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Events on Tuesday 24 March 1953 1
1867 – 1953Queen Mary (1867-1953)Died 24 March 1953, aged 85Mary of Teck was Queen consort of the United Kingdom as wife of King George V and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. She was widely respected for her steadying presence through two world wars and the abdication crisis of 1936. She died at Marlborough House just months before her granddaughter's coronation.