Queen Mary Signed Autograph Photo 1911-1912 in Antique Ormolu Frame

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Signed unusually without the customary "R", suggesting it was given to a fellow royal. 1911 was the year King George V and Queen Mary went India for the Delhi Durbar. "Mary 1911-12" She was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in England. Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, who was a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after her birth month. At the age of 24, she was betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly of pneumonia. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's next surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales. On 22 March 1911, a royal proclamation announced that the Durbar would be held in December to commemorate the coronation in Britain a few months earlier of George V and Mary of Teck and allow their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India. Practically every ruling prince and nobleman in India, plus thousands of landed gentry and other persons of note, attended to pay obeisance to their sovereigns. Queen Mary supported her husband through World War I, his ill health and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war, and the rise of socialism and nationalism.

After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward, ascended the throne, but to her dismay, he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as George VI, until his death in 1952.

She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned. Size of photo: 14 x 9.5 cm approx Size of frame: 32.5 x 24 cm approx. Photos form part of the description. International items may take longer. Bibelotslondon cannot be held responsible for items lost abroad. The item "Queen Mary Signed Autograph Photo 1911-1912 in Antique Ormolu Frame" is in sale since Monday, March 12, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectables\Autographs\Uncertified Originals\Historical". The seller is "bibelotslondon" and is located in London. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Sub-Type: Royalty
• Type: Historical
• Object: Signed Photos