Favourite Historical Couples: George V and Queen Mary [¼]
“People only said I was marrying you out of pity & sympathy. That shows how little the world really knows what it is talking about.”
“I am only looking forward to the time when you and I shall be alone at Sandringham. […] I am very sorry that I am still so shy with you, I tried not to be so the other day, but alas failed, I was angry with myself! It is so stupid to be so stiff together and really there is nothing I would not tell you, except that I love you more than anybody in the world, and this I cannot tell you myself, so I write it to relieve my feelings.”
“Thank God we both understand each other, and I think it really unnecessary for me to tell you how deep my love for you my darling is and I feel it growing stronger and stronger every time I see you; although I may appear shy and cold.”
“I saw in you the person I was capable of loving most deeply, if you only returned that love […] I have tried to understand you, and with the happy result that I know now that I do love you, darling girl, with all my heart, and am simply devoted to you. I adore you, sweet May.”
“My darling sweet Tootsums I have been thinking so much of you today, oh, if you only know how I love love you my precious one & how I long be with you again, I shall count the hours till we meet. God bless you my own sweet wife with a kiss for your lovely little face from yr ever most loving & devoted husband.”
- George to Mary, 26th November 1894
“Darling May will be my comfort as she always has been.”
“I found Queen Mary calm and composed, carrying out her duties with quiet competence and dignity, comforting her children, thinking of everyone but herself. But behind the facade of self-control was passionate grief for the husband who has been the center of her life for over forty years.“
- Mabell, Countess of Airlie [after George’s death]
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