Queen Mary Road, Salisbury

Queen Mary was the wife of George V.

She was born Victoria Teck in 1867 in Kensington Palace (in the same room that Queen Victoria was born in), and was known as Victoria Mary until she became Queen.¹

She was engaged to Queen Victoria’s eldest grandson, the Duke of Clarence, until he died suddenly in 1892. She was then engaged to his brother the Duke of York in 1893, and the couple married shortly after.

The Duke and Duchess of York became King George V and Queen Mary in 1910, on the death of Edward VII.

She had six children – Edward (Edward VIII), Albert (George VI), Mary, Henry, George and John. Queen Mary was the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth.

Charlie Teck

From memory, ‘Teck’ was the name adopted by Prince Charles in Sue Townsend’s novel ‘The Queen and I’. In the book, a republican government abolishes the monarchy and re-locates the (ex-) royal family to a Council Estate.

Prince Charles adopts the name of his great grandmother, and shortens his first name to ‘Charlie Teck’.

Footnotes

1. Frank Prochaska, ?Mary (1867?1953)?, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [Oxford DNB article: Mary, accessed 6 Jan 2009] [↩]