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Rare Antique Royalty Queen Mary Signed Coronation Photo Royal Document Autograph For Sale
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Rare Antique Royalty Queen Mary Signed Coronation Photo Royal Document Autograph:
$749.95
LOT-R10. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important c.1914 royal presentation photograph, manuscript hand-signed by HM Queen Mary of Teck. Royalty photo is original. Condition is original. Photograph is hand-signed in black ink. Royal photograph measures 3.5\" x 5.5\". This particular piece is double signed and inscribed. See verso. Guaranteed original and authentic.
Mary of Teck(Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867– 24 March 1953) wasQueen of the United Kingdomand theBritish Dominions, andEmpress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 29 January 1936 as the wife ofKing-Emperor George V.
Born and raised in theUnited Kingdom, she was daughter toFrancis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, andPrincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter ofKing George IIIand a minor member of theBritish royal family. She was informally known as \"May\", after the month of her birth.
At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removedPrince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of thePrince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during aninfluenza pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor\'s only surviving brother,George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband\'s accession, she was successivelyDuchess of York,Duchess of Cornwall, andPrincess of Wales.
Asqueen consortfrom 1910, she supported her husband through theFirst World War, his ill health, and major political changes arising from theaftermath of the war. After George\'s death in 1936, she becamequeen motherwhen her eldest son,Edward VIII, ascended the throne; but to her dismay, heabdicatedlater the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialiteWallis Simpson. She supported her second son,George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughterElizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned. Among much else, anocean liner, abattlecruiser, anda universitywerenamed in her honour.
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