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Signature. Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck ...
Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. Signature. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon[ b ] (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was ...
1952–2002 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, widow of George VI, mother of Elizabeth II; her fifty years is the longest that anyone has held the status of queen mother. British Queen Grandmothers. House of Windsor. 1952–1953 Mary of Teck, paternal grandmother of Elizabeth II; she is the only British queen dowager to achieve the status of a queen ...
Signature. Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as " Bloody Mary " by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt ...
Mother. Frances Dora Smith. Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG , KT , GCVO , TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
Signature. Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart[ 3 ] or Mary I of Scotland, [ 4 ] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [ a ] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her ...
In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter, Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred in the chapel alongside him. [119] In 2022, the remains of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, were also interred in the chapel. [120]