Queen Victoria came to visit the baby, writing that she was "a very fine one, with pretty little features and a quantity of hair". Princess Victoria Mary ("May") of Teck was born on at Kensington Palace, London, in the same room where Queen Victoria, her first cousin once removed, had been born 48 years and 2 days earlier. Among much else, an ocean liner, a battlecruiser, and a university were named in her honour. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned.
She supported her second son, George VI, until his death in 1952. To her dismay, he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward VIII, ascended the throne. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales.Īs queen consort from 1910, Mary supported her husband through the First World War, his ill health, and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's only surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. She was informally known as "May", after the month of her birth.Īt the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during an influenza pandemic.
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from until 29 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V.īorn and raised in the United Kingdom, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III and a minor member of the British royal family. Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes
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