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CodeDS/UK/14368
NameSomerset; Victoria Constance Mary (1897-1987); Duchess of Beaufort; British daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge
AliasMary von Teck | Princess Mary of Teck | The Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge
Dates1897-1987
GenderFemale (cisgender)
BiographyVictoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (née Princess Mary of Teck and later The Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge) (12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987) was the daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor.

Princess Mary was born at White Lodge, Richmond Park. She was baptised with the name of Mary von Teck and in 1917 her name was legally changed to Mary Cambridge when her father renounced all his German titles. She was a bridesmaid, as Lady Mary Cambridge, at the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 3 May 1923.

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