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1898

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Prince George, future Duke of Kent, on a horse

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Gorgeous David

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George and Mary in 1918 during their Silver Anniversary

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Father and son

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Queen Mary, the Bishop, and the Biscuit

QUEEM MARY’S humor sometimes found expression in those mildly unkind practical jokes which seem to afflict royal families the world over. She cared little for dogs, but when staying with her niece the Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton she did become fond enough of one animal to enact a ritual each night at the end of dinner; she would ceremoniously give it a dog biscuit. One evening the local bishop came to dine, and it was to him that she delegated the duty, handing him the biscuit with a few words of explanation. But the prelate, rather hard of hearing, thought that he was being offered the Badminton equivalent of a sheep’s eye at a dessert feast. Accepting the mark of favour with misgiving, he munched his way through it to the last crumb. Other families, amid shouts of laughter, would at once have explained the mistake. That night nobody stopped him and nobody laughed until after his departure. It is not an agreeable story.* 

–Princess Marie Louse, My Memories of Six Reigns, p. 302. 

*I disagree with Her Highness–I think it’s a very agreeable story. 

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Mary with all six of her children; David, Bertie, Mary, Henry, George, and Johnny.

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King Edward VII , seated on the Royal Yacht with his son George, Duke of York, later King George V - far right , Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Henry of Prussia, the King of Denmark (not sure) and Prince Louis of Battenberg

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Rare photo of George, 1891

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Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during King Edward VII's funeral procession, 1910

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George V, Queen Mary and Edward, Prince of Wales at the chateau at Tramecourt, 7th July 1917

“I love you so much and I miss you so much but I know that this is where you have to be because it is where all young men your age want to be and I hope that you learn something that will be helpful to you in the future”

- King George V in a letter to his eldest son Edward Prince of Wales during his service in WWI

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Her Majesty Queen Mary in the Silver Jubilee year of her husband, 1935. 

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Prince George