The princess who once served as the Queen's bridesmaid has denied reports she is 'hanging up her tiara' after more than 60 years of royal service.
Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin and close confidante of the monarch, celebrated her 82nd birthday in December and was rumoured to be preparing to step down from public life to make way for the younger generation of royals.
But a Palace spokesperson this morning denied there is any truth to the reports, saying there were 'no plans' for the princess to step down.
The princess, who was one of the Queen's eight bridesmaids in 1947, has suffered a series of health issues in recent yeas which have forced her to cut back on public engagements, down last year to just 67.
The palace has dismissed reports that Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin and close confidante of the monarch, is preparing for retirement (pictured with the monarch in 2016)
Princess Alexandra (pictured at Wigmore Hall in London, 1961) celebrated her 82nd birthday in December and was rumoured to be preparing to step down from public duties to make way for the younger generation of royals
The princess, who was one of the Queen's eight bridesmaids in 1947 (sixth left), has suffered a series of health issues in recent yeas which have forced her to cut back on public duties
Once dubbed the 'unsung heroine' of the royal family - and described by a biographer as 'the most efficient working princess in the world - in 2013 she was forced to cancel a series of engagements after developing polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) - and last year suffered a broken arm.
Reports surfaced last week that Alexandra was forced to delay her retirement when Prince Philip stepped down from public duties in 2017.
As a working member of the royal family she maintains a full schedule of engagements and lives in Richmond Park, London at the marital home she once shared with her late husband Sir Angus Ogilvy in 2004.
Today, she is patron of more than 100 different organisations and her closeness to the royal family was demonstrated in 2016 when the Queen held a party to celebrate Alexandra’s charity work and to mark her 80th birthday.
Princess Alexandra with her new husband husband Angus Ogilvy. The pair tied the knot at Westminster Abbey in 1963 and went on to have two children before Angus' death in 2004
Princess Alexandra with the Queen Mother at Royal Ascot, 1963. The princess has denied reports she is 'hanging up her tiara' after more than 60 years of royal service
Princess Alexandra at the Epsom Derby in 1969. Insiders say she remains a favourite among the Queen's wider family thanks to her charm and poise in the face of a series of scandals
Princess Alexndra in London in 1960. Today, she is patron of more than 100 different organisations and her closeness to the royal family was demonstrated in 2016 when the Queen held a party to celebrate Alexandra’s charity work and to mark her 80th birthday
Alexandra in London in 1961. When she first rose to prominence she was something of a 'royal pin-up' and still exudes 'extraordinary glamour' according to royal expert Christopher Wilson
Overseeing organisations including ranging from the British Skin Foundation to the Light Infantry Club and the British Goat Society, her workload includes visiting hospices, meeting Alzheimer’s sufferers and working with the blind.
Insiders say Alexandra remains a favourite among the Queen's wider family thanks to her charm and poise in the face of a series of public scandals.
When she first rose to prominence she was something of a 'royal pin-up' and still exudes 'extraordinary glamour' according to Christopher Wilson in the Express.
A wayward father embroiled in numerous adultery scandals, and a daughter who sold her story to the tabloids, have done little to tarnish her reputation as a stalwart of the royal family.
Alexandra, pictured in London in 2018, remains a close friend of the Queen. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, Princess Alexandra was just three years old and her cousin Princess Elizabeth more than 10 years her senior
Alexandra (pictured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012) remains a favourite among the Queen's wider family thanks to her charm and poise in the face of a series of public scandals
In a rare interview in 2016, Princess Alexandra recalled how a young Queen Elizabeth II - then a princess - gave her hand-me-down outfits when she couldn't buy clothes due to rationing.
'Because of the clothing coupons, it was quite difficult to get hold of clothes,' she explained.
'So they were very kind to me, my cousins – I think it was Princess Elizabeth mainly – they let me have one or two of their dresses.'
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, Princess Alexandra was just three years old and her cousin Princess Elizabeth more than 10 years her senior.
Rags to riches: How Princess Alexandra went from 'relative poverty' to the Queen's confidante
BY CHRISTOPHER WILSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Princess Alexandra is the Queen’s cousin — and, in truth, is more blue-blooded than the monarch, descending as she does from kings through both parents.
Her father — the Queen’s uncle, Prince George, Duke of Kent — was a man for whom the phrase ‘not safe in taxis’ (with either sex) was invented.
Burdened with a libido the size of an elephant, he bedded ladies and the occasional chap before and after his marriage to Princess Marina, grand-daughter of George I of Greece.
The monarch and her cousin at the Royal Festival Hall in 1962. Only days after Princess Alexandra was born — on Christmas Day, 1936 — her father Prince George was discovered ‘in the company’ of Paula Gellibrand, a noted society beauty married to a former MP
Indeed, only days after Princess Alexandra was born — on Christmas Day, 1936 — George was discovered ‘in the company’ of Paula Gellibrand, a noted society beauty married to a former MP, forcing the Prince and the man he cuckolded to issue hot denials. Her father’s biggest crush was Kiki Preston, the morphine-smuggling daughter of a scion of the vastly rich Vanderbilt family in America.
But he never let up his sexual pursuit. Even in the hours leading up to his death in a mysterious plane crash on a Scottish hillside in September 1942, he was playing fast and loose in the apartment of his latest popsy in London’s Grosvenor Square.
Alexandra’s ice-cool mother, Princess Marina, rose above her husband’s infidelity — though, perhaps understand-ably, it took her 20 years to pay a visit to the memorial on the spot where he died as he was travelling to Iceland in a Sunderland flying boat.
Princess Alexandra and fiance Angus Ogilvy after their engagement was announced. Ogilvy was impressionable, and he fell under the spell of the maverick businessman Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland. To cut a long story short, he became a director of his firm Lonrho and was damned as ‘negligent’ in an official report when corruption was exposed
Soon after Alexandra (right) married, rumours emerged that Prince Philip and Alexandra had engaged in an affair. In his biography Philip And Elizabeth, writer Gyles Brandreth confirms that Ogilvy was so dismayed by the tittle-tattle that he raised the matter with the Queen’s private secretary Martin Charteris, seeking advice as to what to do
Meanwhile, Alexandra, together with her brothers Eddie (the Duke of Kent) and Michael (Prince Michael of Kent) grew up in relative poverty at their Buckinghamshire home, Coppins.
No one had anticipated Alexandra’s father might die, even though he was a serving RAF officer, and suddenly all of his princely income dried up.
Alexandra’s first years were scarred by the seemingly endless sales of treasured family possessions, humiliatingly stripped from their home and retrieved from various other royal houses.
They were misleadingly priced up for disposal in the salerooms as ‘surplus to requirement’.
The town house in London’s Belgrave Square, where Alexandra was born ‘to the sound of a lone carol singer in the street’ was sold — but her mother, Princess Marina, was still plunged into the red at the bank.
Faithful friend: The Queen with her cousin Princess Alexandra at Buckingham Palace last month. The ‘girls’ — Queen and Princess — deliberately matched their diamonds, pearls and even the colour and material of their outfits; the hidden message being ‘tonight we’re equals’
The town house in London’s Belgrave Square, where Alexandra was born ‘to the sound of a lone carol singer in the street’ was sold — but her mother, Princess Marina, was still plunged into the red at the bank.
The parsimonious king, George VI, bailed her out with a tiny allowance, but Marina ‘acquired a reputation for meanness’, according to her biographer Audrey Whiting. With no real income, what else could she possibly do?
Against this background, her daughter Alexandra became the first royal princess to be sent away to school — Heathfield, in Sussex — rather than being taught at home.
And when her cousin Elizabeth became Queen on her father’s premature death, Alexandra was catapulted up the royal batting order to become sixth in line to the throne.
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