November 27, 1833

Princess Mary Adelaide was fat and loud and extravagant. Her cousin was Queen Victoria, who turned down many of Princess Mary's requests for money. The Queen did give her cousin royal accommodations at Kensington Palace.  Princess Mary Adelaide, of Teck (November 27, 1833 to October 27, 1897), kept a diary and here is an excerpt dated October 21, 1871. Her family is visiting the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She writes

.... At two I drove ....through Thiergarten and Burgerhorst; the variegated tints of the foliage were beautiful, but the road was shaky and sandy. On our return I had a run with Gussy all round the Koppel, and we brought back with us a little cat that had strayed away.

After her finances stabilized, Mary Adelaide became famous for her philanthropy. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says she inculcated this virtue into her daughter Mary. Mary was the opposite of her mother, but when she became Queen of England, as the wife of George V, Mary followed her mother's example and was also famous for her charitable works.