• Bain's date on negative:
    7/1/14. - Wystan

Princess of Teck (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Princess of Teck

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16419

Call Number: LC-B2- 3124-12

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    ooh mamma mia, Yoyo-Yolanda, jake_sylvester, kluehirschSnowpine, and 17 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Film&PhotoArchivist (20 months ago | reply)

    AKA: MAry of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V. By birth, she was a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, with the style Serene Highness (Per Wiki).

  3. Cassies grandma (20 months ago | reply)

    So she would be the present queen's grandmother?

  4. Film&PhotoArchivist (20 months ago | reply)

    Yes. For about 3 years, England technically had 3 queens once Elizabeth II took the crown.

  5. Cassies grandma (20 months ago | reply)

    she was a very pretty lady

  6. rjones0856 (20 months ago | reply)

    I dunno -- if this picture is current with the others, Queen Mary would have been about 50 yrs old by this time (and frankly, was never this pretty). I think the lady in the photo might be this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerset,_Duchess_ of_Beaufort , who would have been Queen Mary's niece, and daughter of the Prince of Teck in the next photo.

  7. Film&PhotoArchivist (20 months ago | reply)

    But between 1910-15 there was only one Princess of Teck (Mary) who would have been in her 40's at the time.

  8. rjones0856 (20 months ago | reply)

    According to Wikipedia -- maybe not authoritative, but I don't know enough to argue -- Mary Somerset was baptized Princess Mary von Teck in 1897, and thus would have been about 17 years old in 1914, which I can believe in that photo. The other Mary was exactly thirty years older and already Queen Consort in 1914, so unless this was an old photo they wouldn't have referred to her as "Princess."

    I'm certainly no authority on European royalty, but I don't think the woman in this picture is the same as the one in these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck

  9. Cassies grandma (20 months ago | reply)

    Here is a young picture from wiki of Mary of Teck. Who was Elizabeth's grandmother---I think!
    480px-Victoria_Mary_of_Teck

  10. BeautifulMaria (20 months ago | reply)

    Yes, Cassies grandma, your photo is May of Teck, the wife of Queen Victoria's grandson, the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. The other Princess of Teck is NOT May of Teck.

  11. swanq (20 months ago | reply)

    I believe she is the wife of Prince Alexander of Teck,
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice,_Countes s_of_Athlone

  12. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (20 months ago | reply)

    We determined last time she was:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice,_Countes s_of_Athlone
    Princess Alexander of Teck

  13. jiffyslot (20 months ago | reply)

    Neato!

  14. This photo was invited and added to the Supreme Awesomeness! Post Some/Award None. group.

  15. Film&PhotoArchivist (20 months ago | reply)

    "The queen on her throne plays shirley bassey
    Records when she's all on her own . . ."
    - BB

  16. McRobbieSturrock (20 months ago | reply)

    I saw her funeral procession in London when I was a little kid

  17. Kristi (LOC P&P) (19 months ago | reply)

    Thanks to all for working on this one!

    swanq & Richard Arthur Norton,

    I agree that this is Princess Alexander of Teck. We have several other photographs of her in the Bain Collection, including this one, where she is identified as Princess Alexander of Teck. She was the wife of this gentleman, Prince Alexander of Teck. Her title changed when his did, in 1917, and after that she was known as Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.

    We will update the record with her more complete name.

  18. cjackson77us (17 months ago | reply)

    She is absolutely beautiful, whoever she is.

  19. hotgirlcute (16 months ago | reply)

    she is so beautiful :)
    cute girl
    girl xinh
    marketing
    guitar
    hot girl

  20. LastOfTheTimeLords (15 months ago | reply)

    She is wearing the coronet that she wore at the coronation of her cousin, King George V, in 1911.

  21. swanq (15 months ago | reply)

    It looks as though she is wearing two pieces of headgear.
    entertainment.webshots.com/photo/243709266009 4285158lUAiUl
    shows one of them worn separately.

    i29.photobucket.com/albums/c256/fajack/Alice1 911.jpg
    is a version of the same picture as here, showing better the long velvet train which could well have been her coronation garb. The assigned date of 1911 would be right for the coronation. I found it through a discussion thread at forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?action=pr intpage;topi...

  22. Cassies grandma (15 months ago | reply)

    www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/celebrity-int erviews/memo...
    I think this is about her. It's confusing!

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