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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, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V.
Mary, Princess Royal (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British royal family.She was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, the sister of kings Edward VIII and George VI, and aunt of Elizabeth II.
Prince George, Duke of York, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck were married at 12:30 on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Their wedding was the first royal wedding to take place in St James's Chapel since the death of Prince Albert in 1861, which plunged Queen Victoria into deep mourning.
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth with RAF personnel during World War II. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions other than Ireland declared war on Nazi Germany. [77] The King and Queen resolved to stay in London, despite German bombing raids.
20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter and successor of King George VI, was married to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, grandson of George I, King of the Hellenes, at Westminster Abbey, London. 6 May 1960: Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI, was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey, London.
In 1981, the Prince married Lady Diana Spencer, making her the Princess of Wales. In 1982, the couple welcomed their first son, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, and their second, Prince Henry ...
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth coronation invitation. The ceremony was attended by the King's and Queen's daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, as well as by the King's mother, Queen Mary. [16] When Mary attended the coronation, she became the first British dowager queen to do so. [17]
The first was Queen Mary I, whose coronation was in 1553. ... which was the same one used in her father King George VI’s coronation 16 years earlier. ... Four-year-old King Charles III was the ...