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For Prince George, Duke of Kent, there was enchantment in the bridled power of aircraft engines, in the freedom of flying. Forbidden to fly by his father in 1928, he was a flyer by 1930 and since then had flown far. In war, he was pleased to wear the R.A.F. uniform, to serve as welfare officer, if nothing better. In the R.A.F. he was among friends. One of them, Pilot Officer Michael Strutt, Lord Belper's second son (who had married a pretty American motor heiress, Arielle Frazer), accompanied him everywhere as his aide-de-camp.
Pilot Officer Strutt was with him last week when, flying to Iceland, his plane crashed into a Scottish mountain, shattered and burned. As usual, the Air Ministry catalogued him "killed on active service." He would not have wanted a better epitaph.