The University of Kent is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its royal charter on 4 January 1965 and the following year Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was formally installed as the first Chancellor.
The School of Arts Building at Kent's Canterbury campus; it is one of several buildings constructed by the university in recent years
The shops at the Canterbury campus, with the Kent Union offices housed in the offices above.
View from Pier Road
Medway Building at Medway campus
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was a Greek princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, and a granddaughter of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. Princess Marina married Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in 1934. They had three children: Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra, and Prince Michael.
Marina at the coronation of George VI in 1937
Princess Marina, right, with her sisters Princess Olga, left, and Princess Elizabeth, centre.
Princess Marina on her wedding day
Portrait by Philip de László, 1934
