Queen Mary Pt 3

[royal_netherlands]

Fantastic anecdote!!!! never heared it before thank you fore sharing.
I think Mary had quit some humour.

RN

[Romanov_fan]

She was a great very, dutiful Queen consort. She sort of instilled the modern ideas about duty into the British royal family, as it were. Her beauty was said to be more in her colouring than anything else. And having seen a portrait of her in a book, I agree. I think it was her coranation portrait, at the time of her husband's coronation. She was still fairly young then. She was rather emotionaless in private, and as a mother. However, she knew her duty in public and performed it. She had a good heart.

[royal_netherlands]

Found this one on Ebay, isn't she a beaty.

RN

[Keith]

I saw that on ebay also. It really is one of the best pictures I've seen of her younger.

[Romanov_fan]

Yes, she was stunning when she was younger. She looks so prim in many photos taken later, that you forget what a beauty she really was. She was quite pleasant looking all her life, actually.

[royal_netherlands]

Queen Mary and King George V with four of their childeren: Albert Duke of York (King George VI),Prince Edward of Wales (King Edward VIII),Prince Henry of Cloucester, and their only daughter Princess Mary The Princess Royal in the early twinties.

The Duke of Windsor with his Mother, Queen Mary in the year 1952.

The Duke of Windsor,  and his younger sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal on their arrival in Southampton on the "Queen Elizabeth". The Princess had curtailed her tour of the West Indies and the Duke had brought forward a visit to London because of the illness of Queen Mary, their mother. Queen Mary died in March 1953. 
 
In the last picture, Princess Mary resembles her niece Queen Elizabeth II don''t you think?
Was their still a good relation between the Duke of Windsor and his Mother Queen Mary and his sister The Princess Royal?

RN

[royal_netherlands]

At the GREM are some nice picture of HM Queen Mary (Including one of Queen Mary at the balcony of BP with the wedding of Duke of York and Alexandra is their to WOOOh!!!!) .http://members3.boardhost.com/Oranjes/
 Because Queen Mary became The Most Glittering Queen of the 20th Century,(and desirves it) here are a few in honour to this magnificent Queen.
Hope you like the pictures.


http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f78/opzich/Royals%20past%20and%20present/QM1.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f78/opzich/Royals%20past%20and%20present/QMJewels2.jpg

RN

[Romanov_fan]

Well, she may not have been the most glittering Queen, but she certainly was the role model for those who were consorts or who are. She was dutiful, aware of her public image, and devoted to the monarchy at the expense of herself. She was also very proper, and had manners. She never was attached to the faintest hint of scandal. She was a great role model for a consort!

[Eddie_uk]

She was dutiful, aware of her public image, and devoted to the monarchy at the expense of herself. She was also very proper, and had manners. She was a great role model for a consort!

I agree!! Though I think she was very glittering, all those jewels she carried off beautifully!!

[Romanov_fan]

She did like jewels, and she did look lovely in them. She also liked Antiques as well.

[Taren]

She did like jewels, and she did look lovely in them. She also liked Antiques as well.

Yeah -other peoples' antiques! 

[ashdean]

I think those stories are very,very exaggerated....just like the stories she made off with the Dowager Empresses jewels !!!!!

[Romanov_fan]

It seems they well might have been exaggerated stories. But they are legend, are they not?

[boffer]

I stumbled across this picture and thought it utterly charming:


"a kiss from grannie"

[Eddie_uk]

Lovely photo! Did Princess Margaret ever comment much on her grandmother? Be interested to know what her thoughts were..