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Edward is absent for most of the novel, being in New Zealand producing a play. He appears at the end of the book when he is forced into marrying the Japanese Princess Sayako. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon; Harris, the Queen's corgi, who is hijacked along with Prince Edward at the marriage of Edward and Sayako.
Shortly after George VI's death, Elizabeth began to be styled as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. [91] Popularly, she became the "Queen Mother" or the "Queen Mum". [92]
[4] Crawford's unauthorised work was published in Woman's Own in the UK and in the Ladies' Home Journal in the United States, becoming a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. A book, The Little Princesses, also sold exceptionally well. Later she wrote stories about Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Princess
The Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes described how the monarch blossomed in later years. “I think in a funny way, perhaps, you know the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had quite a huge ...
A historical fantasy of Elizabeth's life, featuring elven guardians, is recounted in This Scepter'd Isle (2004), Ill Met by Moonlight (2005), and By Slanderous Tongues (2007) by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis. Queen Elizabeth I: A Children's Picture Book by Richard Brassey (2005) Queen Elizabeth I and Her Conquests by Margret Simpson (2006)
The royal family has boasted some very long-lived members—Prince Philip passed away barely two months before his centenary, Queen Elizabeth lived to be 96, and her mother, the late Queen Mother ...
This would normally indicate a Queen Dowager or Queen Mother, but in this context suggests a queen consort who was an older woman, and married to a king of comparable age. If the reference is limited to Queens named Mary, another candidate would be Mary of Guelders (1434–1463), queen to James II, King of Scots .
She is the mother of the current monarch. She is a queen dowager, i.e. the widow of a king. Queen mother does not mean mother of the Queen; it applies whether the current monarch is queen or king. As a queen dowager, a queen mother assumes the style of "Her Majesty Queen [first name]" upon her husband’s death.