Teck Gallery

WW1 - Home Front - The Queens Work for Women Fund

After the outbreak of WW1, many women in the textile and clothing industry had lost their jobs as export markets closed, posing a direct threat to their job prospects. The War Emergency Workers National Committee, which included leading figures from the labour movement, opposed it. Representatives of working women were called to the palace and The Queen's Work for Women Fund was created. Contracts to supply clothing and other items for the Army Supply Department were issued and the Queen placed a personal order for 75, 000 woollen body belts as part of her Christmas gift to the troops. Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Duke and Duchess of York with their six children

Duke and Duchess of York with their six children, taken at Abergeldie, (left to right, top to bottom) Duke of York (later George V), (1865 1936), Duchess of York, Mary of Teck (later Queen Mary consort), Prince Edward of Wales (later King Edward VIII), and then Duke of Windsor, (1894 1972), Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), (1895 1952), Prince George, Duke of Kent, (1902 1942), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, (1900 1974), Prince John, who died at the age of fourteen of a severe epilepsy seizure, (1905 1919), as a baby and Princess Mary, later Viscountess Lascelles, (1897 1965).
1906

© Mary Evans Picture Library

The arrival at the main entrance of the Imperial Institute of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duchess of Teck, and Princess May (engraving)

607477 The arrival at the main entrance of the Imperial Institute of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duchess of Teck, and Princess May (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India, London: The arrival at the main entrance of the Imperial Institute of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duchess of Teck, and Princess May; from The Graphic, 13 May 1893); Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection

© Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection / Bridgeman Images