#mary princess royal

[cesareeborgia]

↳ Historical Ladies Name: Mary/Marie/Maria

[romanovsonelastdance]

King George V with his wife, eldest son, and only daughter.

[duchesssoflennox]

King George V was very fond of his only daughter, Princess Mary, who was born in 1897. He called her his "little ray of sunshine" and gave her the title of Princess Royal in 1932. He also supported her charitable work during the First World War and her marriage to Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, in 1922. Princess Mary was loyal and dutiful to her father and was deeply affected by his death in 1936. She remained close to her mother, Queen Mary, and her brother George VI until their deaths. 🤍🦋

Thanks for asking @bhoooo34 ❤️‍🩹

[missmarymaywindsor]

Extract from Queen Mary’s photo album showing Princess Mary with her infant son George Lascelles! And, of course, one with Grannie too!

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

❤ Queen Alexandra with her grandchildren ❤

Edit made by me using CapCut!

[grandmaster-anne]

c. 1960s Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood © George Konig

[royal-confessions]

“I've always thought Princess Mary of the United Kingdom was underestimated, she was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary Teck, I wish there was more published about her.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15

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[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

A newborn Mary Princess Royal (later Countess of Harewood) with her older brothers Prince David (King Edward VIII) and Prince Albert “Bertie” (King George VI), 1897

[krasivaa]

Blood is thicker than water

~☆~royal lookalikes~☆~

Zara Tindall and her great aunt, Mary Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood. -@abigaaal 💛👱‍♀️

@krasivaa's royal series

[for-valour]

‘Many thanks for your card.’

Rare image of a personal Christmas card from Bertie (then the Duke of York), to an unknown recipient. December 1920.

And a bonus photo of the young Windsor family ice skating and playing hockey at Sandringham in the New Year of 5th January, 1908. L-R: Prince Henry held by the Windsors’ tutor, Henry Peter Hansell, Prince Edward holding the hand of his mama, Queen Mary (when still Princess of Wales), Prince Albert/Bertie holding onto an unknown(?) attendant, Princess Mary, papa George V (when still Prince of Wales).

Have a very merry festive season, whatever you celebrate, and a joyful New Year! Thank you if you’ve stumbled across this new, George VI-crazy corner of Tumblr. I don’t know where I’m going with this, but it’s probably only going to get more bizarre as time goes by :)

. Sources: Manuscripts.co.uk and rct.uk

[princessvictoriamelita]

Royal Wedding on 10 February 1904 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Prince Alexander of Teck (29) and Princess Alice of Albany (20).

The bride was the eldest born child of Queen Victoria's youngest son the late Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by his German wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

The bridegroom was the youngest son of Francis, Duke of Teck by his wife Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. His elder sister was the wife of Princess Alice's first cousin King George V.

The beautiful bride in her wedding dress

Their bridesmaids

The bride and bridegroom with the bridesmaids.

[romanovsonelastdance]

OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Mary.

The only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, she born on 25 April 1897, making her just a few weeks older than Tatiana Nikolaevna.

[acrossthewavesoftime]

“Tell me, please, who is this woman who has such a fierce nose?”

The woman who has such a fierce nose and her son. It's a family heirloom.

I think I have found my favourite story from Liselotte von der Pfalz's letters so far:

Little Liselotte unwittingly insults Mary, the Princess Royal, makes a young William of Orange laugh and has her aunt and grandmother in stitches:

To Caroline, Princess of Wales

St Cloud 26 November 1720

Ma tante, our dear Electress [Sophie von Hannover], didn’t visit the Princess Royal [Mary Stuart], but the Queen of Bohemia [Elizabeth Stuart, Elisabeth Charlotte’s grandmother] did, and took me with her. Ma tante said to me, “Take care, Lisette, don’t get lost as you usually do, so that no one can find you, but stay close to the Queen and don’t keep her waiting for you.” I said, “Oh, ma tante, you’ll see, I’ll be so good.” I had often played with the son [William of Orange], whom I found with his mother, only I didn’t know it was his mother, so after I had gazed at her for a long time I looked round for someone to tell me who this woman was. There was no one except the Prince of Orange, so I went up to him and said, “Dites-moi, je vous prie, qui est cette femme qui a un si furieux nez?” [Tell me, please, who is this woman who has such a fierce nose?”] He laughed and replied, “C’est la Princesse Royale, ma mère.” [“It’s the Princess Royal, my mother.”] I was so shocked that I was struck dumb, and to comfort me Mlle Hyde [Anne Hyde, future wife of James, Duke of York/James II] took me and the Prince into the Princess’ bedchamber, where we played all sorts of games. I had asked to be called when the Queen was ready to leave; we were just rolling about on a Turkish carpet when the summons came. I jumped up and ran into the audience-chamber, but the Queen had already reached the anteroom. I quickly pulled the Princess Royal back by her skirt, and making her a pretty curtsey, walked in front of her, following the Queen to the carriage. Everyone laughed, I didn’t know why. When we arrived home the Queen went to ma tante, and sitting on her bed, laughing so that she almost choked, said, “Lisette a fait un beau voyage” [“Lisette had a nice trip”], and told her what I had done. Our dear Electress laughed even harder than the Queen, called me, and said, “Lisette, you have done well, you have revenged us on the proud princess.”

From: Maria Kroll [Ed.], Letters from Liselotte, New York, McCall 1971, pp. 229-230. Information in brackets added by me.

To date this charming anecdote, a few details from the lives of the protagonists are rather helpful in narrowing down the time frame: Liselotte was sent to live with her aunt, with whom she visited the Netherlands a few times, in 1659, and by late September 1660, William's mother Mary had gone on her fateful last journey to England. With Mary alive and in the Netherlands, and Liselotte in the custody of Sophie von Hannover, a time frame of about a year between 1659 and September 1660 emerges; born 18 months apart, William would have been either 8 or 9, and Liselotte 7 or 8 years old.

Liselotte, as this letter written 18 years after William's death indicates, would ever remember her former playfellow fondly, even when her French marriage meant that they found themselves on opposing sides politically. She thought he was a good king (even when her son was wounded fighting William), not handsome, but all the more intelligent, and repeatedly explained why his rumoured homosexuality, something she deeply detested in her husband, was, if not to be endorsed, at least acceptable in the case of the man she had been "rolling about on a Turkish carpet" with when they had been children in The Hague. Most tellingly, she once referred to him in a letter utilising the old saying that "alte Lieb nicht rost"-- or, in English, "old love never rusts."

One wonders if William, too, recalled this anecdote-- and what his mother Mary, Princess Royal and dowager Princess of Orange, thought of her straightforward young relation.

Not exactly Stuart nose-less either: Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, Sophie von Hannover and Liselotte von der Pfalz.

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 2nd July 1923

— Monday 2nd July In the evening we dined at Brook House some ninety strong with General and Mrs Vanderbilt.¹ Later there was a large ball, very fashionable and grand yet ‘kind’. Mrs Vanderbilt passed first into dinner with Paul of Serbia, which was correct but seemed to irritate Lord Curzon .... At midnight the P of W and the Yorks arrived ... her² first ball. Everyone was interested to see what would happen and what etiquette would be precedented and established. She was charming, dignified and blushing a little. Everyone ‘bobbed’ to the ground, if anything even lower than to the princes. Now that is settled. She brought no lady-in-waiting as Princess Mary�� frequently does ... — 1. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942), of New York, was a soldier and yachtsman: in 1896 he married, greatly against his father’s wishes, Grace Graham Wilson (1870-1953). 2. The former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. 3. Princess (Victoria Alexandra Alice) Mary (1897-1965), only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She married Henry George Charles Lascelles (1882-1947), by courtesy Viscount Lascelles, who in 1929 became the 6th Earl of Harewood. She was created Princess Royal in 1932.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

I have never seen a sweet photo of Queen Mary with her only daughter. did he like taking more formal photos?

Myself I personally think they preferd to take more formal photos, not saying that they didn't like taking informal photos though. But here are some informal photos of them together, they are very sweet. 🥰