 Queen Victoria came to visit the baby, writing that she was "a very fine one, with pretty little features and a quantity of hair".May would become the first British queen consort born in Britain since Catherine Parr.Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (created Countess von Hohenstein in the Austrian Empire).