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Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother)

British royalty, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936-52), Queen Consort of King George VI (1936-52), Empress of India (1936-47), Duchess of York (1923-36).


Biographical fast facts

Full or original name at birth: Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon

Date, time and place of birth: August 4, 1900, at 11:31 a.m., St. Paul's, Walden Bury, Hertfordshire, England *

Date, time, place and cause of death: March 30, 2002, at 3:15 p.m., Royal Lodge, Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (Bronchial infection)

Marriage
Husband: King George VI (m. April 26, 1923 - February 6, 1952) (his death)
Wedding took place at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.

Children
Daughters: Queen Elizabeth II (b. April 21, 1926, at 2:40 a.m., at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, England)
Princess Margaret (b. August 21, 1930, at 9:22 p.m., Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland - d. February 9, 2002, at 6:30 a.m., at King Edward VII Hospital, London, England, of a stroke/heart ailment)

Parents
Father: Claude George Bowes-Lyon (14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne)
Mother: Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (Countess of Strathmore)

Burial site: The Vault of King George VI, her husband, St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, England.


Error correction or clarification

* Most knowledgeable sources place her birth at St. Paul's, Walden Bury, Hertfordshire, England. Her birth was indeed registered there in Hertfordshire, but "officially" she was born in London, England.




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