Kent Sent

First member of British royalty to fly the Atlantic in a bomber, H.R.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 38, the youngest brother of King George VI, landed in Ottawa last week, where he was welcomed by the Earl of Athlone after a nine-hour hop in a four-engined, American-built Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Purpose: a six-week coast-to-coast tour inspecting the progress of the monster British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In the R.A.F., the Duke holds the rank of Air Commodore on the staff of the Inspector General.

At the coronation of his father and mother in 1910, seven-year-old Prince George was bored. Reaching over to tickle his solemn-faced sister Princess Mary, now the Princess Royal, he slipped off his seat and plopped to the floor. When Mary stooped over to pick him up, her coronet fell off. The Prince of Wales (now Governor of the Bahamas) unsnarled the confusion by fielding the coronet, restoring it to his sister's head and threatening to punch George's nose if he did not behave.

Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta.

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