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FEMAIL recalls the life of the Queen's aunt Princess Mary as she's finally given her own biography


Although she was the daughter, sister and aunt of monarchs, Princess Mary has largely been neglected in the national memory.
But a new biography, the first one to be dedicated solely to the Princess Royal, hopes to change that by finally offering a detailed look at her life as well as never previously known information.
The Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess, set to be released on February 5, presents the British royal as the princess who redefined the role for the modern age , laying the foundations for the likes of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, was the first child of a British monarch to train and work as a nurse, the first female chancellor of a university and the first female honorary General of the British Army, according to Tatler. ....

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'Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess' by Elisabeth Basford review


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Esteemed royal biographer Hugo Vickers approves of Elisabeth Basford’s biography of Princess Mary, the Princess Royal and the Countess of Harewood. It’s praise indeed from someone with such a rich interest in the subject; after all, Vickers edited James Pope-Hennessy’s
The Quest for Queen Mary on the subject of Princess Mary’s mother.
Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess is the first full biography of Princess Mary (b. 1897), the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, who Basford argues redefined the role of ‘princess’ for the modern age. Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who reviewed the book in the ....

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How Mary, George V's daughter, became a very modern princess


How Mary, George V’s daughter, became a very modern princess
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Mary‘s obituaries called her ‘unobtrusive and purposeful’. But was her life an unremarkable thing, or a shining example of royal duty?
Mary, Princess Royal, working as a nurse during the First World War
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The wicked make good copy. Virtue, by contrast, inspires less compelling narratives. In 1965, while the paparazzi were chasing Princess Margaret, her aunt Mary, Princess Royal, died of a heart attack at the age of 67. The obituaries of George V’s only daughter paid tribute to a life “active, unobtrusive and purposeful”.
It sounds unpromising stuff, but Elisabeth Basford’s account of this mostly forgotten princess celebrates a woman who, with understated charm, combined ideals with practicality, gentleness with a stiff upper lip, and an unshakeable sense of duty with self-effacement. Alec Douglas-Home claimed that Mary “personified everything which to all of us s ....

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