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Originally Posted by jblum315

No, the Queen Mother was elizabeth, same as the Queen

Thank you for that. I always thought she was very sweet and gentle and that her name was Mary.
It was her mother in law who was named Mary.
Again, thank you.


Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Portrait by Richard Stone, 1986Queen consort of the United Kingdom
and the British DominionsTenure11 December 1936 –
6 February 1952Coronation12 May 1937Empress consort of IndiaTenure11 December 1936 –
14 August 1947

SpouseGeorge VI

Issue
Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Full name Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon[a]HouseHouse of Windsor (by marriage)

FatherClaude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

MotherCecilia Cavendish-BentinckBorn(1900-08-04)4 August 1900
London or Hitchin

Died30 March 2002(2002-03-30) (aged 101)
Royal Lodge, Windsor, BerkshireBurial9 April 2002
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II. 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,[2] to avoid confusion with her daughter, another Queen Elizabeth. 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, Elizabeth and Margaret, embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.[3] She undertook a variety of public engagements, and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression.[4]

In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson. As queen, she accompanied her husband on diplomatic tours to France and North America before the start of World War II. During the war, her seemingly indomitable spirit provided moral support to the British public. In recognition of her role as an asset to British interests, Adolf Hitler described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe".[5] After the war, her husband's health deteriorated and she was widowed at the age of 51.

On the death of her mother-in-law Queen Mary in 1953, with her brother-in-law living abroad and her elder daughter, the Queen, aged 27, Elizabeth became the senior member of the British Royal Family and assumed a position as family matriarch. In her later years, she was a consistently popular member of the family, even when other members were suffering from low levels of public approval.[6] She continued an active public life until just a few months before her death at the age of 101, seven weeks after the death of her younger daughter, Princess Margaret.