The Duke of Kent has continued a busy month of royal engagements, just weeks after the passing of his wife, the Duchess of Kent . According to the Court Circular, on Wednesday, Prince Edward, 90, attended a lunch at the Rubens at the Palace Hotel, just a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, where he commemorated the 75 th anniversary of the Polish Cultural Foundation.

It comes after he celebrated his milestone 90 th birthday at Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club in South Kensington, on 9 October. The Duke has a long-standing connection with Polish culture – his parents, Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, opened the club in 1940.

After the Second World War, George and Marina offered the Polish noble family Koziell-Poklewski to stay in the

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