Fifty-five years before a car crash took the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, another shocking death saw the Royal Family lose one of its brightest and most popular younger princes under equally devastating circumstances.
On 25 August 1942, Prince George, Duke of Kent, boarded a Sunderland flying boat at Invergordon RAF base in the Scottish Highlands, on a scheduled mission to Iceland. As an air commodore, he had already flown more than 60,000 miles over the previous year, on goodwill visits to Canada and the USA. Tragically, the much-loved brother of King George VI, would never reach Reykjavik.
At 1.42pm, the plane ploughed into
