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Queen Mary

The royal portraits in the Senate’s collection honour the Upper Chamber’s ties to the Crown and Canada’s heritage as a constitutional monarchy.

Princess Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York, in 1893; the two became Queen Mary and King George V in 1910.

As queen consort, Mary observed many important events that shaped Canada, including the First World War and the Great Depression. She was grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II — the United Kingdom and Canada’s longest reigning monarch — and great-grandmother of King Charles III.

The Senate’s portrait of Queen Mary is a copy of the work of Sir William Llewellyn, an English-born Welsh painter and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts. It’s one of four reproductions of royal portraits that George V gifted to the Government of Canada in 1928 to celebrate the country’s Diamond Jubilee. The four works replaced royal portraits lost in the 1916 fire that destroyed the original Centre Block.

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