
Book review: Becoming Queen Mary: Volume I: Birth to First Engagement: 1867-1892 by Kori Roff-Lawrence
*contains affiliate links* The formidable Queen Mary was born Princess Mary of Teck on 26 May 1867 as the eldest child of Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and Prince Francis of Teck, later Duke of Teck, at Kensington Palace. She would be known as May in the family, and after a tragic engagement with Prince [read more]