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Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 ? 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from the accession of her husband, King George V, in 1910 until his death in 1936. She was concurrently Empress of India.
Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, who was a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after her birth month.
At 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. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's only surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales.
As queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the First World War, his ill health, and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war. After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward VIII, ascended the throne; but to her dismay, he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned. Among much else, an ocean liner, a battlecruiser, and a university were named in her honour.
Early life
Princess Victoria Mary ("May") of Teck was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London, in the same room where Queen Victoria, her first cousin once removed, had been born 48 years earlier. Queen Victoria came to visit the baby, writing that she was "a very fine one, with pretty little features and a quantity of hair". May would become the first British queen consort born in Britain since Catherine Parr. Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (created Countess von Hohenstein in the Austrian Empire). Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III and the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel.
She was baptized in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 1867 by Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury. From an early age, she was known to her family, friends and the public by the diminutive name of "May", after her birth month.
May's upbringing was "merry but fairly strict". She was the eldest of four children, and the only daughter, and "learned to exercise her native discretion, firmness, and tact" by resolving her three younger brothers' petty boyhood squabbles. They played with their cousins, the children of the Prince of Wales, who were similar in age. She grew up at Kensington Palace and White Lodge, in Richmond Park, which was granted by Queen Victoria on permanent loan, and was educated at home by her mother and governess (as were her brothers until they were sent to boarding schools). The Duchess of Teck spent an unusually long time with her children for a lady of her time and class, and enlisted May in various charitable endeavors, which included visiting the tenements of the poor.
Although May was a great-grandchild of George III, she was only a minor member of the British royal family. Her father, the Duke of Teck, had no inheritance or wealth and carried the lower royal style of Serene Highness because his parents' marriage was morganatic. The Duchess of Teck was granted a parliamentary annuity of £5,000 and received about £4,000 a year from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, but she donated lavishly to dozens of charities. Prince Francis was deeply in debt and moved his family abroad with a small staff in 1883, in order to economize. They traveled throughout Europe, visiting their various relations. For a time they stayed in Florence, Italy, where May enjoyed visiting the art galleries, churches, and museums. She was fluent in English, German, and French.
In 1885, the family returned to London and lived for some time in Chester Square. May was close to her mother, and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organised parties and social events. She was also close to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the Crown Princess of Sweden helped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in Germany until her death in 1916.
Engagements
In 1886, May was a debutante in her first season, and was introduced at court. Her status as the only unmarried British princess who was not descended from Queen Victoria made her a suitable candidate for the royal family's most eligible bachelor, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, her second cousin once removed and the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
On 3 December 1891 at Luton Hoo, country residence of Danish Ambassador Christian Frederick de Falbe, Albert Victor proposed marriage to May and she accepted. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fondness for her, as well as to her strong character and sense of duty. However, Albert Victor died six weeks later, in a recurrence of the worldwide 1889?90 influenza pandemic, before the date was fixed for their wedding.
Albert Victor's brother, Prince George, Duke of York, now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during their shared period of mourning, and Queen Victoria still thought of her as a suitable candidate to marry a future king. The public was also anxious that the Duke of York should marry and settle the succession. In May 1893, George proposed, and May accepted. They were soon deeply in love, and their marriage was a success. George wrote to May every day they were apart and, unlike his father, never took a mistress.
May married Prince George, Duke of York, in London on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The new Duke and Duchess of York lived in York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, and in apartments in St James's Palace. York Cottage was a modest house for royalty, but it was a favorite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John.
The children were put into the care of a nanny, as was usual in upper-class families at the time. The first nanny was dismissed for insolence and the second for abusing the children. This second woman, anxious to suggest that the children preferred her to anyone else, would pinch Edward and Albert whenever they were about to be presented to their parents so that they would start crying and be speedily returned to her. On discovery, she was replaced by her effective and much-loved assistant, Charlotte Bill.
Sometimes, Mary and George appear to have been distant parents. At first, they failed to notice the nanny's abuse of the young princes Edward and Albert, and their youngest son, Prince John, was housed in a private farm on the Sandringham Estate, in Bill's care, perhaps to hide his epilepsy from the public. However, despite Mary's austere public image and her strait-laced private life, she was a caring mother in many respects, revealing a fun-loving and frivolous side to her children and teaching them history and music.
Edward wrote fondly of his mother in his memoirs: "Her soft voice, her cultivated mind, the cozy room overflowing with personal treasures were all inseparable ingredients of the happiness associated with this last hour of a child's day ... Such was my mother's pride in her children that everything that happened to each one was of the utmost importance to her. With the birth of each new child, Mama started an album in which she painstakingly recorded each progressive stage of our childhood". He expressed a less charitable view, however, in private letters to his wife after his mother's death: "My sadness was mixed with incredulity that any mother could have been so hard and cruel towards her eldest son for so many years and yet so demanding at the end without relenting a scrap. I'm afraid the fluids in her veins have always been as icy cold as they are now in death."
As Duke and Duchess of York, George and May carried out a variety of public duties. In 1897, she became the patron of the London Needlework Guild in succession to her mother. The guild, initially established as The London Guild in 1882, was renamed several times and was named after May between 1914 and 2010. Samples of her own embroidery range from chair seats to tea cozies.

On 22 January 1901, Queen Victoria died, and May's father-in-law ascended the throne. For most of the rest of that year, George and May were known as the "Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York". For eight months they toured the British Empire, visiting Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, South Africa and Canada. No royal had undertaken such an ambitious tour before. She broke down in tears at the thought of leaving her children, who were to be left in the care of their grandparents, for such a long time.
Princess of Wales (1901?1910)
On 9 November 1901, nine days after arriving back in Britain and on the King's sixtieth birthday, George was created Prince of Wales. The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlborough House. As Princess of Wales, May accompanied her husband on trips to Austria-Hungary and Württemberg in 1904. The following year, she gave birth to her last child, John. It was a difficult labor




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British monarch, Queen consort of King George V. The daughter of the impoverished Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, her full name and title at birth was Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck, popularly known as Princess May. She was engaged to Prince Albert Victor, elder son of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1891. She accepted his proposal only because it was expected of her. After the prince's sudden death, she became engaged to his brother, Prince George, Duke of Clarence, with whom she had much more in common. They were married on July 6, 1893 at St. James Palace. Theirs was an exceptionally successful marriage, producing one daughter and five sons. Upon Edward VII's accession in 1901, the couple became Prince and Princess of Wales. Edward died in 1910, and they were crowned King and Queen on June 22, 1911. Widowed in 1936, Queen Mary lived to see her eldest son, Edward VIII abdicate the throne, her son George VI reign successfully, and her eldest granddaughter, Elizabeth, come to the throne in 1952. Regarded as the matriarch of the royal family, her funeral and lying-in-state created unprecedented scenes of public mourning.

Bio by: Kristen Conrad

Victoria married King George V Frederick Ernest Albert Saxe Couburg Gotha And Windsor 6 Jul 1893, Saint James's Palace, London, England, United Kingdom. King (son of Edward of United Kingdom, VII and Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom) was born 3 Jun 1865, Marlborough House, Westminster, Middlesex London, England; was christened 7 Jul 1865, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England; died 20 Jan 1936, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; was buried 28 Jan 1936, St George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

1. George VI Albert Frederick Arthur George Winsor was born 14 Dec 1895, York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; was christened 17 Feb 1896, St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; died 6 Feb 1952, Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; was buried 15 eb 1952, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England.

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Father of Queen Mary. Francis was relatively poor, which made him an unpopular choice for European princesses. He eventually married upwards into a richer family to Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (a.k.a. Fat Mary), a granddaughter of King George III, as she too had trouble finding a suitable husband due to her unattractivness. Despite their modest incomes, the Tecks built up large debts and fled to Europe in 1883. They returned two years later and their daughter, Princess "May", was engaged to Prince Albert, Duke of Clarence. He died a few weeks later but she then married Albert's brother, the Duke of York (later George V) and their income improved. Francis died at Richmond Lodge, Surrey in 1900, but it alleged that he may have died in a Viennese brothel and his body brought home secretly to avoid public embarrasment.

Franz married Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge 12 Jun 1866, Kew, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of Adolphus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Cambridge and Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel) was born 27 Nov 1833, Hanover, Prussia, Germany; died 27 Oct 1897, White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, England; was buried 3 Nov 1897, St.George Chapel Cemetery Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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British Nobility. Younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, she was born Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth Guelph. She was ceaselessly popular with the public, and nicknamed Fat Mary for her very wide girth, prompting her first cousin, Queen Victoria to comment "The mob likes fat people". Mary had extravagent tastes in food, clothes, and jewels, and was the first of the royal family to patronize many charities. She married Francis of Teck, later Duke of Teck, on June 12, 1866. Together they had three sons and one daughter, Mary, who married Prince George, later King George V. Princess Mary died at White Lodge, Richmond Park, at the age of 64.

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British Royalty. Born Adolphus Frederick Hanover at Buckingham Palace, London, the seventh son of George III, King of Great Britain and Sophie Charlotte Herzogin von Meckleburg-Sterlitz. He was educated at Kew and the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter in June 1786 and gained the rank of Colonel in 1793 in the service of the Hanoverian Army. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1798. He was created 1st Duke of Cambridge, 1st Baron of Culloden, and 1st Earl of Tipperary in November 1801. He was invested as a Privy Counselor in February 1802, and gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in June 1803 in the service of the British Army. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath in January 1815, and as a Knight Grand Cross, Hanoverian Order in August 1815. After the death of his niece, the heir apparent, Princess Charlotte, in 1817, he and his unmarried brothers scrambled for legitimate brides in the hope of securing heirs to the throne. He married Auguste Wilhelmine Luise Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel, in May 1818 at Cassel, Germany and with her had three children who stood behind their cousin, Victoria, in precedence. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George in June 1825. He died at his residence, Cambridge House, in London at age 76, his only son succeeded to his titles.

Adolphus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Cambridge was born on 24 February 1774 at Buckingham Palace, St. James's, London, EnglandG.3 He was the son of George III Hanover, King of Great Britain and Sophie Charlotte Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Strelitz.4 He married Auguste Wilhelmine Luise Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel, daughter of Friedrich III Prinz General von Hessen-Kassel and Karoline Polyxena Prinzessin von Nassau-Usingen, on 7 May 1818 at Cassel, GermanyG.3 Adolphus Frederick and Auguste Wilhelmine Luise were also married in a religious ceremony on 1 June 1818 at Kew Palace, Kew, London, EnglandG. He died on 8 July 1850 at age 76 at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, EnglandG, from a gastric fever.5 He was buried on 17 July 1850 at Kew Palace, Kew, London, EnglandG.5 His will was proven (by probate) in August 1850.5
He was a member of the House of Guelph.6 He gained the title of HRH Prince Adolphus Frederick of the United Kingdom. He was educated at Kew, London, EnglandG.4 He was appointed Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.) on 2 June 1786.3 He gained the rank of Colonel in 1793 in the Hanoverian Army.4 He was educated at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyG.4 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1798.4 He was created 1st Earl of Tipperary, in Ireland [U.K.] on 27 November 1801.4 He was created 1st Duke of Cambridge [U.K.] on 27 November 1801.4 He was created 1st Baron of Culloden, in North Britain [U.K.] on 27 November 1801.4 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 3 February 1802.5 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in June 1803 in the British Army.4 He was Colonel of the Coldstream Guards between 1805 and 1850.4 He gained the rank of General in April 1808.4 He held the office of Chancellor of St. Andrews University between 1811 and 1814.5 He gained the rank of Field Marshal in November 1813.4 He was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) on 2 January 1815.5 He was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Hanoverian Order (G.C.H.) on 12 August 1815.5 He held the office of Viceroy of Hanover between November 1816 and June 1837.5 He held the office of Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George on 20 June 1825.5 He was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) on 20 June 1825.5 He was Colonel of the 60th Foot between 1827 and 1850.4 He held the office of Ranger of Richmond Park between 1835 and 1850.5 He was appointed Knight, Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia.5 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) by Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, on 4 July 1842.5 He held the office of Ranger of St. James's Park and Hyde Park between 1843 and 1850.5 He was appointed Knight, Order of St. Andrew of Russia in 1844.5 He held the office of Warden of the New Forest between 1845 and 1850.5 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.7

Children of Adolphus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Cambridge and Auguste Wilhelmine Luise Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel
Field Marshal George William Frederick Charles Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cambridge+ b. 26 Mar 1819, d. 17 Mar 1904
Auguste Karoline Hanover, Princess of Cambridge+6 b. 19 Jul 1822, d. 4 Dec 1916
Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth Hanover, Princess of Cambridge+8 b. 27 Nov 1833, d. 27 Oct 1897
Citations
[S3] Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 178. Hereinafter cited as Queen Victoria's Descendants.


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Adolphus married Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel 7 May 1818, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. Auguste (daughter of Friedrich Hessen-Kassel, III and Karoline Polyxene von Nassau-Usingen) was born 25 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; was christened 31 Jul 1797, Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany; died 6 Apr 1889, Saint James's Palace, London, England, United Kingdom; was buried , St. George's Chapel Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (German: Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel; 25 July 1797 ? 6 April 1889) was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of George V.

Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, third daughter of Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, and his wife, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, was born at Rumpenheim Castle (French: Château de Rumpenheim, German: Rumpenheimer Schloss), Kassel, Hesse. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of George II of Great Britain, her grandfather having married George II's daughter Mary. Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, her uncle's title was raised to Elector of Hesse ? whereby the entire Kassel branch of the Hesse dynasty gained an upward notch in hierarchy.
Marriage

On 7 May, in Kassel, and then, again, on 1 June 1818 at Buckingham Palace, Princess Augusta married her second cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, when she was 20 and he 44. Upon their marriage, Augusta gained the style HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children.

From 1818 until the accession of Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers, George IV and William IV. In 1827 Augusta allowed that a new village, founded on 3 May 1827 and to be settled in the course of the cultivation and colonisation of the moorlands in the south of Bremervörde, would bear her name. On 19 June the administration of the Hanoveran High-Bailiwick of Stade informed the villagers that she had approved the chosen name Augustendorf for their municipality (since 1974 it is a component locality of Gnarrenburg). The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and later at St. James's Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge survived her husband by thirty-nine years, dying at the age of ninety-one.

She was buried at St Anne's Church, Kew, but her remains were later transferred to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

25 July 1797 ? 7 May 1818: Her Serene Highness Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse[2]
7 May 1818 ? 6 April 1889: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge

Ancestry
[show]Ancestors of Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel
Issue

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children:
Name Birth Death Notes
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge 26 March 1819 17 March 1904 illegally married, 1847, Sarah Louisa Fairbrother; had issue
Princess Augusta of Cambridge 19 July 1822 4 December 1916 married, 1843, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; had issue
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge 27 November 1833 27 October 1897 married, 1866, Francis, Duke of Teck; had issue, including Mary of Teck, wife of George V

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Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel was a younger member of the dynasty that ruled the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general.

He was born as the youngest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain. He was the last surviving grandchild of George II of Great Britain, dying one month before Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.

He married Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen , he bought the castle of Rumpenheim, Offenbach, from his brother Carl, and it became the family's seat. His descendants are known as the Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim branch of the House of Hesse, one of only two branches that survived to the present day.
Children:
William (24 December 1787 ? 5 September 1867), married Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789?1864) and was the father of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (wife of Christian IX of Denmark).
Karl Friedrich (9 March 1789 ? 10 September 1802)
Friedrich Wilhelm (24 April 1790 ? 25 October 1876)
Ludwig Karl (12 November 1791 ? 12 May 1800)
Georg Karl (14 January 1793 ? 4 March 1881)
Luise Karoline Marie Friederike (9 April 1794 ? 16 March 1881), married Graf George von der Decken (1787?1859), King's Hanoverian General of the Cavalry (Germany)
Marie Wilhelmine Friederike (21 January 1796 ? 30 December 1880), married Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779?1860)
Augusta Wilhelmine Luise (25 July 1797 ? 6 April 1889), married Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774?1850)

Friedrich married Karoline Polyxene von Nassau-Usingen 2 Dec 1786, Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. Karoline was born 4 Apr 1762, Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany; died 18 Sep 1821, Bad Homburg vor der Höhenlohe, Hochtaunuskrei, Hessen, Deutschland; was buried 25 Sep 1821, Mausoleum und Schlosskirche Rumpenheim Offenbach am Main, Stadtkreis Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

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Since 1964 reburied in a grave behind the church.
In 1786 she maried Friedrich Langrave of Hessen-Karel (1747-1837), major general in the Danish army; since 1768 he served in the Dutch army; Governor of Maastricht (1784-1794). He was reburied in the same grave.