Prince Michael of Kent with Princess Michael, Lord Frederick and baby Lady Ella Windsor. Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, leaving St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London this morning with their children, Lord Frederick Windsor (2), and Lady Ella Windsor, born four days ago on Shakespeare's birthday. The baby's full names are Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/12

Agency: Press Association

Royal profiles as Prince Michael of Kent and his wife, Princess Michael exchange a word during today's service of thanksgiving in honour of the Queen Mother's 80th birthday in St Paul's Cathedral

Agency: Press Association

Prince and Princess Michael of Kent coaxing a smile from their three month old son Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor after his christening tonight in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. The Queen was among a dozen Royal guests at the family service. Lord Frederick went through it all without as much as a murmur

Agency: Press Association

Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and their three months old son Lord Frederick Windsor with the Queen and other guests after the baby's christening in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, tonight. The group includes, from left: Miss Marina Ogilvy, 12; the Duke and Duchess of Kent and their son Lord Nicholas Windsor, eight; Prince Karl-Johannes zu Schwarzenburg (partly hidden), a godparent; Countess Marianne Rogal a-Koczorowska (glasses), Princess Michael's mother; Miss Andrew Geddes (light suit), a godparent; the Earl of St Andrews, 17, a godparent; Mr Angus Ogilvy; Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Princess Paul of Yugoslavia (turban); and the King and Queen of Greece

Agency: Press Association

Happy Princess Michael of Kent reveals the face of her sleeping son Frederick Michael George David Louis as, escorted by the proudly smiling Prince, she leaves St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, today to return home to Kensington Palace. The baby, whose official title will be Lord Frederick Windsor, was born at St Mary's last Friday

Agency: Press Association

A library picture, taken last month, of expectant mother Princess Michael of Kent, the 33 year old former Austrian Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz with husband Prince Michael whom she married in a 20 minute civil wedding in Vienna last June. The Princess today gave birth to a 7lb boy at Paddington Hospital in London. The child was born at 7.25am and both mother and son were said to be in very good spirits

Agency: Press Association

Princess Michael at premier of "Odd Job". Princess Michael of Kent the former Baroness Marie-Christine Troubridge last night attended the London film premier of "Odd Job". Inspite [sic] of rumours there was no clue to substantiate suggestions that she and Prince Michael have started a family. Prince Michael and his new wife of three months arrived looking happy and relaxed and wearing a fashionable loose fitting black jacket over a long white dress the Princess waved to waiting crowds

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/10

Agency: Camera Press London

Prince Michael of Kent and Austrian Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz were married Friday in the first civil service wedding in the British Royal Family since 41 years. OPS: (left - right) Prince Michael of Kent, his wife Baroness Marie-Christine, Angus Ogilvy and Princess Anne

Agency: UPI

Agency: UPI

Princess Michael of Kent, a former Baroness of Reibnitz, tickles the chin of her newly wed husband Prince Michael of Kent in the garden of the British embassy in Vienna Friday where both had dinner following the civil wedding in the Vienna townhall this afternoon

Agency: Associated Press

Photographer: Kurt Strumpf

Prince Michael of Kent arrives in Vienna where he will marry his Austrian fiancée, Baroness Maria Christine von Reibnitz on Friday 30 June. The civil wedding ceremony will take place in Vienna's city hall. The couple driving from the airport to their hotel in towndown

Agency: UPI

Richmond, Surrey. Prince Michael of Kent and his fiancée, Austrian aristocrat Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz at Thatched Lodge, Richmond Park, today after the announcement of their engagement. The announcement was made after the Queen gave her consent at the Privy Council to the marriage of the 35-year old Prince, 16th in line to the Throne, and the Roman Catholic Divorcee and former wife of merchant banker Mr Thomas Troubridge. The couple plan to marry in Vienna

Agency: Press Association

Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen's cousin, and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, pose together at Thatched House Lodge, home of Princess Alexandra [text missing] was announced today. Note engagement ring on her finger. The Baroness [text missing] married to a merchant banker had her marriage nullified by the Catholic [text missing] weeks ago

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/7

Agency: BIPNA

Photographer: P Skingley

Engagement of Prince Michael of Kent. Prince Michael of Kent and Baroness von Reibnitz, to whose marriage the Queen has today given her consent

Broadcast Date: 31 May 1978

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/9

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Norman Parkinson

Engagement of Prince Michael of Kent. Prince Michael of Kent and Baroness von Reibnitz, to whose marriage the Queen has today given her consent

Broadcast Date: 31 May 1978

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/8

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Norman Parkinson

Combo: Four moments of the accident to Prince Michael of Kent during trials for the four-men bobsled World Championship, today. Left - Right Top: Bob overturning; Prince protecting [text missing]. Cervinia, Italy

Agency: Associated Press

World Four-Men Bob Championship. Combo: left, Prince Michael of Kent, his face smeared with blood, gets first aid here today after his accident. Right: the Prince is taken to a helicopter after being bandaged at Medical Centre. Cervinia, Italy

Agency: Associated Press

Prince Michael in bobsleigh accident. Picture from files dated 20 January 1971, of Prince Michael of Kent in action during trials for the world two-man Bob Championships at Cervinia just over a week ago. The Prince narrowly escaped death today, 28 January, when he overturned during trials for the four-man Bob World Championships also being held at Cervinia, Italy

Broadcast Date: 28 January 1971

Agency: Associated Press

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/6

Agency: Press Association

Broadcast Date: 22 March 1968

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/4

Agency: Brenards

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/5

Agency: Central Press

ITN Reference: ROYAL/MICH/1

Agency: Planet News

Igls, Austria. Prince Michael of Kent one of the competitors at the European four-man bobsled championship held 15 - 16 January here, will pilot for the first time a four-man [text missing]

Agency: Associated Press

Chief Constable Sir John Hermon accompanies the Duke of Kent on his tour of inspection at Garnerville RUC [Royal Ulster Constabulary] training college today

Agency: Pacemaker Limited

Royal Aviator. Air enthusiast the Duke of Kent prepares for the trip of a lifetime in the rear seat of one of the Red Arrows aerobatic team's Hawk advanced aircraft, at Royal Air Force [RAF] Scampton, Lincolnshire, today. The Duke, who was on a one day private visit to the Royal Air Force's Central Flying School, spent some 50 minutes airborne on a familiarisation sortie in the Hawk, piloted by Wing Commander Gavin Mackay

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Kent lays a wreath at Singapore's Kranji War Memorial, in a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Dominic Wong

The Duke of Kent on his visit to the army base in Bessbrook, County Armagh, talks to some of the soldiers who were involved in a shoot-out with IRA gunmen after an ambush last night

Agency: Pacemaker Limited

The Duke and Duchess of Kent being greeted at Hillsborough by Secretary of State Jim Prior and Jane Prior, at the start of the Royal Visit to the Province

Broadcast Date: 4 April 1984

Agency: Pacemaker Limited

The Duke and Duchess of Kent greeted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, on arrival at St Paul's Cathedral today for the Falkland Islands Service

Agency: Press Association

Big Chief Duke of Kent. Red Indian headdress and tomahawk for the Duke of Kent today when he opened the World Travel Market, a travel and tourism exhibition at Olympia in London. They were presented to him by Chief Jose Sierra of the Tigua Indians from Texas during a tour of the exhibition

Agency: Press Association

Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng meeting in Beijing on 7 June with his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent of Britain

Agency: Xinhua Radiophoto

Duchess leaves hospital. On the arm of the Duke, the Duchess of Kent leaves the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London today after seven weeks treatment for nervous strain. The couple were driven to their home in St James's Palace in a chauffeur-driven Ford Granada

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/70

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Kent leaving the Kind Edward VII hospital for Officers in London last night after visiting his wife who had been suffering complications in her four-month pregnancy. He was asked by waiting reporters how the Duchess was and replied quietly: "She's lost the baby"

Agency: Press Association

With 3 children. A bashful Lord Nicholas Windsor, aged five, at London's Heathrow airport this morning as he arrived with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, brother the Earl of St Andrews, 13, and sister Lady Helen Windsor, 11, from Corfu where they have been holidaying

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/69

Agency: Press Association

The Duke and Duchess of Kent pose for photographers outside the British Embassy Thursday during their visit to Washington

Agency: Associated Press

With 3 children. The Kents at Home. The Duke and Duchess with their children, left to right, The Earl of St Andrews, Lady Helen Windsor and Lord Nicholas Windsor, photographed at Coppins, their home in Buckinghamshire. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent are to attend a British trade drive in Copenhagen 1 - 4 May 1972

Broadcast Date: 26 April 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/68

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Barry Lategan

The Kents at Home. The Duke wears the uniform of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers of which he is Colonel-in-Chief, with the Sash and Star of the GCMG [Knight Grand Cross, Order of St Michael and St George]. The Duchess wears a beige silk dress with lace-embroidered shoulders and sleeves, and a diamond tiara. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent are to attend a British trade drive in Copenhagen 1 - 4 May 1972

Broadcast Date: 26 April 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/67

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Barry Lategan

The Kents at Home. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent are to attend a British trade drive in Copenhagen 1 - 4 May 1972

Broadcast Date: 26 April 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/65

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Barry Lategan

Uniformed. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 35 year old cousin of the Queen, on duty in Belfast. The Duke, a Major in the Scots Greys, was among 600 troops rushed to Northern Island on 4 February after the latest outbreaks of violence in Belfast

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/63

Agency: United Press International

A very contented baby in the Duke and Duchess of Kent's family is Lord Nicholas Windsor, born on 25 July. Here he is seen with his parents at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire, today

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/62

Agency: Press Association

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/60

Agency: Camera Press London

Broadcast Date: 4 May 1969

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/56

Agency: Universal Pictoral Press

With family at piano. The Kents at Home. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their children The Earl of St Andrews (born 26 June 1962) and Lady Helen Windsor (born 28 April 1964). They are seen around the piano at Coppins, the Kents' residence in Buckinghamshire

Broadcast Date: 20 May 1966

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/51

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Patrick Lichfield

The Duke and Duchess of Kent reviewed some 3,000 schoolchildren Thursday after formal ceremony making The Gambia the 16th African nation to gain independence. The Duchess, wearing a yellow-blue paisley design chiffon dress, first greeted Girl Guides

Agency: Appho London

The Duchess of Kent, who is expecting her second child next May, watches her husband returning from a training session at St Mortiz where he will be taking part in the army ski championships beginning today. The Duke will be skiing for his regiment, the Royal Scots Greys

Agency: Central Press

Radio picture from Hong Kong today. The Duke of Kent was flung into deep water today when his vessel collided and capsized during the traditional Chinese dragon boat race at Hong Kong. The Duke, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, serving in Hong Kong, was [?] as a "foreign devil" and was rowing near the stern when his boat swerved off course, hit another vessel and gradually sank. Photo shows the Duke of Kent helping to drag the boat ashore after sinking

Broadcast Date: 25 June 1963

Agency: Central Press

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/37

Agency: Camera Press London

Baby prince

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/35

Agency: Central Press

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/28

Agency: MirrorPic