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charlotte-of-wales · 1 month
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Happy 91st birthday to Katharine, Duchess of Kent!
Born on February 22nd 1933, Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley is the fourth child and only daughter of Sir William Worley, 4th Baronet, Lord-lieutenant of North Riding, and his wife Joyce Morgan Brunner, and wife to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
The couple have three children: George, Earl of St Andrews, Lady Helen Taylor, and Lord Nicholas Windsor. In the 90s Katharine stepped down from her royal duties and is now a music teacher.
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sassylittlecanary · 2 months
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In a perfect world, Cary Grant would’ve played Superman in the 1940s.
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Also, Katharine Hepburn would’ve been Lois Lane, because this duo already has my heart.
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aimeedaisies · 1 year
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“Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.” - Catherine, Princess of Wales
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"If we want girls to have the best possible futures in these careers (STEM), we need to make sure they have the skills and qualifications required. More importantly, if we want the best possible future for our country, we need to be using the talents of the whole population." - Princess Anne, Princess Royal
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“I’m not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I’m doing it for myself. I’m one for the ‘You only live once so you should do as much as you can’ sort of thing” - Zara Tindall
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“As someone who firmly believes in the equality of men and women, I feel drawn to your cause and to do what I can to help raise further awareness of your work. To help give voice to women and girls who are being denied their fundamental rights as humans and are being subjected to harm and violence as a result of conflict, to promote those who seek to play a part in finding peace, and to support others as they attempt to rebuild their lives” - Sophie, Countess of Wessex
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"There was nothing that I felt I wanted to hide away from. It was just something that happened in my life. I was always—I wouldn’t say proud of it, but I was glad I did it. I was supported through it as well. The Queen said: “Yes, go and do it,’ so I did. I think The Queen is an astonishing leader of people. She’s just a shining example to us all. And she goes on. It's incredible. She’s nearly 100." - Katharine, Duchess of Kent talking about her change in career to being a school music teacher and her cousin in laws [QEII] acceptance
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"But what ultimately made Princess Margaret so attractive and lovable was that behind the dazzling façade you could find, if you looked for it, a rare softness and sincerity." Peter Townsend talking about Princess Margaret
Wishing these amazing, strong women and many many more around the world a very happy international women’s day! 💪💓
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trexalicious · 1 month
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Happy 91st Birthday to the Duchess of Kent🎂
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ifreakingloveroyals · 7 months
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pretty-little-fools · 3 months
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grandmaster-anne · 1 year
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Katharine, Duchess of Kent Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley ♓ 22 February 1933
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My 19 favorite royal engagement rings in no specific order part 1.
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the-royal-kents · 1 year
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Katharine, the Duchess of Kent with her daughter Lady Helen Taylor née Windsor.
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heir-less · 1 year
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Asked about what she was listening to in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, she said: “I just love music. Something that catches my ear on the radio — I don’t really listen to records. If it makes my feet tap then I’m happy.” She admitted: “I don’t know all their names” when she talked about rap music and the artists she liked, but was able to confirm Ice Cube and Eminem.
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kestrellady · 2 years
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August Reading Wrap-Up
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A few more books this month, but still fewer than the first part of the year. You can definitely tell on my pages graph when we went on vacation and when my husband left on his trip right after.
Books I Actually Rated What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher- 4.5/5 A quick, delightfully creepy retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Kingfisher has a gift for taking characters that should be very tropey and making them feel like real people. And there's a sequel in the works!
Stand Out Books from August Heartstone by Elle Katharine White An homage to Pride and Prejudice but with Dragons! This is classed as YA, but could easily be shelved with adult fantasy, imo. The author does a great job hitting the heart and story beats of Pride and Prejudice while letting the characters be their own people with their own motivations. First in a trilogy, though the others aren't a retelling of anything.
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace This book was... something. I really don't know how to classify it. Somewhere between fantasy and dystopian sci-fi, shelved as YA, but opens with the protagonist in a ritual fight to the death, so 🤷 An incredibly rich mythology that seems to suggest conclusions without actually spelling them out for the reader. Whatever it was, it's going to stick in my brain for a long time and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber First in the Verity Kent series. I love Huber's Lady Darby mysteries, so I picked this one up to scratch the itch until the next one comes out and it's definitely a very different protagonist. These are set just after WWI and it's really fascinating to see a world (and protagonist) that is simultaneously trying to move past a catastrophic war and still dealing with the fallout.
What I'm Reading Now The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson I was thoroughly captivated by Wilkerson's more recent book Caste, so I added this one to the list. It's the story of the Great Migration told primarily through three protagonists that left the South at slightly different times. It does a beautiful job weaving together the broad strokes historical with the incredibly personal. Hopefully I can finish before it goes back to the library in a few days. 🤞
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle Despite being able to quote the movie most of the way through, I'd never read the novel, so this was perfect for the Read Harder challenge. It's... strange. I can hear so many of the lines in the voices from the film, but there are also references that I definitely didn't get as a kid and times the novel about breaks the fourth wall. I'd probably call it a "modern fairy tale" more than just about anything else I've ever read.
What I'm Looking Forward to Next Month I started Marshall Ryan Maresca's Maradaine world with the Constabulary series and only realized at the third book that they're all intertwined, so I'm going back to start from The Thorn of Dentonhill. Crossing my fingers on a few holds coming in soon, especially Ruby Fever, the third Catalina book in Ilona Andrews' Hidden Legacy series, and Fault Tolerance, the last in Valerie Valdes' Chilling Effect series. Nona the Ninth also comes out next month, but the odds of me getting to read it next month are pretty slim.
Book Challenges I'm most of the way through both of the Read Harder books I picked for last month, so the goal is to finish those and two more to get caught back up. I've got either Velvet Was the Night or While Justice Sleeps for (10) Read a political thriller by a marginalized author, but I'm not sure about the other one. I've tentatively got The Song of Achilles down for (3) the Women's Prize longlist, but it's got a ridiculous number of holds on it (like 125 on 21 copies for the ebook despite being a decade old! Seriously people!), so maybe it'll be The Cat Who Saved Books for (2) Set in a Bookstore, instead. For r/Fantasy's Book Bingo, I've got The Oleander Sword on hold, which will cover "Revolutions and Rebellions."
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charlotte-of-wales · 1 month
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happy birthday icon x
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This necklace has been used many, many times over the years. It was seen as early as 1993 in The Three Musketeers on Gabrielle Anwar as Queen Anne. In 1997 it was worn by Justine Waddell as Countess Nordston in Anna Karenina. The following year in 1998, it was seen on Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love, as well as on a courtier in Ever After. In 1999 it was seen in Harem Suaré worn by Maria Gillain as Safiya, and in 2001 by Mira Sorvino as The Princess in Triumph of Love. Lindsay Duncan as Katherine wore the necklace in 2003 in Under the Tuscan Sun, and Lynn Collins was spotted wearing it as Portia in the 2004 adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. In 2005 it was worn by Diana Kent as Lady Essex in HBO’s Elizabeth I. From there, the piece would go on to be used in The Tudors at least three times, once in 2007 and twice in 2009 on Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn, Annabelle Wallis as Jane Seymour, and Rebekah Wainwright as Catherine Brandon, respectively. In 2011 the necklace was worn by Ruta Gedmintas as Ursula Bonadeo in The Borgias, and in 2019, the piece was seen again on Charlotte Hope as Katharine of Aragon in The Spanish Princess. Finally, in 2022 it was worn by Elissa Alloula as Filippa in the episode of The Serpent Queen entitled The Prince. 
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aimeedaisies · 1 year
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Wishing Katherine, Duchess of Kent a very happy 91st birthday! 🎂🎁🎉
Born 22nd February 1933
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The Working Royals of the British Royal Family: A Series
Full name: Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick Title: His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent Place in the line of succession: Forty-first (41) Birth: 9 October 1935 at No. 3 Belgrave Square, London Current Age: 87
The Duke of Kent is older brother to Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra, and is first cousin to both the late Queen Elizabeth II and the late Duke of Edinburgh. Edward captained his regimental ski team in the Army championships, won the Sir James Moncrieff Grierson prize for foreign languages and qualified as an interpreter of French. He married Katharine Worsley in 1961, at York Minster. The couple went on to have four children - George, Helen, Nicholas and Patrick (who was stillborn). They also have ten grandchildren: Edward, Marina, Amelia, Columbus, Cassius, Eloise, Estelle, Albert, Leopold and Louis.
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ifreakingloveroyals · 2 years
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Happy 61st Anniversary Edward and Katharine! (m. 8 June 1961)
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