The Duchess of Kent is the title given to the wife of the Duke of Kent.
Five women have held the title:
- Jemima (died 1728), daughter of Thomas Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe, first wife of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
- Sophia (died 1748), daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, second wife of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
- Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786–1861), wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, mother of Queen Victoria
- Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (1906–1968), wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent
- Katharine, Duchess of Kent (born 1933), wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (present incumbent)
Famous quotes containing the words duchess of, duchess and/or kent:
“Duchess of York. Good madam, be not angry with the child.
Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
And I shall die an old Parisian.”
—Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)