Princess Mary of Teck to wed

Princess Mary (Victoria Mary) of Teck was the Queen Consort of King George V of England.
Suppose that she was not betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Suppose that she was not betrothed to Prince George, Duke of York.
Who marries Princess Mary of Teck?
 
Princess Mary (Victoria Mary) of Teck was the Queen Consort of King George V of England.
Suppose that she was not betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Suppose that she was not betrothed to Prince George, Duke of York.
Who marries Princess Mary of Teck?

Mary's best chance was to marry to a British aristocrat sufficiently impressed by her semi royal status and connection to the Royal Family. Her lack of fortune made her a difficult sell to the aristocracy in those days, when increasingly British aristocrats were looking to American heiresses to fill the family coffers and help restore the family estates.

No continental prince would have looked twice at her given her morganatic status.
 
Not to mention, she was considered very plain and a bit boring [including by her 'Aunt-Queen' Victoria] so, if there had been no interest in keeping things in the family and not going to the Continent re Royal Heir Presumptive bride hunting, she may have wound up with a [barely]titled spouse considered just as dull by others.
 
Yup not a chance of a royal match for May as she was known in the family.
She was popular with the Queen who admired her given the rather difficult life she had with her spendthrift and loud parents (the Queen was always a bit jealous of Mary Adelaide's popularity with the public).
Victoria herself had asked about the possiblity of May's father succeeding to the Wurttemburg throne (given the succession crisis there) largely to help the Teck's out of the financial mess they were in but it was pointedly rebuffed and she was reminded of his morganatic status.

George V's personal desire at the time had led him to another cousin -Princess Marie (Missy) daughter of his uncle Alfred - Alfred and the Prince of Wales were quite keen on the idea though she was a good bit younger. Missy's mother Marie of Russia (who had found the British Court so difficult) was very quick to find an alternative and the teenaged Missy was soon married to the King of Roumania's nephew.

George's brother Albert Victor had briefly thought of marrying Alix of Hesse though and the Queen was keen but Alix refused.
 
Yup not a chance of a royal match for May as she was known in the family.
She was popular with the Queen who admired her given the rather difficult life she had with her spendthrift and loud parents (the Queen was always a bit jealous of Mary Adelaide's popularity with the public).
Victoria herself had asked about the possiblity of May's father succeeding to the Wurttemburg throne (given the succession crisis there) largely to help the Teck's out of the financial mess they were in but it was pointedly rebuffed and she was reminded of his morganatic status.

George V's personal desire at the time had led him to another cousin -Princess Marie (Missy) daughter of his uncle Alfred - Alfred and the Prince of Wales were quite keen on the idea though she was a good bit younger. Missy's mother Marie of Russia (who had found the British Court so difficult) was very quick to find an alternative and the teenaged Missy was soon married to the King of Roumania's nephew.

George's brother Albert Victor had briefly thought of marrying Alix of Hesse though and the Queen was keen but Alix refused.

One of the things that is so often forgotten is that George V did not automatically inherit May.

After his brother's death, he actually proposed to Missy and upon the instruction of her mother, she declined. She was quickly rushed off to Berlin and forced to accept a proposal from Ferdinand of Romania, who in the Duchess's eyes was a more acceptable candidate, simply because he wasn't British.

The weird thing is the Duchess genuinely liked George and the feeling was reciprocated, when she died in 1920, George wrote that Maria Alexandrovna had been like a second mother to him, partly raising him, while he lived in Malta where the Edinburgh's were based in the 1880s.

Missy's refusal caused a very big stink and a falling out between the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh, even though in fairness the Duke would have loved to see his daughter as the future British Queen.

Victoria only pushed George towards May after the whole debacle to try and move matters along and get George married.
 
Princess Mary may marry John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch.
If Princess Mary marries John, she would have a mother-in-law, Lady Louisa, who served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria from 1885-1892.
 
Princess Mary may marry Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael.
He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1904 to 1908 and of the National Gallery from 1906 to 1908 and from 1923 to 1926.
 
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