Mary Riddell, in this sympathetic yet analytical book, addresses the possible affect on the young Katherine Worsley of parents who may have steered her too hard towards a royal marriage when their daugther had clearly been strongly attached elsewhere. Katherine Worsley's marriage in 1961 to the Duke of Kent plunged her into a life for which she was ill-prepared. However she made a staunch soldier's wife for the Duke and came to endure the shadow of her formidable mother-in-law, Princess Marina. But as her children grew up - ...
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Mary Riddell, in this sympathetic yet analytical book, addresses the possible affect on the young Katherine Worsley of parents who may have steered her too hard towards a royal marriage when their daugther had clearly been strongly attached elsewhere. Katherine Worsley's marriage in 1961 to the Duke of Kent plunged her into a life for which she was ill-prepared. However she made a staunch soldier's wife for the Duke and came to endure the shadow of her formidable mother-in-law, Princess Marina. But as her children grew up - particularly after a miscarriage and a termination - such as patronage of the LTA and appearances at Wimbledon she still relished, but she often looked like a haunted, hunted woman. Increasinly reticent about public appearances, worn and dispirited, the Duchess was finally diagnosed as suffering from ME - an illness from which the Duchess has since made a recovery. But the greatest evidence of her inner crises was her conversion to the Roman Catholic church in 1992 - since when she has regained much of her calm and public dignity. However, the Duchess remains a complex woman, riven with her own demons and perhaps never quite at ease with the Royal Family. Other complexities and paradoxes of the Duchess's life are similarly scrutinised, as is her friendship with the late Princess Diana.
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Before Diana, there was Katharine. Each in her own way struggled against the results of an unfortunate choice, but struggle they did. Katharine Kent, as she now wishes to be called, spent a happpy childhood idolized by her father, before slipping into what her family considered an advantageous marriage and her future mother-in-law deplored. Carrying the weight of physical and mental illness, the duchess became at great personal cost what the London Tablet referred to as "the nicest of the royals." This account, objective and somber, could have been better written, but the character of this remarkable woman carries her into the heart of the reader in spite of its repetitive and rather uninspired style.
