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P.R. 13
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION
SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Monday, October 16, 1972
H.R.H. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, THE HON. MRS. ANGUS OGILVY, G.C.V.o.
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra was born on Christmas Day
1936, second child of Prince George and Princess Marina, the Duke and
Duchess of Kent. Her last name commemorates her birthday: she was
christened Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel.
Princess Alexandra was five years old when her father was killed
in a flying accident on active service during the second world war. She
and her two brothers were brought up by their mother at Coppins, their
country home in the Buckinghamshire village of Iver; later she was a
pupil at Heathfield, a girls' boarding school at Ascot first British
princess to be given a normal school career. In the winter of 1953-54 she
went to Paris, where she stayed with the family of M. le Comte de Paris,
attended a finishing school and studied French and music.
After her return home Her Royal Highness began to undertake
official engagements, took a short nursing course at the Great Ormond Street
(London) Hospital for Sick Children, and accompanied her mother on two
overseas tours, to Canada (1954) and to Latin America (1959). In 1959,
on the occasion of Her Majesty the Queen's Canadian tour, the Princess was
appointed for the first time a Counsellor of State.
The same