#Mary Princess Royal

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↳ Historical Ladies Name: Mary/Marie/Maria

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Photos of Princes David (King Edward VIII), Albert (King George VI), and Henry (Duke of Gloucester) and Princess Mary (Princess Royal), along with Charlotte “Lala” Bill who would later become the main caretaker for little brother Prince John, at the beach playing, 1900

Source: Princess Victoria’s private albums, Royal Collection Trust

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

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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. 🤍🦋

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

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❤ Queen Alexandra with her grandchildren ❤

Edit made by me using CapCut!

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“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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1913  The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace: King George V, Princess Mary, Prince Edward, and Queen Mary by John Lavery © National Portrait Gallery, London

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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

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Is there much info on how The Duchess of Windsor's sisters in laws felt about her, I mean there is no shortage of info on her and Elizabeths relationship, but Princess Mary, Marina of Kent and Alice of Gloucester? Ik Marina refused to receive her (but she seemed to have issues with lots of people) and Mary visited them quite a bit. Outside of that there isn't much.

There's not a ton of info about Wallis's relationships with the other sisters-in-law, at least not compared to the amount of information we have about her and Elizabeth's well-known mutual dislike. But we do have some details (and photos) of her encounters with them.

But here's what I've found (primarily using Duchess of Windsor by Greg King as a source):

Princess Mary was definitely the most tolerant and met Wallis very publicly in NYC in 1953, even allowing the press to take photos of them together which was something she probably easily could've avoided. It's hard to say whether she genuinely had a warmer view of Wallis than her sisters-in-law or it was just that she and David were very close and had been since childhood and she wanted to maintain a relationship with him. Mary had been the first member of the royal family to visit David during his initial exile in Austria (while he had to be separated from Wallis) after the abdication. According to most sources, she was genuinely upset when David wasn't invited to Elizabeth and Philip's wedding in 1947 and didn't attend herself in solidarity, though the family publicly used illness as an excuse. I do think the dynamic there was just fundamentally different than with David's brother's wives because she grew up with him and was always close to him and therefor had greater empathy for David that she also extended to Wallis. Plus there were some strange class politics between the brothers' wives in that Marina allegedly didn't like being outranked by her "common-born" (though aristocratic) sisters-in-law Elizabeth and Alice that may have played into all of them looking down on Wallis but wouldn't have effected Mary as a born royal. But it's also interesting that her first encounter with Wallis post-abdication was after she and David had just been told their mother was dying and they were about to leave to attend to her death bed. Perhaps her decision was influenced somewhat by the knowledge that her mother was no longer in a position to object. She apparently visited them in New York on subsequent trips and her son George Lascelles developed a relationship with them as well. When Mary died in 1965, David and Wallis both attended a memorial service for her in London.

Alice, interestingly enough, seems to have been the sister-in-law who, next to Elizabeth, disliked Wallis the most but also ended up being the first one to meet her after the abdication. Prior to the abdication Alice and Henry went to Fort Belvedere at least one weekend when Wallis was there, which Alice described as "awkward" because she and Henry "were unhappy with the liaison" but they went anyway out of a sense of family obligation to David. In 1938, Henry and Alice visited David and Wallis when they happened to be in Paris. This was not entirely of their own initiative, though; Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed that the optics of the royal family feud were bad and that, as the family wanted David to continue living abroad for the foreseeable future, they needed to compromise by having some form of public rapprochement. Because Henry and Alice happened to have a reason to be in Paris around that time, they got to be ones to do it even though Henry was probably the sibling David was the least close to. Alice wrote in her memoirs of the visit: "It was Neville Chamberlain's idea, not ours." But Alice would later meet Wallis on several occasions in the 1960s in the company of both of their husbands, as the royal family as a whole became less estranged with the Windsors.

Princess Marina was probably the sister-in-law who spent the most time with Wallis prior to the abdication, as her husband was the brother David was closest to and she was a regular guest at Fort Belvedere. She and George also invited Wallis to their country estate Coppins. David was also very friendly with Marina's sister Olga and her husband. Wallis was comfortable enough with George and Marina that in November of 1936 when David unexpectedly couldn't go with her to a Sunday tea at Coppins, Wallis went on her own. In Marina's branch of the family there were situations involving divorce, morganatic marriage, and live-in girlfriends so it would make sense that, prior to the abdication, she might've been the most inclined to be tolerant of Wallis's presence. But that doesn't mean she saw Wallis as an equal or was supportive of David marrying her and after the abdication, as with many in royal/aristocratic circles her attitude towards Wallis seemed to have soured significantly. In September of 1937 she refused to accompany George when he was supposed to visit David and Wallis in Austria. But this was perhaps not purely Marina's doing as she was put in a very difficult position by her in-laws. Queen Mary apparently had "warned" Marina not to meet Wallis, and though Bertie initially was supportive of the visit, he changed his mind at the behest of his wife and mother. Had this visit happened, it would've been the first time anyone in the royal family received Wallis post-abdication. When George died in 1942, David and Wallis's condolence letter was lost in transit (not an uncommon occurrence during WWII) and Marina interpreted their lack of communication as a deliberate slight which further soured her on Wallis. But Marina did eventually make up with the Windsors in 1965 when David was in London having eye surgery. Marina even hugged Wallis, and promised David that her children would come visit them in Paris, which they did do. After the ceremony to reveal a plaque honoring Queen Mary that Wallis famously attended in 1967, David and Wallis had lunch with Marina and her family. When Marina died in 1968, David attended her funeral without Wallis; I'm not sure why she didn't attend but it probably had something to do with either Wallis's health or remaining tension with the royal family at large.

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Blood is thicker than water

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

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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.

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‘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

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