May of Teck

Royal watcher. Royal history lover. Queen Mary fangirl. Royal Jewel Snob. I don’t claim to own any photos I post.

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‘an erect and royal figure in her silver gown crossed with the blue ribbon of the Garter. I saw her as the very symbol of the solidity of the British Monarchy in which she so passionately believed.’ Countess of Airlie, May 12 1937.

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Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, 1891. (Future Queen Mary, Consort of George V)

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Queen Mary and King George V in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 1911

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Queen Mary visits the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies in Wood Street, Woolwich, 1917

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Queen Mary in court dress, photographed by Hay Wrightson, 1931

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Queen Mary when Duchess of York, 1895. She’s wearing the Kensington bow brooch. Photo found in Royal Collection Trust.

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“In the next seven years, Princess May was to have three brothers, the eldest being Prince Adolphus. The Tecks were always in humiliating debt. In 1883, when Princess May was sixteen, they were in such “short street,” with bailiffs set to seize their possessions, that to escape their creditors they had run off to Florence. There they fell upon the charity of relations and friends. Only the Queen’s grace permitted them to return to England two years later to live modestly at White Lodge in Richmond Park.”

- Excerpt from Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, photo of the Teck family, minus Mary’s father. 

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Queen Mary in the early 1940’s

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The Duke and Duchess of York (King George V and Queen Mary) with Prince Edward (the Prince of Wales; King Edward VIII; Duke of Windsor), 1899

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The Duchess of York (Queen Mary) and Prince David (King Edward VII, the Duke of Windsor), 1895

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The Duke of Kent and Queen Mary, Harewood House, 1934

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I’d like to toss it out there that I’m always open to answer questions about the British Royal Family past and present

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King George V and Queen Mary visit the war graves at Terlincthun cemetery in France on 13 May 1922. The King and Queen travelled to France and Belgium in May 1922 during what was known as the ‘King’s Pilgrimage’, visiting the cemeteries and memorials for those who were killed during the First World War. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019.

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Queen Mary Fringe Tiara