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1867- 1953. Early Years

Princess Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26th May 1867, the daughter of Francis Paul, Duke of Teck and Mary Adelaide, formerly a princess of Cambridge.

Due to her father's morganatic descent from the House of Württemberg, she was known by the title Serene Highness and was christened with the names Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) stood as godparents.

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The mother of the new arrival to the Royal family was the first cousin of Queen Victoria, being the younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, (the youngest surviving son of King George III) and Augusta of Hesse-Cassel.

Her father, considered a very handsome young man and at the time a Prince of Teck, was the son of Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, by his morganatic union with the beautiful Transylvanian countess, Claudia Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde.

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