Edward and Katharine, Duke & Duchess of Kent, their family

[basilforever]

Why on earth do they give themselves all these fake titles? 'Prince and Princess Frankopan'. It sounds rather ridiculous and is just kind of inviting ridicule.

Does anyone have any decent pictures of Paola?

I agree that it all sounds very confusing about these so-called Croatian 'royalty'.

[Leuchtenberg]

Does the family have any pretentions towards being  Highnesses or Serene Highnesses in addition to being Princes and Princesses?


Oh heck, maybe they should just go all out and use the initials of HIH.   

[basilforever]

I don't think so. They appear to me to be a bit ridiculous. Apparently their families relation to this Frankopan goes back to the 1100s or something like that. We probably all have royal connections somewhere going back that far if we are European.

[bookworm857158367]

They appear to define the word "pretentious." I recently discovered one of my many times great-grandfathers had some sort of a title in France. By this family's logic, I could resume his name and my brother could start calling himself a marquis because our ancestor was one circa 1680. Never mind that the rest of our ancestors were farmers, peasants, teachers and the like.

[Marlene]

They adopted a title that became extinct in the 1600s.  They are not Frankopans in the male line.

I don't think so. They appear to me to be a bit ridiculous. Apparently their families relation to this Frankopan goes back to the 1100s or something like that. We probably all have royal connections somewhere going back that far if we are European.

[CHRISinUSA]

LOL!  my family also once held some sort of lowly noble title in Germany - and there is still a castle there by the family name.  But alas, my ancestors were accused of horse theviery and run out of town several centuries ago.  Maybe I too should dig up and adopt the appropriate title.  

For that matter, shouldn't we all?

[ChristineM]

I have a familial link with rather a famous Scottish duke - unfortunatley on the 'wrong side of the blanket'.   (And don't ask me to explain - anyone who doesn't understand, must find out for themselves.)

tsaria

[Marlene]

oh, those wrong sides of the blanket stories   

I married a king, and my maternal great-grandmother was a von

I have a familial link with rather a famous Scottish duke - unfortunatley on the 'wrong side of the blanket'.   (And don't ask me to explain - anyone who doesn't understand, must find out for themselves.)

tsaria

[Arleen_Ristau]

To me, the wrong side of the blanket stories are far more interesting than the right side......

A

[basilforever]

The wrong side of the blanket just means illegitimate.

Well I have connections to the Dutch nobility several hundred years ago. I should now demand to be known as Felicia, Princess of Orange, or at least Countess by this family's logic.

[TampaBay]

I'm sorry but IMO Lord Nicholas Windsor looks absolutely scary in this picture!!!

Is he going bald?  

He was such a lovely child what happened?

Tampaay

[Taren]

A picture of the couple--a large, good one. 

http://members.boardhost.com/royalinsight/msg/1159964729.html

I'm sorry but IMO Lord Nicholas Windsor looks absolutely scary in this picture!!!

Is he going bald? 

He was such a lovely child what happened?

Tampaay

I'm glad you said it, because I didn't want to!

My first thought was: the Windsor flappers.

[Grace]

I agree -- he has certainly...changed...since he was a child.  He and his elder brother look very much alike, I think.  The Kent children were beautiful, blonde and blue-eyed when they were young.  Only the daughter, Lady Helen, appears to have retained that appearance into adulthood.   

[grandduchessella]

Well, keeping in mind the wishes of the FA regarding posting about living members of royal families, I will say this about the Kents--Alexandra inherited much of her mother's beauty, while Michael looks much like his relatives GV and NII. What happened with Nicholas's father, the current Duke of Kent? He's the son of one of the loveliest princesses of her day and one of the best looking of princes, yet he's always been the 'plain' one of the Kent family. Nicholas seems to have inherited his ears and forehead--and hairline.

[ashdean]

Well, keeping in mind the wishes of the FA regarding posting about living members of royal families, I will say this about the Kents--Alexandra inherited much of her mother's beauty, while Michael looks much like his relatives GV and NII. What happened with Nicholas's father, the current Duke of Kent? He's the son of one of the loveliest princesses of her day and one of the best looking of princes, yet he's always been the 'plain' one of the Kent family. Nicholas seems to have inherited his ears and forehead--and hairline.

Unfortunatley nobody can choose their parentage, Genetic baldness is carried through the generations..just like eye colour or a prominent nose..Often too very goodlooking couples do not have physically beautiful children,while ugly ducklings can bring forth a swan..