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...pylons designed by Canadian Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...
...Duke of Clarence, died in 1892, Sailor Prince George had worked his way up to the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus. Reluctantly he left her to take up his duties as eventual heir to the throne, which included his marriage to the present Queen Mary (of Teck), his dead brother's fianc...
...Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess of Teck...
...Sold in Berlin by a heartless auctioneer was a letter written by the Queen-Empress when she was just Princess Mary of Teck. It was written in 1893, shortly after the death of her first fiance, the Duke of Clarence, and her engagement to his younger brother, the present George V. "The last year has been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond...
...Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...