Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

 

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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was queen consort of the United Kingdom from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter. She was the last Empress of India. Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904. She came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. She undertook a variety of public engagements and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Born 1900-08-04 (125 years ago) in Hitchin.

Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Royal Victorian Chain
Relationships
Name From To Relationship type
George VI(Gifta: 1923-04-26–1952-02-06) 1923-04-26 1952-02-06 Gifta
Children

Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Parents

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Siblings

Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone, John Bowes-Lyon, David Bowes-Lyon, Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, Fergus Bowes-Lyon, Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon, Violet Bowes-Lyon, Alexander Francis Bowes-Lyon

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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was queen consort of the United Kingdom from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter. She was the last Empress of India.

Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904. She came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. She undertook a variety of public engagements and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression.

In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became King when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson.

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