She later trained as a nurse, and worked two days a week at the Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London. During World War I, Mary devoted herself to charity work, visiting hospitals and launching fundraising campaigns to support British soldiers and sailors.

The only daughter of George V and Queen Mary. They lived abroad until his death in 1972. After his abdication, he was named Duke of Windsor and married Simpson in 1937. Edward’s reign lasted just 326 days, one of the shortest in British history. Unable to marry Simpson and remain on the throne, Edward abdicated in December of 1936, and was succeeded by his younger brother Albert, Queen Elizabeth’s father, who would go on to become King George VI. As monarch, Edward was head of the Church of England, which at the time did not allow divorced people with a living former spouse to remarry in the church, and thus the government opposed the marriage. It is permissible to use a link that directs to Unofficial Royalty.The eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, Edward became king after his father’s death in 1936, but threw the country into crisis months later when he proposed to Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée.

This article is the intellectual property of Unofficial Royalty and is NOT TO BE COPIED, EDITED, OR POSTED IN ANY FORM ON ANOTHER WEBSITE under any circumstances. Gertrudes Eulália de Toledo (1829 – 1854).Francisco Antonio de Barros (1810 – 1863).Matildes Martins Aguiar de Campos (1815 – ?).Joaquim Floriano de Toledo (1815 – 1874).Catharine Marie Christine Prien (1797 – 1855).Caroline Friederike Pröpping (1790 – 1852).Johannes Heinrich Philipp Sommerlath (1800 – 1884).Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835 – 1900).Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1829 – 1880).Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821 – 1899).Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814 – 1885).Princess Helena of Nassau (1831 – 1888).Georg Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831 – 1893).Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837 – 1906).Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828 – 1885).Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819 – 1901).Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819 – 1861).Princess Louise of Prussia (1838 -1923).Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826 – 1907).Princess Sophia of Nassau (1836 – 1913).Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, twice great-great-great-grandparents Credit – Wikipedia

The links below are from Unofficial Royalty, Wikipedia, Leo’s Genealogics Website, The Peerage, or Geni. Unofficial Royalty: Kingdom of Sweden Index.Unofficial Royalty: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.Parents, Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Great-Great-Grandparents, and Great-Great-Great-Grandparents of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden (born July 14, 1977) On the side of her mother Queen Silvia, born Silvia Sommerlath in Heidelberg, Germany, Crown Princess Victoria has a German maternal grandfather, Walther Sommerlath, and a Brazilian maternal grandmother, Alice Soares de Toledo. Among Victoria’s ancestors from the last six generations are monarchs of the current monarchies of Sweden and the United Kingdom and the monarchs of the former German monarchies of Anhalt, Baden, German Empire, Nassau, Prussia, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Schaumburg-Lippe, and Waldeck-Pyrmont. On the side of Victoria’s father King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, all her ancestors from the last six generations are royal except for one great-great-great-great-grandmother Countess Louise Sophie of Danneskiold-Samsøe who was a member of a Danish noble family descended illegitimately from King Christian V of Denmark and his mistress Sophie Amalie Moth. Her paternal grandmother Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the daughter of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the son of Queen Victoria’s son Prince Leopold of the United Kingdom, Duke of Albany. Her paternal grandfather Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten was the son of Princess Margaret of Connaught, the daughter of Queen Victoria’s son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden Credit – Wikipediaīoth of Crown Princess Victoria’s paternal grandparents were great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

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