Kiki Preston (cont.)
Known as “the girl with the silver syringe” and part of the notoriously hedonistic Happy Valley set in colonial-era Kenya, Preston’s influence on the young Prince would see him become a willing participant of her drug-fueled lifestyle, soon becoming addicted to cocaine and morphine and embroiled in numerous scandalous sexual relations despite being married to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.
So enamored (and addicted) was Prince George with his American lover and the lifestyle she afforded him that his brother Edward would eventually have to intervene and force the pair apart, however, not before he apparently fathered an illegitimate son.
The lives of both the Prince and the socialite were cut short, with the Prince dying in a military air-crash in suspicious circumstances on 25 August 1942 and Preston throwing herself out of a window of her fifth-floor apartment in the Stanhope Hotel of New York City just four years later on December 23, 1946.
