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Mary of Teck

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The Resume

    (May 26, 1867-March 24, 1953)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes
    Princess of Teck (a duchy in Wurtemburg, Germany)
    Queen consort of Great Britain (1910-36)
    Married to King George V (1893-1936)
    Mother of King Edward VIII and King George VI

Why she might be annoying:

    She was originally engaged to George's brother, Prince Albert Victor, marrying George only after Albert Victor died in an influenza epidemic.
    She was such a distant mother that she failed to notice that the nanny was abusing her children.
    After she died, Edward VIII wrote, 'I'm afraid the fluids in her veins have always been as icy cold as they are now in death.'
    As a collector of objets d'art, she would drop less than subtle hints to her hosts about how much she admired one of their possessions in hope of receiving it as a gift.
    Some royal watchers claim that if this technique failed, she would simply pocket the item when no one was looking.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Despite its somewhat awkward start, her marriage to George was a success: he wrote her every day they were apart and never took a mistress.
    During World War I, she instituted food rationing at Buckingham Palace and visited wounded soldiers in hospitals.
    Her youngest child, Prince John, died from epilepsy at age 13; her second-youngest son, George the Duke of Kent, died in a plane crash during World War II.
    Her estrangement from Edward was based largely on her belief that he had tarnished the throne by putting his personal pleasures ahead of his royal duty.
    Some royal watchers suggest that she was euthenized to make sure that the mourning period for her death would not conflict with the schedule for Queen Elizabeth's coronation.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 39 Votes: 12.82% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 229 Votes: 52.40% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 56 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 54 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 44 Votes: 52.27% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 71 Votes: 56.34% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 85 Votes: 61.18% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 58 Votes: 67.24% Annoying