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  Teck - LoveToKnow 1911
TECK, a ducal castle in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, immediately to the N. of the Swabian Jura and S. of the town of Kirchheim, crowning a ridge (2544 ft.) of the same name.
The duchy of Teck was acquired early in the lrth century by Berthold, count of Zahringen, whose great-grandson Albert, or Adalbert, styled himself duke of Teck.
In 1863 the title "prince of Teck" was conferred by King William I. of Wurttemberg upon the children of Duke Alexander of Wurttemberg (1804-1885) by his morganatic marriage with Claudine, countess Rhedey, ennobled as countess of Hohenstein; in 1871 Prince Francis, the eldest son of Duke Alexander, was created duke of Teck.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg133
Francis Duke of Teck [Parents] was born 1837.
Adolphus 2nd Duke of Teck was born 1868 and died 1927.
Alexander George of Teck Earl of Athlone was born 1874 and died 1957.
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 Mary of Teck
Queen Mary, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (May 26, 1867 - March 24, 1953), known popularly as "Princess May," was the Queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom.
Born Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louis Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck at Kensington Palace[?], the daughter of the impoverished Francis, Duke of Teck, she was a great-granddaughter of King George III and a first cousin once removed of Queen Victoria.
She was at first engaged, in 1891, to Prince "Eddy", Duke of Clarence, the elder son of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom).
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 My Family
Albrecht (Albert) (Duke of Bavaria) was born in 1905.
Alexander George of Teck (Earl of Athlone) was born in 1874.
Alexander of Wurttemberg (Duke) was born in 1804.
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 Duke of Teck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke of Teck was a title of nobility, referring to Teck castle, Germany, which gave its name to a former branch line of the Zähringen dynasty.
The Duke Alexander of Württemberg married the Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde in a morganatic marriage.
In 1892, the Duke of Teck's daughter, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck married HRH Prince George, Duke of York who later reigned as King George V. The Tecks were now considered full members of the British Royal Family.
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 British royalty George V -- Queen Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Teck is an ancient German principality named after a castle built on "The Teck", a limestone peak buit in the Wabian Alps, 12 km southeast of Stuttgart.
Her brothers were: Cambridge, Adolphus II of Teck, Duke of Teck (1868-); Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick of Teck, Prince, Major Dragoons (1870-), and Cambridge, Alexander George of Teck, 1st Earl of Athlone 1st (1874-).
Prince "Eddy", Duke of Clarence and Avondale, was the eldest son of the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) and therefor in line to inherit the throne.
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 George V of the United Kingdom - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Duke and Duchess of York lived mainly at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk a relatively small house where their way of life was almost that of an ordinary family.
Although a female-line great granddaughter of King George III, Queen Mary was the daughter of the Duke of Teck, a morganatic section of the Royal House of Württemberg.
At the King's lying in state in Westminster Hall, his four surviving sons, King Edward VIII, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, mounted the guard at the catafalque on the night of January 28th, the day before the funeral as a mark of respect to their father.
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 My Family
Ernest Augustus of Brunswick (Duke) was born in 1629.
Eugene (Duke of Narke) was born in 1865.
Francis (Duke of Teck) was born in 1837.
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 Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain
Of his sons, the duke of York married in 1791 but had no issue, the prince of Wales married in 1795 and had only one daughter, princess Charlotte; the duke of Cumberland married in 1815 and his only son Georg was born in Berlin in May 1819, seven months before the death of George III.
In the act, the two surviving children of the duke of Gloucester are called "his Highness Prince William Frederick, the son of his said Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester" and his sister "her Highness Princess Sophia Matilda, the daughter of his said Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester".
Alfred, duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900), duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1893
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 Royal Genealogies Part 6
NOTES: Francis, Duke of Teck was a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Wurttemberg.
of Francis Frederick Anthony, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.
The Grand Duke Cyril was an officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and died while in exile.
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 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
In 1804 the Duke of Cambridge was nominated to the military command of the home district, and on 5 Sept. 1805 received the colonelcy of the Coldstream guards, to which was added, 22 Jan. 1827, the colonelcy-in-chief of the 60th, or the King's Royal rifle corps.
The Duke of Cambridge again took the command in the electorate of Hanover on the recovery of its independence after its sometime annexation to the kingdom of Westphalia; and after the treaty of Vienna, October 1814, had elevated the electorate into a kingdom, the Duke of Cambridge was, in November 1816, appointed to the viceroyalty.
In politics the Duke of Cambridge was on the conservative side, having in early life withstood, not without being sensibly affected by their influence, the attractive overtures of the leaders of the whigs, Fox, Sheridan, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duchess of Devonshire.
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 boys clothing: German royalty--Saxe Coburg Gotha
The duchy of Saalfeld passed to the duke of Saxe-Meiningen, while Ernest III of Saxe-Coburg received the duchy of Gotha and assumed the style Ernest I, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
He was succeeded (1893) by Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, a son of Queen Victoria and the father of Queen Marie of Romania.
Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha died childless in 1893.
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 Prince Francis, Duke of Teck biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His Highness Prince Francis, Duke of Teck (Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander) (August 28, 1837 - January 21, 1900)), was a member of the British Royal Family, the father of Queen Mary.
In 1863, Francis was created Prince of Teck, with the style His Serene Highness in the Kingdom of Württemberg, and in 1871, was created Duke of Teck.
However, Queen Victoria was fond of Princess May and persuaded the Duke of Clarence's brother, and next in the line of succession, Prince George, Duke of York to marry her instead.
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 woodgate - pafg57 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alexander George of Teck Earl of Athlone [Parents] was born in 1874.
Edward VIII Windsor Duke of Windsor [Parents] was born on 23 Jun 1894 in White Lodge,Richmond Park,Surrey,England.
George Edward Alexander Windsor Duke of Kent [Parents] was born on 20 Dec 1902 in York Cottage,Sandringham,Norfolk,England.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Mary of Teck
Mary was born at Kennsington Palace, London, in May 1867 the daughter of Francis, Prince and Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.
She was betrothed in 1891 to marry Victor Albert, the Duke Of Clarence, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales
However the War was also to bring further personal loss in 1942 when her youngest surviving son the Duke of Kent died in a RAF training exercise in Scotland.
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 Flags of the Royal Family, United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Albert, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1857(?) - 1861
They are quartered with the arms of her father Francis Duke of Teck, I assume, who is a son of Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg: Impaled yellow three antlers and yellow 3 fl lions passant langued and armed red, with a heart shield of yellow and fl lozenges.
The 1910-1953 standard of Queen Mary (Queen Mother 1936-1953) is shown in Flaggenbuch 1939 as the royal standard at the hoist with the arms of the Dukes of Teck on the fly.
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 22ND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was married to Mary May (Victoria) of TECK Queen of England (daughter of Prince Francis Paul Louis Duke of TECK-CAMBRIDGE and Princess Mary Adelaide (Dolly) of GREAT BRITAIN Duchess of Teck) on 6 Jul 1893 in Chapel Royal St.Queen Mary, London, England.
Mary May (Victoria) of TECK Queen of England was christened in 1867 in England-Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes.
She was born on 26 May 1867 in England - dtr of Francis Duke of Teck.
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 20TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Princess Mary Adelaide (Dolly) of GREAT BRITAIN Duchess of Teck was born in 1833 in England - dtr of Adolphus of Cambridge.
She was married to Prince Francis Paul Louis Duke of TECK-CAMBRIDGE (son of Alexander of WURTTEMBERG Duke and Countess Claudine RHEDEY) in 1866 in England?.
Prince Francis Paul Louis Duke of TECK-CAMBRIDGE was born in 1837 in Teck, Germany son of Prince Alexander.
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 Coronation of Rama VI
Prince Alexander of Teck (Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone) (1874-1957), son of Francis, Duke of Teck and his wife, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, and youngest brother of Queen Mary, consort of King George V of Great Britain, married to Princess Alice of Albany (see No. 8).
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877-1943), son of Grand Duke Vladimir ROMANOV and Grand Duchess Marie PAVLOVNA, and grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, married to Zenaida RASHEVSKA.
Princess Marie of Sweden (Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia) (1890-1958), daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, and grand daughter of Tsar of Russia Alexander II Nicholaievitch, was married to Prince Vilhelm of Sweden (No. 10).
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 Edward VIII — FactMonster.com
George VI The ex-king was granted the title of duke of Windsor.
In World War II the duke went to France as a major general, serving briefly as a liaison officer between British and French headquarters.
Gloucester, Henry William Frederick Albert, duke of - Gloucester, Henry William Frederick Albert, duke of, 1900–1974, British prince; third son of...
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 Duke & Duchess of Cornwall and York, and Preparations: Royal Visits: Heritage Resources
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (1901)
All across the country great preparations were being made for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York.
Caverhill Hall, the residence of R. Keltie Jones,Esq., would be the residence of the Duke and Duchess.
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 Queen Mary
Born Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck at Kensington Palace, the daughter of the impoverished Francis, Duke of Teck, she was a great-granddaughter of King George III and a first cousin once removed of Queen Victoria.
Despite her Serene Highness rank (her beloved father was the product of a morganatic marriage that left him questionably semi-royal), Princess Mary (May) of Teck was at first engaged, in 1891, to Prince "Eddy", Duke of Clarence, the elder son of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom).
The duchess was her niece, the former Lady Mary Cambridge (1897-1987), elder daughter of Adolphus, 2nd Duke of Teck and 1st Marquess of Cambridge).
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 Mary of Teck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (created Countess von Hohenstein in the Austrian Empire).
Mary of Teck (1901–1910) · Alexandra of Denmark (1863–1901) · Caroline of Brunswick (1795–1820) · Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1736–1751) · Caroline of Ansbach (1714–1727) · Catherine of Aragon (1501–1502) · Anne Neville (1470–1471) · Joan of Kent (1361–1376)
Mary of Teck (1910-1936) · Alexandra of Denmark (1901-1910) · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840-1861) · Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1830-1837) · Caroline of Brunswick (1820-1821) · Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1761-1818) · Caroline of Ansbach (1727-1760) · George, Duke of Cumberland (1702-1708)
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 George V
In 1891, Prince Albert Victor became engaged to his first cousin once removed, Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary of Teck ("Princess May"), the only daughter of His Serene Highness Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck.
As Duke and Duchess of York, George and May carried out a wide variety of public duties.
For the rest of that year, George was styled Duke of Cornwall and York, until November 9, 1901 when he was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
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 Muzeum Zamkowe w Pszczynie, Poland. Daisy of Pless: The Happy Years - an exhibition of photographs from the Lafayette ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Son of the unequal marriage of his father, a royal duke of Württemberg, with the Hungarian Countess Claudine Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde, from whom it was said that the Duke of Teck inherited his dark good looks, the young and impecunious soldier was married in 1866 to Princess Mary Adelaide, granddaughter King George III.
Having missed the opportunity of marrying his daughter to one of the richest princes of Germany, the Duke of Teck aimed even higher and Mary became engaged to Prince Albert Victor, the unstable and apathetic eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
In this image the Duke wears a costume, which is an accurate representation of a French high-ranking soldier’s uniform of c.
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 Nwowatcher is the leading resource for topics of political conspiracy, mythology, symbolism, activism, and the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ALBERT EDWARD, Prince of Wales, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Cobourg and Gotha, Duke of Cornwall, Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carrick, and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles, K.G., b.
His Royal Highness was born Duke of Cornwall, under the terms of the original creation of Edward III., who conferred the title on his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, with limitation to him and his heirs, eldest sons and heirs apparent to the crown of England for ever.
The names "Guelph" and "Ghibelline" appear to have originated in Germany, in the rivalry between the house of Welf (Dukes of Bavaria) and the house of Hohenstaufen (Dukes of Swabia), whose ancestral castle was Waiblingen in Franconia.
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 NPG 4441; The Duke and Duchess of Teck receiving officers of the Indian Contingent, 1882 (Mrs William Edgar; Sir Henry ...
NPG 4441; The Duke and Duchess of Teck receiving officers of the Indian Contingent, 1882 (Mrs William Edgar; Sir Henry Bartle Frere, 1st Bt; Francis, Prince and Duke of Teck; Sir Charles Richard Pennington; Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone; Queen Mary; Mar...)
Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck (1833-1897), Mother of Queen Mary.
Francis, Prince and Duke of Teck (1837-1900), Major-General.
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 Royal Insight > July 2003 > Mailbox > Page 2
In their capacity as rangers of the royal parks, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, and the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) were allocated residences.
Queen Mary's father was Prince Franz of Teck, son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg, a state in southwestern Germany.
Under the patronage of the Emperor and Empress of Austria, he was made a Serene Highness in 1863 and given the title of Prince of Teck, a subsidiary name of the Württemberg royal house.
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 The Muse of the Monarchy
Mainly, this was all she expected in marriage as though her mother was a cousin of Queen Victoria her father, the Duke of Teck, was born of a morganatic union.
This put the Duke of Teck in the awkward position of having a worthy bloodline with no means of support.
Prince Eddy, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, was born two months premature and had always been considered physically and mentally weak.
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