Burg Teck 1999 the surroundings of the Teck became protected area (Naturschutzgebiet). The most famous of the Teck family is considered to be Duke Francis's daughter, Mary of Teck, who was queen consort to King George V of the United Kingdom and Empress of India. Burg Teck Teck was a ducal castle in the kingdom of Württemberg, immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck (now in the district of Esslingen). "Burg Teck" takes its name from the ridge, the Teckberg, 2,544 feet high, which it crowned. It was destroyed in the German
Duke of Teck his male-line descendants. In 1866 Francis married Princess Mary of Cambridge, a member of the British Royal Family and granddaughter of King George III. As the couple had to live on Mary's Parliamentary annuity, the prince having inherited little income, they lived mostly in England, first at Kensington Palace where their children were born, later at Royal Lodge in Surrey, both residences lent them by Queen Victoria. In 1871, King Charles I of Württemberg granted Francis the new (and, within the German nobility, higher) title "Duke ("Herzog") of Teck", heritable by male-line primogeniture. In 1887, Queen Victoria granted the Duke