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The Duchess of City had a great impact on Martina Navratilova (Picture: Getty)
The influence of Martina Navratilova, the legend of tennis by the Late Duchess of Kent, will probably never be forgotten. Buckingham Palace announced that Katharine died at the age of 92.
A official announcement was also made on the official website of the royal family and the flags in public buildings have been reduced to the semi -pole. Duchess’s important role in the tournament, which will help strengthen the extraordinary heritage of Late Royal, nine times after a very emotional shopping, Wimbledon champion Navratilova, which helps to re -unite Navratilova with his family. Navratilova, 68, won the first Wimbledon title in 1978 at the age of 21. The flawed choice of the tennis star was encouraged by the restrictions of the communist regime on his career, but he did not tell his family before he explicitly declared his flaw in the 1975 US Open.
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Navratilova explained at a press conference: “They wanted me to stay more at home with Czech officials and have more relationships.
Tennis ICON and EX-BBC server Sue Barker announced in her memoirs ‘Wimbledon: A Personal History’ The Duchess of Kent’s interaction with Navratilova during Wimbledon made it easier to convene a heartfelt gathering after the participation of the royal family, Navratilova’s mother received permission to join Wimbledon the following year.
“Martina was very close to Jana, but she had to leave without saying goodbye, and she had to leave without knowing when she was going to see her again.”
“When he was presented with a cup by the Duchess of Kent in 1978, Martina told him a little bit of the political situation and why he could not share the dream he had been fed with his family for a long time, and he promised to help Duchess.
Navratilova spoke to the Duchess of City after winning Wimbledon in 1978 (Picture: Getty)
“The following year, the Duchess of City intervened in his name and asked the Czech government to give Martina a visa to her mother to watch her play. Jana was allowed to visit each other for the first time for four years. Imagine how overwhelming it should be.”
In the 2017 BBC documentary, Our Wimbledon, Navratilova explained how he helped his family after Duchess’s speeches in the iconic tournament. “Duchess helped buy [my mother’s] Visa, “he said according to Barker Daily mail.
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“Leaving his family as” the most difficult thing I have to deal with “, he added:” After that, he plays a match, comes out, a piece of cake. I didn’t know if I would see my family again. I didn’t know if I would see them alive.
Navratilova said how a big role he plays in seeing his mother’s mother again (Picture: Getty)
“I was stateless when I won my first Wimbledon. [my family] We were able to watch because Czech TV did not show. They showed Wimbledon until I started to win, and then they didn’t. That’s what people knew that I was in the finals – they didn’t show that. “
Nevertheless, Navratilova’s family had the chance to see the victorious moment from Pilsen, who was close to the German border where the match was shown on television. And a year later he saw that they were reunited in Wimbledon.
Navratilova, “My mother ‘came to 79. Desert Island discs In 2012.
Duchess, depicted with Steffi Graf in Wimbledon, was a big tennis fan (Picture: Getty)
“So they apparently allowed my family to go out and made a concession and left my mother to Wimbledon.”
In 1980, after leaving five years, Navratilova experienced tears with his mother, stepfather and little sister in the United States because they were given a one -year visa.
Argue Washington PostHe said: “I think it was like any scene that people have met with their long -standing relatives at the airport. Numerous hugs and kisses and crying and crying. But of course it was very special to me.”
The details of the Funeral Duchess of Kent will be announced in the coming days. Her husband Prince Edward survived by the Duke of Kent and three children.
