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==Legacy== Actresses who have portrayed Queen Mary include [[Dame Flora Robson]] (in ''A King's Story'', 1965), [[Dame Wendy Hiller]] (on the London stage in ''[[Crown Matrimonial (play)|Crown Matrimonial]]'', 1972),<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/may/16/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Dame Wendy Hiller|work=The Guardian|date=16 May 2003|access-date=1 May 2010}}</ref> [[Greer Garson]] (in the television production of ''Crown Matrimonial'', 1974), [[Judy Loe]] (in ''[[Edward the Seventh]]'', 1975), [[Dame Peggy Ashcroft]] (in ''[[Edward & Mrs. Simpson]]'', 1978), [[Phyllis Calvert]] (in ''[[The Woman He Loved]]'', 1988), Gaye Brown (in ''[[All the King's Men (1999 film)|All the King's Men]]'', 1999), [[Miranda Richardson]] (in ''[[The Lost Prince]]'', 2003), [[Margaret Tyzack]] (in ''[[Wallis & Edward]]'', 2005), [[Claire Bloom]] (in ''[[The King's Speech]]'', 2010), [[Judy Parfitt]] (in ''[[W.E.]]'', 2011), Valerie Dane (in the television version of ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', 2013), [[Dame Eileen Atkins]] (in ''[[Bertie and Elizabeth]]'', 2002 and ''[[The Crown (season 1)|The Crown]]'', 2016), [[Geraldine James]] (in the film version of ''[[Downton Abbey (film)|Downton Abbey]]'', 2019), and Candida Benson (in [[The Crown (season 5)|''The Crown'']], 2022). Many places and buildings have been named in Mary's honour, including [[Queen Mary University of London]],<ref>{{citation|first=G. P.|last=Moss|author2=Saville, M. V.|title=From Palace to College β An illustrated account of Queen Mary College |publisher=University of London|year=1985|pages=57β62|isbn=0-902238-06-X}}</ref> [[Queen Mary Reservoir]] in Surrey,<ref>{{citation|title=History of the Queen Mary Reservoir β Sunbury Matters |url=http://www.villagematters.co.uk/sunbury-matters/sunbury-matters-articles/2014/02/history-of-the-queen-mary-reservoir|website=Village Matters|date=February 2014 |access-date=25 April 2014}}</ref> and [[Queen Mary College, Lahore|Queen Mary College]] in [[Lahore]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.qmc.edu.pk/introduction.html|title=Introduction|publisher=Queen Mary College, Lahore|access-date=29 October 2014|archive-date=5 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405014516/https://www.qmc.edu.pk/introduction.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sir [[Henry "Chips" Channon]] wrote that Queen Mary was "above politics ... magnificent, humorous, worldly, in fact nearly sublime, though cold and hard. But what a grand Queen."<ref>{{citation|last=Channon|first=Sir Henry|author-link=Henry Channon|others=Edited by [[Robert Rhodes James]]|title=Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=London|year=1967|page=473}}</ref>
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