Template:Did you know nominations/King George and Queen Mary

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 12:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

King George and Queen Mary

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• ... that the BBC programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck (pictured) occurred only because Prince Albert Victor, George's brother and Mary's original fiancé, died from influenza?

• Reviewed: Sebastiano Montelupi

Created/expanded by So God created Manchester (talk). Self nom at 19:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• - length and date and quality, etc. are fine with the article and the hook is sourced. Slight problem is the hook is a little too long at 204 characters w/o spaces, 240 with. If it is trimmed to:

• ALT: ... that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck (pictured) occurred because Prince Albert Victor, Mary's original fiancé, died from influenza?

• Could even trim the "from influenza" part to get even shorter. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC) - PS image is good to go as PD. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

• That works. Thank you for the suggestion.--SGCM (talk)05:08, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

• - ALT is good to go. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:45, 1 November 2012 (UTC)