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Mary of Teck

1867 - 1953

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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. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after the month of her birth. At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, who was second in line to the throne. Six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during a pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's only surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary of Teck is the 11th most popular companion (up from 96th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 310th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Companion.

Mary of Teck was the wife of King George V and Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress Consort of India. She was the mother of King Edward VIII, King George VI, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester.

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Among companions, Mary of Teck ranks 11 out of 784. Before her are Fatimah, Anne Boleyn, Mumtaz Mahal, Helena, Joséphine de Beauharnais, and Catherine de' Medici. After her are Theodora, Imelda Marcos, Eva Braun, Aspasia, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, and Mihrimah Sultan.

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Among people born in 1867, Mary of Teck ranks 2. Before her is Marie Curie. After her are Edgar de Wahl, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Luigi Pirandello, Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, and Arturo Toscanini. Among people deceased in 1953, Mary of Teck ranks 2. Before her is Joseph Stalin. After her are Lavrentiy Beria, Sergei Prokofiev, Ibn Saud, Edwin Hubble, Gerd von Rundstedt, Robert Andrews Millikan, Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, and Emmerich Kálmán.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary of Teck ranks 57 out of 8,785. Before her are James Cook (1728), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), and John Major (1943). After her are Margaret Thatcher (1925), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John Lennon (1940), John Dalton (1766), and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824).

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Among companions born in United Kingdom, Mary of Teck ranks 2. Before her are Anne Boleyn (1501). After her are Anne Hathaway (1556), Maud of Wales (1869), Catherine Parr (1512), Jane Seymour (1508), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Mary Boleyn (1499), Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Catherine Howard (1523), and Elizabeth of York (1466).

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