‘Fat Mary’ - The last Princess of Cambridge
9th May 2015
by Alexander Bassano, half-plate glass negative, circa 1888
It has been quite some time since the last Princess of Cambridge – 132 years to be exact. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was born in 1833. She had earned the nickname of Fat Mary and is recorded as a “jolly old maid” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Luckily for her, that was not her only nickname.