English aristocrat Prince George, Duke of Kent, was BOTD in 1902. Born at Sandringham in Norfolk, he was the fourth son of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Mary of Teck. He was privately educated before being sent to naval college at Osborne and Dartmouth, and joined the Royal Navy. He remained on active service until 1929, before briefly joining the Foreign Office and Home Office, becoming the first member of the Royal family to work as a civil servant. He was appointed as a personal aide-de-camp to his brothers when they were crowned as King Edward VIII and George VI respectively. At the outbreak of World War Two, he returned to active service, and was promoted to rear admiral in the Navy, major-general in the British Army and air-vice-marshal in the Air Force. A keen aviator, he undertook official visits to Air Force bases to help boost wartime morale. In 1934, he married his second cousin, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, with whom he had three children. He had a confirmed affair with Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, and his lovers are also thought to include the actress Jessie Matthews, writers Cecil Roberts and Noël Coward and possibly Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. He was close friends with socialite and drug addict Kiki Preston, with whom he fathered an illegitimate child and developed a love of morphine and cocaine. He and Preston were also rumoured to have had a threesome with Preston’s lover, Argentinean diplobrat José Uriburu. Less entertainingly, George was also alleged to have shared Edward’s Fascist beliefs and support for the Nazi Party, though little evidence exists to support this. George was killed in an airplane accident in 1942, on route to an Air Force commission in Iceland. He was 39. He was portrayed by Brock Everitt-Elwick and Rollo Weeks in Stephen Poliakoff’s 2003 TV film The Lost Prince, and by John Hopkins in 2013’s Dancing on the Edge, also by Poliakoff. He also appeared as a recurring character in the 2010 revival of TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs, played by Blake Ritson.