Wedding of Princess Mary of Cambridge & Francis of Teck

Throwing the slipper for good luck. The marriage of Princess Mary of Cambridge and Prince Francis of Teck. After the ceremony, the newlyweds are pelted with shoes and slippers for luck as they leave. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was the youngest child of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and a cousin of Queen Victoria. She married Prince Francis of Teck at St. Anne's Church in Kew (her childhood home) on 12 June 1866. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was Princess May of Teck, the future Queen Mary, consort of King George V

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