![]() ![]() ![]() Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was a jovial, good-natured and popular member of the royal family, but due to her rapidly expanding girth, the Cambridge family had been hard-pressed to find a husband for her. As a consequence of his mother not being a princess of royal blood, Prince Francis was debarred from inheriting his father's rights to the kingdom of Württemberg. Her granddaughter, Queen Mary, later erected a tablet to her memory at the small church of Erdo Szent Gyorgy in Transylvania, where the countess was buried. Later known as Countess von Hohenstein, she died tragically in 1841 at Vienna when her horse bolted whilst watching a review of troops, she was thrown and trampled to death by passing cavalry. ![]() Her father, considered a very handsome young man and at the time a Prince of Teck, was the son of Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, by his morganatic union with the beautiful Transylvanian countess, Claudia Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde. The mother of the new arrival to the Royal family was the first cousin of Queen Victoria, being the younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, (the youngest surviving son of King George III) and Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. Due to her father's morganatic descent from the House of Württemberg, she was known by the title Serene Highness and was christened with the names Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) stood as godparents. Princess Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26th May 1867, the daughter of Francis Paul, Duke of Teck and Mary Adelaide, formerly a princess of Cambridge. ![]()
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