King George V and Queen Mary

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Tragic demise of Prince George, Duke of Kent   
Inside the tragic death of Prince George, Duke of Kent - Queen's cousins will mark today - YouTube   

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Signatures of the children of King George V   
Rare 1909 photog showing six children of King George V and Queen Mary featuring 'Lost Prince' John | Daily Mail Online   

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Princess Mary, The Princess Royal at a horse racing event in 1920   
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King George V and his son David   
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King George V and his son David   
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Princess Mary with Princess Alexander of Teck driving in a carriage in 1914   
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King Georgev V (then The Duke of York) with his dog circa 1895   
H.M. King George V (then the Duke of York.) with his dog c. 1895. | Royal life, King george iv, British royal family

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Queen Mary visited the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies in Woolwich in 1917   
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The christening of Prince Henry William of York at Windsor Castle 1900   
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Front cover of The Sphere May 4, 1935 featured King George V and Queen Mary     
Mary Evans Front cover of the Sphere's Silver Jubilee Number 10513104

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Queen Maud of Norway enjoying refreshments with King George V and   
Queen Mary and Prince George, Duke of Kent ~ Circa 1920s   
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In 1918 Princess Mary was stationed at the Alexandra Ward at Great Ormond Street.     
She wanted to be treated exactly the same as other trainees. No job was off limits.

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The Coronation of King George V of England occurred on June 22, 1911.   
When did Royal Ascot occur in June 1911?

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I believe the third week of June was established as Royal Week in 1911, with King George and Queen Mary and various other royals in attendance. It?s rather strange that King George should have done this as unlike his late father he wasn?t an admirer of horseflesh, nor a keen racegoer. Neither was Queen Mary. And neither of them were enthusiastic adherents of the social Season, which in those days was very grand indeed.

However, Royal Week became a tradition from 1911 on and Royal Ascot one of the events that heralded the end of the Season. By the beginning of August everyone who was anyone in that world were supposed to retreat to their country estates to celebrate the shooting of grouse, or to go to the seaside or travel abroad, do something away from a stifling London anyway.

This article is mostly about the Regency elite but it does mention the Season, which went hand in hand with when Parliament sat from the 17th century onwards. Royal Ascot was very much part of the late Season until the Second World War.

Regency History: When was the London season?

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During the First World War King George V and Queen Mary observed the same rationing as other Britons.

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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester could not properly pronounce the letter "R,"   
also known as rhotacism.

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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester could not properly pronounce the letter "R,"   
also known as rhotacism.

Yes, rhotacism seems to have affected several upperclass Englishmen over the centuries. King George VI, Gloucester?s older brother appears to have had a mild form. Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria?s first PM, and according to some sources the Prince Regent, were others.

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Edward, Prince of Wales riding his bicycle in 1911     
'The Future King Edward VIII Riding His Bicycle in 1911' Giclee Print | AllPosters.com | Edward viii, Victoria reign, Viii

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Queen Mary wrote of the proposal of Henry, Viscount Lascelles to Princess Mary: 
"Mary came to my room to announce to me her engagement to Lord Lascelles! We then told G.   
(King George V) and then gave Harry L. our blessing."

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Queen Mary wrote of the proposal of Henry, Viscount Lascelles to Princess Mary: 
"Mary came to my room to announce to me her engagement to Lord Lascelles! We then told G.   
(King George V) and then gave Harry L. our blessing."

Well in actual fact George V was highly delighted at the marriage and not just as a fond father. Point 1. Henry Lascelles was years older than Mary but was a fine shot and George enjoyed shooting, especially on the Harewood estates.

Point 2. The Harewood family were very wealthy, while the BRF had lost investments abroad in WW1 and the royal couple were known to be supporting relatives in the extended family who had lost their money in the ruin of imperial Russia and Germany. George V was friendly with a great many wealthy aristos and others and so Mary having a wealthy husband probably set him purring.

Lascelles, who looked like a melancholy bloodhound, had had an unrequited love for another aristocratic woman. There was a rumour in the London Clubs at the time of his engagement that he had accepted a financial wager from a friend that he propose to Prss Mary and be accepted. So, the story goes, he did.

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Queen Mary had three sons predecease her. 

From Wiki.

In 1952, George VI died, the third of Queen Mary's children to predecease her; her eldest granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth, ascended the throne as Queen Elizabeth II. The death of a third child profoundly affected her. Mary remarked to Princess Marie Louise: "I have lost three sons through death, but I have never been privileged to be there to say a last farewell to any of them.??

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Who was the aristocratic woman that Henry, Viscount Lascelles had an unrequited love for?

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Who was the aristocratic woman that Henry, Viscount Lascelles had an unrequited love for?

When he was in his twenties he supposedly fell in love with Vita Sackville-West, later the author, garden designer and lover of many, including Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. She wouldn?t have been suitable at all to marry and he was better off with Mary and she with her husband, diplomat and author Harold Nicholson. She grew up in a magnificent old country house though, Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent, which later passed out of her family?s hands.

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Queen Mary visited a Welsh mine in the 1920s.   
Queen Mary of Great Britain visits a Welsh mine while workers lift their hats to salute her. 1920's Stock Photo - Alamy

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Valuables were hidden at aristocratic homes. Queen Mary knew what she liked.   
QUEEN MARY KNEW WHAT SHE LIKED - YouTube