Illegitimate Child Allegations
It has been alleged for years that American publishing executive Michael Temple Canfield (1926 – 1969) was the illegitimate son of Prince George and Kiki Preston. According to various sources, both Prince George's brother, Duke of Windsor and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, Canfield's second wife, shared this belief.
Canfield was born in 1926 and was the adopted son of Cass Canfield, American publisher of Harper and Row. Michael Canfield served in the US Marine Corps in World War II and was wounded at Iwo Jima. He graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and worked as London representative of Harper and Row. He married twice, first to Lee Radziwill, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, in 1953 (divorced in 1958) and then to Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, in 1960. Canfield died on December 20, 1969, of heart attack, while on a New York-London flight, at the age of 43.
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