Princess Victoria Mary of Teck/Queen Mary of the United Kingdom

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 -- 24 March 1953) was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V. By birth, she was a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, with the style Serene Highness. To her family, she was informally known as May, after her birth month.
Her father, who was of German extraction, married into the British Royal Family, and "May" was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. At the age of 24 she was betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the heir to the British throne, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement he unexpectedly died of pneumonia. The following year she became engaged to the new heir, Albert Victor's brother, George. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales. As his queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through World War I, his ill-health, and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war and the rise of socialism and nationalism. After George's death in 1936, her eldest son Edward became King-Emperor, but to her dismay he abdicated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, Elizabeth II. Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-law, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; and Elizabeth II.
Queen Mary was known for setting the tone of the British Royal Family, as a model of regal formality and propriety, especially during state occasions. Noted for superbly bejewelling herself for formal events, she left a collection of jewels now considered priceless.

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[Mesalonika]

Injection of Cocaine? and Morphine? please? what is that all about? who in the right mind will do something like that ? (MJ doctor's too?)

[lostsplendour]

@Mesalonika His main physician Lord Dawson of Penn's private diary, unearthed after his death, reveals that he hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine, both to prevent further strain on the family and so that the King's death at 11:55 pm could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than "less appropriate ... evening journals". That's the sad thruth.

[skippallan]

nice vid...what's the title of the background music

[lostsplendour]

@skippallan It's Raptamei Pi by ES Posthumus.

[Fronika]

The same face over and over again in the Royal females.

[Buondelmonte123]

@lostsplendour thank you. That is most interesting.

[lostsplendour]

@Buondelmonte123 You must be confusing tiaras. Diana received the Cambridge Lovers Knot tiara, not the Vladimir Tiara (Diamond and Pearl or Emerald). The Duchess of Cornwall never wore the two tiaras mentioned previously but she wore the Durbar and Greville tiaras.

[drose5200]

Anybody else see the incredible resemblence between Mary and her son George VI, as well as between Mary and her majesty Elizabeth II??!

[mylillambs]

What a great presentation thank you so much realy enjoyed it she was so beautiful.

[bean9seventy]

@NuovoPiero very intresting ,,there must a few people directly related to mary and victoria as a consequence ,,

[lachicafun]

Beautiful video. I can only imagine her pain knowing she had to bury 3 of her children and her husband.

[anaclet]

Long live our most beloved Queen!

[Mesalonika]

@lostsplendour Thank You.  Very curious, and certainly sad.