00:01I am fat, but I am Princess of Tech.
00:06Britain once treated this princess as a royal disappointment.
00:11By the age of 30, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was still unmarried.
00:16She was royal, wealthy, and a cousin of Queen Victoria.
00:21Yet within British high society, people cruelly mocked her appearance,
00:25claiming she was too fat to find a husband.
00:28And there was another problem.
00:30Her dowry was surprisingly small for a princess.
00:34Then, unexpectedly, fate brought an answer from Vienna.
00:38The future King Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, met a remarkably handsome German prince.
00:45There was just one catch.
00:47He had almost no money.
00:49But Edward and Alexandra believed he could be the perfect match for Mary Adelaide.
00:53So, in 1866, they quietly arranged for the two to meet in London.
00:59And everything changed.
01:01Mary Adelaide was immediately charmed by him.
01:04He, in turn, was drawn to her warmth, humor, and kindness.
01:09Only a month later, they were married.
01:12Despite the financial struggles that followed,
01:14the couple remained deeply devoted to each other throughout their lives.
01:18Mary Adelaide's extravagant spending eventually pushed the family into serious debt.
01:24At one point, they even left Britain to escape their creditors.
01:28But their unconventional marriage would leave behind an extraordinary royal legacy.
01:33Their daughter became Queen Mary, the wife of King George V.
01:38She became the grandmother of King George VI,
01:41and the great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
01:44The Princess British Society had once dismissed as an undesirable match
01:49became one of the ancestors of the modern British royal family.
