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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.
Once the coffin was placed at Westminster Hall at 3:00 pm, royal dukes, Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, her grandsons the Earl of Harewood and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, and the nobility stood on one side of the catafalque, while the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of ...
Mary Victoria Leiter, 1887 by Alexandre Cabanel. Mary Victoria Leiter was born in Chicago, the eldest daughter of Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the wealthy co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Field retail empire. On her father's side, she was of Swiss-German descent.
Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith (formerly Lady May Cambridge, née Princess May of Teck; 23 January 1906 – 29 May 1994) [2] was a member of the British royal family.On her mother's side she was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and on her father's side she was a great-great-granddaughter of King George III (grandfather of Queen Victoria) and the niece of Queen Mary (née Princess Mary ...
Mary Alfred Moes, (born Maria Catherine Moes; October 28, 1828 – December 18, 1899) [1] was a Roman Catholic nun who was instrumental in establishing first the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate in Joliet, Illinois, as well as the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota.
Andrew Albert Christian Edwards, Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. Bill Clinton, former US president Donald Trump, businessman and former US president. David ...
Mary was the daughter of Queen Victoria's first cousin Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. The Queen was very supportive, considering Mary ideal—charming, sensible and pretty. [77] On 3 December 1891 Albert Victor, to Mary's "great surprise", proposed to her at Luton Hoo, the country residence of the Danish ambassador to Britain. [78]
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