Mary of Teck queen consort of King George V

A requiem mass was held for JOH at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown . She was buried...

Pearl was taken seriously ill on their honeymoon to Cannes. On the journey back to England she had to be carried on a litter. She was lame and on crutches for a time, and...

Sybil Thorndike presided over the dinner, and Queen Mary sent her congratulations. EC was presented with a cheque and a scroll signed by two hundred friends. Playwright Cicely Hamilton was among the speakers who paid...

She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer

FK was a collector of dolls'-house furniture, which she rightly regarded as a legitimate art form. She did much to publicise the Queen's Dolls' House (given as a gift to Queen Mary by Princess Marie Louise

VT , like Alice Keppel , spent part of the war at endless parties, even if in wartime conditions none of them could compete with her parties at the Eiffel Tower. Her re-entry...

John Jock Murray and Sir Sydney Cockerell initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the...

Along with acting, MLR continued to work as a producer. On 15 March 1920 her production of Come out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller opened at the Strand Theatre . This domestic comedy...

The protesters marched to Buckingham Palace, where King George V and Queen Mary appeared on the balcony.

When first married, CADS lived in a luxurious home at 2 Bennet Street in London. Her husband was often called out suddenly to nearby St James's Palace to attend on members of the royal...

The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...

During the early 1920s VSW was invited by Queen Mary to provide a text for the collection in her famous dolls' house. Sackville-West obliged with a tiny-weeny handwritten book, A Note of Explanation, which...

At the invitation of Queen Mary , VSW contributed a tiny miniature book during the early 1922 for the library shelves of the queen's celebrated dolls' house at Windsor Castle. Entitled A Note of...

MFB credits Queen Mary and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war. She records...