>>> Well, we not long ago finished watching the PBS "The
Royals" again.
>>> That was interesting.  Went into great length about how painful public
>>> speaking  was for George V.
>>
>>Was that the one about George V & Mary?
>
>One of 'em.  Whole series about the whole family, really.  Mary was
>something!  Hanging around London, poking through the rubble, talking with
>the common folk.

Mary didn't do that, she was far too shy, that was George VI and Elizabeth

>  Bless her.  On her 100th birthday, a bunch of us went to
>the King's Head, a British pub just north of St. Augustine, to hoist one to
>the Queen Mum!
>
Mary didn't live to be 100 - that was Queen Elizabeth, the mother of the
present Queen, and it was Queen Elizabeth who was named Queen Mum
>
Victoria and Albert
Edward VII and Alexandra
George V and Mary
Edward VIII
George VI and Elizabeth
Elizabeth II and Philip
>
Victoria came to the throne at 18 in 1837, died 1901
Edward died 1909 was supposed to be King Albert, but refused, called
"Bertie" by his family. He is the Prince of Wales depicted in
"The Duchess
of Duke Street" who broke off his relationship with Louisa when he became
king. His wife, Alexandra, was Danish, and profoundly deaf.
George died 1935, killed by an overdose of morphine administered by his
doctor. He had been the second son. His wife, Mary, had been engaged to his
older brother, Albert, who died suddenly, which is just as well because
George and Mary had fallen in love and Albert was into drugs,  prositutes,
and transvestites
Edward abdicated 1936, called "David" by his family, became the Duke of
Windsor after he abdicated
George died 1952, stuttered, called "Bertie" by his family, another second
son who turned out to be a better man than the intended heir, his wife,
Elizabeth, was a Scottish laird's daughter who nursed wounded soldiers
during the First World War, kept the spirits of the nation up during the
Second World War, and lived to be 102.
Elizabeth is still there aged 77. She invented the title "Queen Mother" for
her mother because "Dowager Queen" sounded dowdy, and Elizabeth
was anything
but dowdy, even as a heartbroken widow.

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