The Duchess of Kent, who has died at the age of 92, carried out her royal duties with the minimum of fuss.
She was best known to most of the public as the elegant woman who presented the trophies at Wimbledon each year, once famously having to comfort a distraught losing finalist.
She became the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism since the Act of Settlement in 1701 - but that was not, perhaps, her most surprising decision.
Recognising that her twin passions were music and children, she quietly withdrew from royal life and took a job as a music teacher at a primary school in Kingston upon Hull.
She even stopped using the title Her Royal Highness. In the staff room she was simply "Kath", and to the children "Mrs Kent".
