Word: teck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus...
...note written in pencil which read: 'Please make me a sketch of our beloved Queen as she lies there on her bed surrounded by the flowers she loved.' 'A.' It was from Alexandra . . . It was at Stanmore that I first met Prince Francis of Teck, the brother of Queen Mary, probably the handsomest man I have ever seen...
Mary, Queen of England: "Sir James Weeks Szlumper, aged 90, onetime Mayor of Richmond (near London) granted an interview to a representative of the New York Tribune. He said he had known me when I was Princess Mary of Teck, and that I 'had ever been a tomboy.' 'In my youth,' continued Sir James, 'we had sentry boxes in which watchmen took refuge during rough weather, and I remember that these boxes were an unfailing source of amusement to the young bloods of the day, who frequently turned them over when the occupants were inside. There were oil lamps...