Queen Mary

Biography

Mary of Teck was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 1910 to 1936, as the wife of King George V. Born in Kensington, she was raised in Belgravia and became Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales before her husband's accession. She supported her husband through the First World War and subsequent political changes, and became Queen Consort until her husband's death in 1936.