Coronation of the British monarch 1 January 1903 to celebrate the accession of Edward VII, who was represented by his brother the Duke of Connaught. In 1911, George V also held a durbar which he and his wife Queen Mary attended in person. Since it was deemed inappropriate for a Christian anointing and coronation to take place in a largely non-Christian nation, George V was not crowned in India; instead, he wore an imperial crown as he entered the Durbar. Tradition prohibited the removal of the Crown Jewels from the United Kingdom; therefore, a separate crown, known as the Imperial Crown of India, was created
Duke of Teck the dynasty which had become kings of Württemberg in 1805, re-established a non-dynastic line of Dukes of Teck by his 1835 morganatic marriage with the Hungarian countess Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812-1841). Their son, excluded from succession to the throne of Württemberg, was born Count Francis von Hohenstein (1837-1900), sharing the title his mother was granted by Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria on 16 May 1835, two weeks after the couple married in Vienna. In 1863, King William I of Württemberg raised Francis in rank to "Prince ("Fürst") of Teck" with the style Serene Highness ("Durchlaucht"), heritable by all