 She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned.Among much else, an ocean liner, a battlecruiser, and a university were named in her honour.Princess Victoria Mary ("May") of Teck was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London, in the same room where Queen Victoria, her first cousin once removed, had been born 48 years earlier.