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4 days ago · In 1893, Princess Mary of Teck, whose father was a member of the Württemberg Royal House, married Prince George, who became King George V. Perhaps it was the association with royalty that led Wurtemburg to be part of a route for royalty during visits to the capital.
2 days ago · In late 1891, Edward's eldest son, Albert Victor, was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. Just a few weeks later, in early 1892, Albert Victor died of pneumonia. Edward was grief-stricken. "To lose our eldest son", he wrote, "is one of those calamities one can never really get over".
4 days ago · King George V and Queen Mary, 1913. Photographed during a visit to Berlin, with the king wearing the uniform of a Prussian cuirassier. From The Sphere, 7 June 1913.
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4 days ago · Born Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, she married Prince George, the Duke of York, in July 1893, but only after her engagement to George’s older brother the Duke of Clarence ended with his early death the year prior.
3 days ago · For Mary, death, in consequence of her freedom from original sin and from personal sin, was not a consequence of punishment of sin. However, it seems fitting that Mary’s body, which was by nature mortal, should be, in conformity with that of her Divine Son, subject to the general law of death.
3 days ago · Mary of Teck was married to King George V and was Queen Elizabeth's II's grandmother. Although she was the daughter of the Duke of Teck in Germany and was a princess of Teck she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom.
2 hours ago · Mary, a 5-ton Asian elephant, was publicly hanged from a railway derrick car after she was involved in an incident that resulted in the death of her inexperienced handler. On September 13, 1916 ...
