26 メアリー王妃のドールハウス♪

1867年5月26日 に、イギリス国王ジョージ5世の妻メアリー妃誕生♪

結婚前のメアリー・オブ・テック

メアリー・オブ・テックは、フリードリヒ王弟の孫テック公の娘。派手好きな両親の借金で諸外国を点々とする少女時代を送ったが各国の文化に接する経験ともなった。ヴィクトリア女王に気に入られ、嫁に♪

ジョージ五世とともに

第一次世界大戦時、ヨーロッパでは多くの王家が没落した。ジョージ5世は、家名を敵国ドイツ名のゴータ家からウィンザー家に改名、ラジオ演説で国民を励まして国民の支持を得た。しかし、長男エドワードはシンプソン夫人との恋に走り退位してしまう（笑

孫のエリザベス、マーガレットとともに／1939年

メアリー王妃のドールハウス

メアリー王妃のドールハウスは、1920年代に制作された。本棚の本もミニチュア版に実際に製本され、気鋭の画家たちがミニチュアの絵画を提供し、ワインセラーの瓶にまで本物のワインが詰められた。再現度が精巧なため、当時の王室の日常を知る貴重な資料とされている♪

一方で、脚本家バーナード・ショーは掌編を寄せてほしいという依頼を拒んでいるほか、作曲家エドワード・エルガーも以下の書簡で依頼を拒否している（笑

「私たちみんなが王も王妃も芸術的なものは何一つ理解できないことを知っている。ウィンザーの図書館に、私の第2交響曲の楽譜を収めた時だって、それに一言も触れやしなかった。それなのに今は私の絶頂期だと言って王妃のドールハウスに協力するよう求められた！　私はもう充分なほど『棒の上の猿』として奉仕をしてきたはずだ。私はこの棒を降りる決意をした。手紙にこれ以上私に無理強いしないよう望むと書いておいた。馬鹿げた出来事に芸術家を巻き込むのは、芸術家に対する侮辱だと思っている」。。。。。

⭐️「ビスケットマンライフ」面白楽しく続けてきましたが、容量リミットで2016年5月26日にて終了となりまする〜〜見てくれた方々ありがとうございました〜♪

⭐️ "Biscuit man life" it was being continued happily, it'll be an end in May 26, 2016 by a capacity limit, thank you very much for your person who read♪

Mary of Teck (26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress consort of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V.

Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in England. Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after her birth month. At the age of 24 she was betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement he died unexpectedly of pneumonia. The following year she became engaged to Albert Victor's next surviving brother, George, who subsequently became King. Before her husband's accession she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales.

As queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the First World War, his ill health and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war and the rise of socialism and nationalism. After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward, ascended the throne, but to her dismay he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned.

Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V. The idea for building it originally came from the Queen's cousin, Princess Marie Louise, who discussed her idea with one of the top architects of the time, Sir Edwin Lutyens, at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1921. Sir Edwin agreed to construct the dolls' house and began preparations. Princess Marie Louise had many connections in the arts and arranged for the top artists and craftsmen of the time to contribute their special abilities to the house. As a result, the dolls' house has an amazing collection of miniature items that actually work: "There are shotguns that 'break and load' (and may even fire), monogrammed linens, ... 'electricity and lifts, a garage of cars with engines that run.'"  It even has running water through its tiny pipes. It was created as a gift to Queen Mary from the people, and to serve as an historical document on how a royal family might have lived during that period in England. near-