WhenQueen Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947, the 5-year-old Michael was a page boy in their wedding.
As the decades have whizzed by, however, Michael’s role in the royal family has decreased.
That being said, Michael has come up with a number of strategies to keep his coffers full.
Some of it might even come from less-than-legal sources.
Michael was one ofthe many royals to pursue a military career.
He headed to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1961.
From there, he was dispatched to be a part of the United Nation’s peacekeeping troops.
He spent the first decade of his duties working internationally in Hong Kong, Cyprus, and Germany.
Around this same time, Prince Michael developed an interest in Russian language in culture.
In 1968, Michael passed the examination necessary to become a military translator and interpreter.
This role ostensibly offered Michael a stable source of income over the course of decades.
Considering that he was promoted four times throughout his career, the prince did quite well in the military.
Marie-Christine originally moved to London in 1968 with the goal of becoming an interior designer.
She enrolled in fine and decorative arts courses at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
From there, she took on five years worth of internships.
Her business proved quite successful, attracting important clients such as Moscow’s Baltschug Kempinski hotel.
She is also a published author who has written four non-fiction and three fiction books.
In 1991, she released her debut work, “Cupid and the King.”
He also appeared interested in trading off of some of his international connections something that is highly frowned upon.
The Kents were forced to shut down their business months after the scandal.
Over the years, the couple has saved massive amounts of money by traveling on other people’s dime.
Naturally, when this information came out, many British taxpayers were enraged.
Not everybody felt that they needed to fund the lavish lifestyle of one of the queen’s lesser-known cousins.
It also spent over six-figures on expenses, like car rentals and employee travel.
For this reason, company documents claimed “no liability to [pay] U.K. corporation tax.”
Interestingly, this was not the first time that the Kents' tax status was put into question.
In 2016, Michael expressed excitement at all that the company strove to achieve.
