Queen Mary's coiffure

[LouisFerdinand]

King George V of England insisted his wife keep her coiffure because he wanted her to grow old looking exactly as she had looked when they had first become engaged.     
Queen Mary's coiffure was a poodle hairstyle.       
   

Queen Mary: A perfect hairstyle     
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/395402042261974638

[Curryong]

King George V of England insisted his wife keep her coiffure because he wanted her to grow old looking exactly as she had looked when they had first become engaged.     
Queen Mary's coiffure was a poodle hairstyle.       
   

Queen Mary: A perfect hairstyle     
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/395402042261974638

^ Yes, the King certainly didn't like change. Queen Mary did begin,rather bizarrely, to put permanent waves in her hair in old age but it was still the same basic shape.

There's the old story of course of Queen Mary, who was rather proud of her shapely legs, deciding in the 1920's that she would quite like to shorten her hems to lower calf length. However she wouldn't do this without King George V's permission. So she and Lady Airlie, her old friend and LIW, decided that Lady Airlie would be the sacrificial lamb and walk around in a shorter skirt than usual to see whether the King would comment on the length. George didn't like it at all, so that little change was off-limits!

[LouisFerdinand]

Princess Mary's hairstyle when she was engaged to Prince Albert Victor   
An engagement photo of Prince Albert Victor and Princess May of Teck. She would later marry his younger brother after his death and become Queen Ma? |

[Curryong]

May wore the poodle cut (with at first a false fringe) and variations of, practically all of her adult life.

[TLLK]

May wore the poodle cut (with at first a false fringe) and variations of, practically all of her adult life.

:eyes: The fringe(bangs) were fake??? Oh well humans have been using supplemental hair for centuries so I should not be too surprised.

[LouisFerdinand]

Did Queen Mary's daughter, Princess Mary ever wear the poodle cut?

[TLLK]

Princess Mary Countess Of Harewood Pictures and Photos | Getty Images

Here are some old photos of Mary including some from her youth. Hard to say if she did.

[Curryong]

The poodle cut was a hair style of the 1880s and very early 1890s, though Mary wore variations of it all her adult life. The majority of the hair was slicked back and then pinned at the back of the head into a mini French roll. The front hair was frizzled by heating tongs into a sort of round pouff like poodles are clipped today, or women sometimes pinned a frizzled false fringe to the front which had the same effect. King George more or less liked Mary to keep to similar styles to their youth, so even in the 1920s and 1930s she didn't wear skirts that were higher than lower leg and although her hair was waved it still resembled the way she'd worn it when they were first married.

Their daughter Mary never wore the poodle cut. Although a conservative young women her hairstyles were reasonably up to date.

[LouisFerdinand]

Princess Mary Countess Of Harewood Pictures and Photos | Getty Images

Here are some old photos of Mary including some from her youth. Hard to say if she did.

@TLLK, Wonderful pictures of Princess Mary!