Household of King George V and Queen Mary Household of King George V and Queen Mary The Royal Households of the United Kingdom consists of royal officials and the supporting staff of the British Royal Family, as well as the Royal Household which supports the Sovereign. Each member of the Royal Family who undertakes public duties has his own separate Household. King George V (1865–1936) was created Duke of York in 1892, and received a separate household together with his brother. Courtiers appointed to assist the Prince George of Wales until that year had been part of his parents´ household. After his marriage to Princess Mary of Teck
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