Lady May (Helen Emma) Abel Smith (née Cambridge, born Princess May of Teck; 23 January 1906 – 29 May 1994) was a descendant of the British Royal Family, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess May was born at Claremont House, near Esher in Surrey, England. Her parents were Prince Alexander of Teck (later the 1st Earl of Athlone), the youngest son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. Her mother was Pri...
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Lady May (Helen Emma) Abel Smith (née Cambridge, born Princess May of Teck; 23 January 1906 – 29 May 1994) was a descendant of the British Royal Family, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess May was born at Claremont House, near Esher in Surrey, England. Her parents were Prince Alexander of Teck (later the 1st Earl of Athlone), the youngest son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. Her mother was Princess Alexander of Teck (née Princess Alice of Albany), the daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria and his wife, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
As a daughter of Prince Alexander of Teck, May was styled Her Serene Highness Princess May of Teck at birth.
During World War I, anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom led Princess May's cousin, King George V, to change the name of the royal house from the Germanic House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more English-sounding House of Windsor. The King also...
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