Mary of Teck



Mary of Teck (26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953), born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, was Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She was Queen Mother from 1936 to 1952.

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 * Really! This might be Roumania!
 * Of the Abdication Crisis (1936), as cited in James Pope-Hennessy, Life of Queen Mary (1959), ch.7., ii.


 * Well, Mr. Baldwin, this is a pretty kettle of fish!
 * Statement to Stanley Baldwin during the abdication crisis. (1936), as cited in James Pope-Hennessy in Queen Mary, 1867-1953 (1959).


 * You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
 * As cited in John Pearson, The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (A&C Black, 2011), p. 14
 * Responding to a younger royal complaining of tiredness and disdain for Mary's expectation that royalty visit hospitals and attend to the war-wounded during World War I.