Word: teck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duke of Clarence was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at the time of his death (1892), but in the succeeding year the Princess was married to Prince George, now King and Emperor. Chance interrupted the succession and brought to a young sailor prince his consort and his throne. How has Chance dealt with Gaston Doumergue...
...Majesty's mother, Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was a large, blocky woman of tremendous, athletic vitality, and of a personal magnetism so great that she was sometimes called "the most popular princess of her time." The present Queen and Empress forged her own naturally retiring and bashful disposition in the heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial...
...left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover his betrothal to Princess Mary of Teck had been announced and touted as a love match...
...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...