

George and Marina
Duke and Duchess of Kent
Author: Christopher Warwick
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged: 15 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/28/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, European History
Synopsis
As a young man, voraciously addicted to drugs and sex, with men as much as women, marriage and parenthood for the impetuously wayward playboy prince, with his night-clubbing lifestyle and intimate liaisons, was seen as the only stabilizing influence. Enter the stylish and sophisticated Princess Marina, the cultured, artistic, and multilingual youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and his Russian-born wife, Grand Duchess Yelena Vladimirovna. As Duke and Duchess of Kent, George and Marina were the Crown's most glittering representatives, not least in the aftermath of the abdication of George's adored elder brother, the briefly-reigned King Edward VIII; the man with whom he had not only shared both home and high-flying lifestyles, but who had helped cure him of his addiction to morphine and cocaine.