NAMES IN THE NEWS : Queen’s Pregnant Kin Will Wed

Marina Ogilvy, a cousin of the queen who set the royal family on its ear by refusing to marry the father of her expected child, is getting married after all, a family spokeswoman said Sunday.

Ogilvy said in interviews with newspapers and television in October that her parents had tried to trick her into an abortion, had disowned her and cut off her $160,000 trust fund and $450 monthly allowance.

She also said she had written a letter to Queen Elizabeth II to ask her to intercede with her mother, Princess Alexandra, the queen’s cousin.

Ogilvy is 24th in line for the throne.

Ogilvy, 23, who is five months pregnant, will marry her 26-year-old boyfriend, photographer Paul Mowatt, at a south London registry office on Friday, spokeswoman Mona Mitchell said.

“Marina’s parents did know about the possibility of them being married on Friday, but they hoped it would be a quiet, private affair,” Mitchell said.

Ogilvy, who rarely attends royal family events, made a tearful plea through a BBC-TV talk show host to her mother last fall.

“I want you to really stand by me and love me as a mother,” she said in the taped interview.

“We believe we are doing the right thing, and it’s what we want to do,” she said. For his part, Mowatt said Oglivy should not be pushed into a “shotgun wedding.”

The couple said at that time the baby was due in May, and they planned to marry afterward.

The princess and Ogilvy issued a statement after the interview last fall, saying Oglivy was “always welcome at her home.”