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...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
When she was only five years old, the collector's passion seized Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Princess of Teck. She began hoarding Christmas cards, and throughout a long and energetic life as Britain's Queen Mary, she kept collecting. Before her death last year at the age of 85, she had assembled one of the most splendiferous royal collections of objets d'art in history...
...indeed. She was fast-talking Anne Shipley, 46, Reeve (administrator) of the Township of Teck by official title and Mayor of Kirkland Lake by unofficial fact. She was in New York City to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
...dramatic crisis develops when another house guest, pro-Nazi Rumanian Count Teck de Brancovis (George Coulouris), discovers that Muller is about to slip back to Germany with money for the anti-Fascist cause, tries to blackmail him. Muller shoots the count, bids his wife & children farewell, leaves for Europe on what looks like a one-way trip...
...King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion of tiny Lord Beaverbrook...