Queen Mary — grandmother to Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s current monarch —.was the ultimate real-life queen of mean! The Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910-1936, nasty Mary gave friends recycled flowers, never loved her husband and couldn’t stand her own granddaughter Princess Margaret! Those are the shocking revelations of her official biographer James Pope-Hennessy, author of the blockbuster tell-all “The Quest for Queen Mary.” Mary was the wife of George V and died in 1953 at age 85. After she kicked the bucket, Pope-Hennessy interviewed her friends, family and royal courtiers, and kept notes of their confidential conversations. But he insisted his observations be kept secret for 50 years — and now they’ve dropped like a bombshell! Read on for details of Mary’s crankiness, and click here for more royal gossip….
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penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
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The
penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
What’s more, Mary hated her granddaughter Margaret (right, with Elizabeth)— the feeling was mutual — as well as the royal estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, according to Pope-Hennessy. She branded
her daughter's elder child Elizabeth dull as dishwater and said their conversations were “not worth the paper they could be typed on.”
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The
penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
What’s more, Mary hated her granddaughter Margaret (right, with Elizabeth)— the feeling was mutual — as well as the royal estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, according to Pope-Hennessy. She branded
her daughter's elder child Elizabeth dull as dishwater and said their conversations were “not worth the paper they could be typed on.”
Cynthia Colville, a long-serving lady-in-waiting, dished Queen Mary’s father, Francis, the Duke of Teck, died “insane,” and the snooty royal was never in love with her former fiancé, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence, nor with his younger brother, Prince George (right), whom she later married.
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Photo credit: Getty Images
The
penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
What’s more, Mary hated her granddaughter Margaret (right, with Elizabeth)— the feeling was mutual — as well as the royal estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, according to Pope-Hennessy. She branded
her daughter's elder child Elizabeth dull as dishwater and said their conversations were “not worth the paper they could be typed on.”
Cynthia Colville, a long-serving lady-in-waiting, dished Queen Mary’s father, Francis, the Duke of Teck, died “insane,” and the snooty royal was never in love with her former fiancé, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence, nor with his younger brother, Prince George (right), whom she later married.
The real love of Mary’s life was John Hope, the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, a distinguished statesman: “She loved him in such a way that she had no love left after that.”
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Photo credit: Getty Images
The
penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
What’s more, Mary hated her granddaughter Margaret (right, with Elizabeth)— the feeling was mutual — as well as the royal estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, according to Pope-Hennessy. She branded
her daughter's elder child Elizabeth dull as dishwater and said their conversations were “not worth the paper they could be typed on.”
Cynthia Colville, a long-serving lady-in-waiting, dished Queen Mary’s father, Francis, the Duke of Teck, died “insane,” and the snooty royal was never in love with her former fiancé, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence, nor with his younger brother, Prince George (right), whom she later married.
The real love of Mary’s life was John Hope, the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, a distinguished statesman: “She loved him in such a way that she had no love left after that.”
Pope-Hennessy also detailed Mary’s disdain for Sandringham, comparing the royal estate to a morgue. “Everywhere were their faces, painted, drawn or photographed: few pictures not directly relating to themselves,” he wrote.
The
penny-pinching royal “never bought flowers at the florist. She would go round picking them out of vases in her rooms, so that often they were dead the day after she brought them,” tattled the Marchioness of Cambridge.
Photo credit: Getty Images
What’s more, Mary hated her granddaughter Margaret (right, with Elizabeth)— the feeling was mutual — as well as the royal estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, according to Pope-Hennessy. She branded
her daughter's elder child Elizabeth dull as dishwater and said their conversations were “not worth the paper they could be typed on.”
Cynthia Colville, a long-serving lady-in-waiting, dished Queen Mary’s father, Francis, the Duke of Teck, died “insane,” and the snooty royal was never in love with her former fiancé, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence, nor with his younger brother, Prince George (right), whom she later married.
The real love of Mary’s life was John Hope, the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, a distinguished statesman: “She loved him in such a way that she had no love left after that.”
Pope-Hennessy also detailed Mary’s disdain for Sandringham, comparing the royal estate to a morgue. “Everywhere were their faces, painted, drawn or photographed: few pictures not directly relating to themselves,” he wrote.
