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H.M.
Queen Mary

1867-1953

  
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

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Index of Reigns & Peerages
       
  full name:   Victoria May Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes
  birth: 1867.05.26 at Kensington Palace, London
  father:   Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, Duke of Teck
  mother:   Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth, Duchess of Teck
  marriage: 1893.07.06 King George V
at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London
  children: 1894 Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Edward VIII)
    1895 Albert Arthur Frederick George (George VI)
    1897 Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary (The Princess Royal)
    1900 Henry William Frederick (1st Duke of Gloucester)
    1902 George Edward Alexander Edmund (1st Duke of Kent)
    1905 Prince John Charles Francis (d.1919)
  death: 1953.03.24 at Marlborough House, London
(buried: St George's Chapel, Windsor)
       
       
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
  1867.05.26 Princess of Teck, with the style of Her Serene Highness (H.R.H.Princess May of Teck)
  1893.07.06 H.R.H. The Duchess of York
  1901.02.22 H.R.H. The Duchess of Cornwall and York
  1901.11.09 H.R.H. The Princess of Wales
  1910.05.06 H.M. Queen Mary
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
  1910.06.03 LG
  1893.07.06 VA 1st class
  1911.12.14 GCSI
  1889.05.25 CI
  1936.06.23 GCVO
  1917.08.24 GBE (Grand Master and Principal Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1936-1953)
  1937.05.11 Royal Victorian Chain
  1910.05.06 RRC
  1926.06.12 GCStJ
  1902.05 King Edward VII Royal Family Order, 2nd class
  1902.08.09 Queen Alexandra's Family Order
  1911.06.03 King George V Royal Family Order, 1st class
  1937.05.09 King George VI Royal Family Order, 1st class
  1952.12.25 Queen Elizabeth II Royal Family Order, 1st class
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
  1894 The Order of St Isabella (Portugal)
  1902.08.08 Grand Cross, the Order of the Star of Ethiopia
  1904.04.21 Grand Cross, the Order of St Elisabeth (Austria)
  1905.06.27 Grand Cordon, the Order of the Precious Crown (Japan)
  1905.06.16 The Imperial Order of the Sun for Ladies (Nishan-i-Aftab) (Persia)
  1906 Golden Wedding Badge (Denmark)
  1906.05.30 Lady, the Order of the Noble Ladies of Queen Maria Luisa (Spain)
  1907.11.12 The Order of Louise, 1st class (Prussia)
  1909.08.05 The Order of St Catherine, 1st class (Russia)
  1916.02.31 Grand Cross, the Order of the Star of Kara George (Yugoslavia)
  1919 Red Cross Medal (Italy)
  1919 Red Cross Medal (Rumania)
  1927.05.16 Grand Cordon, the Order of the Legion of Honour (French Republic)
  1927.07.04 The Decoration of al-Kamal (the Order of the Virtues) in brilliants (Egypt)
  1928.03.13 Collar, the Order of the Supreme Sun (Afghanistan)
  1932.01.13 Grand Cross, the Order of the Queen of Sheba (Ethiopia) - rcvd: Collar (1935)
  1935 Grand Cross, the Order of the St Sava (Yugoslavia)
  1938.11.07 The Order of St Olga and St Sophia, 1st class (Greece)
  1938.11.15 Grand Cross, the Order of the Crown of Rumania (Rumania)
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
       
1913 Chef, Husaren-Regiment Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt (Pommersches) Nr. 5
  1914.06.22 Colonel-in-Chief, 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) [to 1922]
  <1920> Colonel-in-Chief, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [to 1922]
  1922.04.01 Colonel-in-Chief, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) [on formation]
  1922.04.18 Colonel-in-Chief, 100th (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade, RFA (TA) [on formation, to 1939]
  1925? President, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
  1928.07.27 Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
  1937.05.12 Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  1939.12.22 Colonel-in-Chief, 63rd (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, RA (TA) [on formation, to 1942]
  1942.02.17 Colonel-in-Chief, 387th Field Regiment, RA (Queen's Own Oxford Hussars) (TA) [on formation, to 1950]
  1942.02.24 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Army Medical Corps
  1949.02.01 Colonel-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
  1950.09.15 Colonel-in-Chief, 299th (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry and Queen's Own Oxford Hussars) Field Regiment, RA (TA) [on formation]
       
       
   Military Service
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   Other Military Connections
1901.04.30 granted her title to Surrey Yeomanry (The Princess of Wales's)
1903.08.01 granted her title to 18th (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
1909 granted her name to 127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch Light Infantry
1918 granted her name to Queen Mary's Army Auxliary Corps
 
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