Spotlight 0n... Queen Mary
Queen Mary, whose 72nd birthday is tomorrow, suffered bruises and a shaking when the Royal car in which she was riding cap- $ sized after a collision in London. Mother of 'the present King George VI, Queen Mary was born on May 26, 1867, the only daughter of H.H. Francis Paul Charles Loitis Alexander, Duke of^Teck. She married the Duke of York (afterwards King George V) on July 6, 1893, and the coronation took place on June 22, 1911. < Her Majesty has many Royal orders and decorations. ' She is Colonel-in-Chief of the 12/18th Queen Mary’s Own Hussars, and of the 100th (Worcestershire and Oxford Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, T.A., and the Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), and is Hon. Colonel of the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, and Commandant-in-CUief of Queen Mary’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
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Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 6
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140Spotlight 0n... Queen Mary Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 6
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