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6 unusual facts about Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother


Adela Verne

She composed a variety of works, including a Military March dedicated to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother; her sister Mathilde's pupil).

Ainsworths

The company has served a number of physicians of the British royal family and was granted Royal warrants by the Queen Mother, the Queen and Prince Charles.

John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone

He was a son of Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, a nephew of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Mr. What

An eight year-old gelding owned by David Coughlan, trained by Tom Taaffe Mr What was ridden by the The Queen Mother's jockey Arthur Freeman who put up six lbs overweight.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth Way Monument

It was dedicated June 7, 1939 during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the namesake of the highway, in what was the first visit to a British dominion by the reigning sovereign.


Augustine Warner, Jr.

His daughter Mildred was the grandmother of Washington, while his daughter Mary is an ancestor of the Queen's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Brigid Marlin

Her portrait of Ballard was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1989, and she has also painted portraits of the Dalai Lama and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Colindale tube station

Nine rescue parties worked through the night to rescue the survivors, and the station was visited on 26 September by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Commando Memorial

Unveiled in 1952 by the Queen Mother, it has become one of Scotland's best-known monuments, both as a war memorial and as a tourist attraction offering views of Ben Nevis and Aonach Mòr.

Cwm Rhondda

The hymn has been sung on various British state occasions such as the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

Evelyn Laye

It was reported after Laye's death that the Queen Mother had petitioned the then Prime Minister John Major for Laye to be awarded the DBE (damehood).

Hugo Vickers

Educated at Eton College and Strasbourg University, Vickers has written many royal biographies, including ones of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Andrew of Greece—which was approved by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh—and Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.

James D Robertson

His work is held many public and private collections including HRH Prince Phillip and The Queen Mother.

Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck

Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Caroline Louisa Burnaby) (c. 1831 – 6 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, great-great-grandmother of Charles, Prince of Wales, and great-great-great-grandmother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, as well as being an ancestress of other members of the British Royal Family, descended from the Queen Mother.

Music Inspired by the Group of Seven

However, snippets of recorded dialogue from the Group of Seven artists, and other contemporaneous figures such as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker, are mixed in.

Niall Ó Donnghaile

After taking office, he removed portraits of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Prince Charles from the Mayor's parlour, replacing them with a portrait of the United Irishmen and a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Samantha Bumgarner

Bumgarner was also among the artists Lunsford assembled to play before George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England in June 1939 at the invitation of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at a White House concert of American music arranged by Charles Seeger and Adrian Dornbush (of the WPA) for the benefit of the first visit by a reigning British monarch and his consort on American soil.

Sara Leighton

She recalls her encounters with many of her clients and friends including Lord Olivier, The Prince of Wales, Muhammad Ali, Sheikh Yamani, Gloria Swanson, Pietro Annigoni, Sir Roger Moore, Jean Rook, David Niven, Shirley Bassey, Joan Collins, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Princess Royal and the Beaverbrook family.

Shi Xinning

Influenced by both social realism and European styles, he specialises in historical paintings that insert Mao Zedong into iconic social and political photos of the 20th century - such as the Yalta Conference, the HUAC hearings, and a state procession of the British Queen Mother.

St Botolph's Aldgate

St Botolph's was rehallowed on November 8, 1966 by the Bishop of London, in the presence of the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Sir Robert Bellinger, the Lord Mayor of London, who attended in state.

Vigil of the Princes

The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Earl of Wessex and Viscount Linley took guard at 16:40 UTC on 8 April 2002 at the lying-in-state of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (widow of King George VI; daughter-in-law of King George V).

Walmer

Famous Lords Warden have included Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Sir Winston Churchill, William Pitt the Younger (whose niece Lady Hester Stanhope first created the gardens), and the Duke of Wellington (of the Battle of Waterloo fame).


see also

2002 Demise Honours

The Right Honourable Robert Alexander Lindsay, The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, K.T., formerly Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Claude Bowes-Lyon

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855 - 1944), father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother