that lawyers for Meghan had raised Michael’s financial status in legal filings. It also pointed out that unlike Harry, who was stripped of his security team and honorary military titles after he resigned as a senior royal, Michael has held onto those despite never serving as a working royal.
In a statement, Michael’s office denied any impropriety and distanced the prince from the marquess’s comments. “Prince Michael has no special relationship with President Putin,” Michael’s office said in response to theinvestigation. “They last met in 2003 and he has had no contact with him or his office since then. Lord Reading is a good friend, who made suggestions which Prince Michael would not have wanted, or been able, to fulfil.
Still, he followed a path that has become common for Windsor men. After finishing school at Eton, he entered officer training at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and went on to spend two decades in the military. According to Lane, Michael befriended Marie Christine, who was separated from but still married to her first husband, while riding horses in Richmond Park, where Alexandra lives.
Though the union was reportedly encouraged by Lord Louis Mountbatten, Philip’s close relative and adviser, an array of challenges stood in their way. At the time, the queen was still required by law to consent to many of her closest relatives’ marriages, and as the head of the Church of England, she was previously reluctant to give approval to relationships when one of the partners had been divorced.
Though the queen didn’t attend their wedding, she did give Marie Christine the ability to use the HRH title, a move that Lane described as “a special mark of royal approval.” The next year, the queen gave them a “grace and favor” apartment in Kensington Palace, and, according to a 2003report, it was supposed to be rent-free for the rest of their lives. That came to an end in 2002, following
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