince George, first duke of Kent (1902–1942) by Dorothy Wilding, 1934 © Tom Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London

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George, Prince, first duke of Kent (1902–1942), naval and air force officer, was born George Edward Alexander Edmund at York Cottage, Sandringham, on 20 December 1902, the fifth child and fourth son of George V (1865–1936) and Queen Mary (1867–1953). After several years (1912–16) at ...

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Peter Woolridge Townsend (1914–1995) by unknown photographer © News International Newspapers Ltd

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Townsend, Peter Woolridge (1914–1995), air force officer and official in the royal household, was born in Burma on 22 November 1914, into the large family of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Copleston Townsend (b. 1864), an officer in the Indian army and district commissioner in ...