Brandishing a pair of oversize scissors, she joked: ‘I’d go anywhere for a hot meal!’
It was a dig at critics, who’d been moaning that the gig was unbecoming of a British royal. But the light-hearted remark also laid bare a more serious truth: that despite their blue-blooded pedigree, the Princess and her husband, Prince Michael, had grown accustomed to being perennially short of cash.
The Prince and Princess Michael of Kent photographed at Nether Lypiatt Manor, their unconventional pursuit of money continues to make headlines
Prince Michael and Putin were joint patrons of an event at Kensington Palace promoting sambo, an obscure Russian martial art (pictured, Prince Michael and Putin in London in 2003)