Who was the prince who kept saying "Offergotseck"?

Question

Perhaps a descendant of Q Victoria, and/or a Danish prince? I read about him in a hardback [1970s?] on minor royalty. When his wife complained to him about lack of money and suggested he write to the Queen, his full reply was "Offergottseck, Lilibet has her own family and her own worries"

Answer 1

That would be Price Michael off Kent and his wife who is known as 'Princess Pushy'. They have a reputation for meanness and she is quoted as saying 'I would open a public toilet for a hot meal.'

In your quote 'Offergottseck' would be 'Oh, for God's sake.'

Lillibet is the Royal Family's nickname for Queen Elizabeth.

Here's a bit about Michael. Note the bit about money.

Prince Michael of Kent, GCVO (Michael George Charles Franklin Windsor; born 4 July 1942) is a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of King George V.

Prince Michael of Kent does not regularly carry out royal duties on behalf of his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II. Instead, he manages his own consultancy business, and undertakes various commercial work around the world. He has also presented some television documentaries on the royal families of Europe. He is named after the short-reigning last Tsar of Russia, Michael Alexandrovich, to whom he is related.

Early life
Prince Michael of Kent was born on 4 July 1942, at Iver, Buckinghamshire. His father was The Duke of Kent, the fourth-eldest son of George V and Queen Mary. His mother was The Duchess of Kent (née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark), a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. As a grandchild of a British sovereign, he was styled as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the prefix His Royal Highness, thus styled His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent.

At his christening, on 4 August 1942, one of his godparents was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then the President of the United States of America, the others being King George II of Greece, King Haakon VII of Norway, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lady Patricia Ramsay, The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, The Crown Princess of Greece and The Duke of Gloucester. His father, the Duke of Kent, was killed in an aeroplane crash near Caithness, Scotland on 25 August 1942, a few weeks after his son's christening.

Royal Family

HM The Queen
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
HRH Prince William of Wales
HRH Prince Henry of Wales
HRH The Duke of York
HRH Princess Beatrice of York
HRH Princess Eugenie of York
HRH The Earl of Wessex
HRH The Countess of Wessex
Lady Louise Windsor
HRH The Princess Royal
HRH The Duke of Gloucester
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
HRH The Duke of Kent
HRH The Duchess of Kent
HRH Prince Michael of Kent
HRH Princess Michael of Kent
HRH Princess Alexandra

Educated at Sunningdale School and Eton College, Prince Michael entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in January 1961, where he was commissioned into the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own), in 1963. He saw service in Germany, Hong Kong, and Cyprus, where his squadron formed part of the UN peacekeeping force of 1971. Subsequent tours of duty, during a military career that spanned twenty years, included a number of appointments on the Defence Intelligence Staff. He retired from the army, with the rank of Major, in 1981.

In 1994, Prince Michael was made Honorary Commodore of the Royal Naval Reserve and, in 2002, he was made Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Benson. In addition, Prince Michael is President of SSAFA (Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families' Association) Forces Help, and of the Royal Patriotic Fund. He is also Colonel-in-Chief of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment in Canada.

Royal duties
As the third child of George V's fourth son, it was not expected that Prince Michael of Kent would undertake royal and official duties. Prince Michael has never received a parliamentary annuity, or an allowance from the Privy Purse. Despite this, both his elder brother, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and his sister, Princess Alexandra, carry out official royal duties, and receive parliamentary annuities. As a member of the Royal Family, however, the Prince does receive VIP treatment wherever he goes. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office arranges for the Prince to receive VIP welcomes whenever he travels abroad, and he has use of British Embassy staff when required. The Prince was also given a grace and favour apartment at Kensington Palace upon his marriage in 1978.

Nevertheless, Prince Michael of Kent has represented the Queen at state funerals in India, Cyprus and Swaziland and, with his wife, Princess Michael of Kent, represented the Queen at the independence celebrations in Belize, and at the Coronation of King Mswati III of Swaziland. Prince Michael also supports a large number of different charities and organisations - he is Commonwealth President of the Royal Life Saving Society.

His patronages include:

the Harefield Research Foundation,
the Children's Fire and Burns Trust,
First Gear and
the World Monuments Fund (UK).
SSAFA Forces Help,
the National Eye Research Centre,
the RAC Foundation,
the Kennel Club
Brooklands Museum Trust

Commercial
Given that the Prince does not receive any income from his royal duties, he has the Queen's permission to earn a living from commercial enterprise. As such Prince Michael manages his own consultancy business, and undertakes business throughout the world. He is also a qualified interpreter of Russian.


Reference style His Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Sir
On 30 June 1978, Prince Michael was married, at a civil ceremony, at the Rathaus, Vienna, Austria, to Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, the only child of the now-deceased Silesian nobleman Baron Gunther Hubertus von Reibnitz, and his also-deceased Hungarian-born ex-wife, Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walpurga Bernadette, Countess von Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár.

The Kents' marriage was controversial because the Baroness was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a divorcée. She was previously married to banker Thomas Troubridge; they separated in 1973, divorced in 1977, and had their marriage annulled a year later, two months before her marriage to Prince Michael. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, which governs the laws of the succession to the British throne, Prince Michael forfeited his place in the line of succession through marriage to a Roman Catholic.

However, his wife became, and remains, a Princess of the United Kingdom, and is styled Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent (not Princess Marie-Christine, since she is not a princess in her own right, but only by right of marriage). Prince and Princess Michael of Kent have two children, both of whom remain in line to the throne because they are not Roman Catholics, having been raised as members of the Church of England:

Lord Frederick Windsor, born April 6, 1979
Lady Gabriella Windsor, born April 23, 1981

Prince and Princess Michael of Kent have received negative news stories in the media in the past. These have centred on accusations that the couple exploit their royal status for commercial gain. When it was revealed that the couple only pay a rent of £69 per week (although other sources state the figure as £76) for the use of their apartments at Kensington Palace, a committee of MPs demanded they be evicted. Critics paid little attention to the fact that this arrangement reflects the royal duties which the couple undertake, without parliamentary annuity.


Russia
Prince Michael has a strong interest in Russia, and is noted for his remarkable physical resemblance to Tsar Nicholas II. When the Tsar and his family were re-buried in Russia, it was Prince Michael who represented Britain. Prince Michael speaks fluent Russian, and holidays there frequently. In the novel Icon, by Frederick Forsyth, the Monarchy in Russia is restored, with Prince and Princess Michael as Tsar and Tsarina.

Title
His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent (4 July 1942–4 July 1992)
His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, KCVO (4 July 1992–2 June 2003)
His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, GCVO (2 June 2003–
Honours
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (elevated from Knight Commander)

Honorary military appointments
Honorary Rear Admiral, Royal Naval Reserve
Colonel-in-Chief, The Essex and Kent Scottish
Commodore-in-Chief, Maritime Reserves

Answer 2

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