Marriage
On 29 November 1934 she married Prince George, Duke of Kent, at Westminster Abbey, London. Her bridesmaids were her first cousins Princesses Irene, Eugenie and Katherine of Greece and Denmark, her maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, her husband's niece Princess Elizabeth of York, and her husband's cousins the Lady Iris Mountbatten and the Lady Mary Cambridge.
The Royal School of Needlework made a quilt as a wedding gift for Princess Marina and the Duke of Kent.
Together the couple had three children:
- Prince Edward of Kent, born 9 October 1935; Duke of Kent from 25 August 1942
- Princess Alexandra of Kent, born 25 December 1936
- Prince Michael of Kent, born 4 July 1942
The Duke of Kent was killed on 25 August 1942, in an aeroplane crash at Eagles Rock, near Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, while on active service with the Royal Air Force. The Duchess, according to royal biographer Hugo Vickers, was "the only war widow in Britain whose estate was forced to pay death duties".
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—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“the mother lies down on her marriage bed
and eats up her heart like two eggs.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)