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Mary of Teck

1867 - 1953

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Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III. 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 removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales and second in line to the throne. Six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during a pandemic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary of Teck has received more than 20,645,158 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary of Teck is the 96th most popular companion (down from 76th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 270th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Companion.

Mary of Teck was the wife of King George V and Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress Consort of India. She was the mother of King Edward VIII, King George VI, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester.

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Mary of Teck ranks 96 out of 784. Before her are Katharina von Bora, Guinevere, Julia Domna, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Constance, Queen of Sicily, and Caterina Sforza. After her are Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Elizabeth Woodville, Maria Luisa of Parma, Alexandra Feodorovna, Gala Dalí, and Frederica of Hanover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Mary of Teck ranks 10. Before her are Luigi Pirandello, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, and Emil Nolde. After her are Käthe Kollwitz, John Galsworthy, Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, and Maxime Weygand. Among people deceased in 1953, Mary of Teck ranks 13. Before her are Francis Picabia, Robert Andrews Millikan, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, Guccio Gucci, and Django Reinhardt. After her are Emmerich Kálmán, Hans Fritzsche, Eugene O'Neill, Vladimir Tatlin, Ivan Bunin, and Raoul Dufy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary of Teck ranks 310 out of 8,785. Before her are Harold Macmillan (1894), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), John Herschel (1792), Thomas Becket (1119), Harold Wilson (1916), and Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486). After her are Robert Fripp (1946), Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Vivienne Westwood (1941), Frederick Sanger (1918), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), and Stanley Matthews (1915).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Mary of Teck ranks 11. Before her are Catherine Parr (1512), Catherine Howard (1523), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901). After her are Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Margaret Tudor (1489), Mordred (null), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), and Anne Hathaway (1556).

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