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When her husband asked her to drop one of her two official names, Victoria Mary, she chose to be called Mary, preferring not to be known by the same style as her husband's grandmother, Queen Victoria. [29] She was the first British queen consort born in Britain since Catherine Parr assumed the title in July 1543. [1]
In 1923, she married the future King George VI, and had issue, including Queen Elizabeth II. She became queen consort and empress consort of India in 1936, and in later life, after the death of her husband, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon: 2 May 1902: 13 September 1961: 59 years
Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; 23 November 1832 – 6 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Early life
"The Queen Mother" usually, in English, refers to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (queen consort, 1936–1952; queen mother, 1952–2002), who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and one of the few people to use the term as an official style.
Such was the case for the George VI’s wife, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and for George V’s wife Queen Mary – the Queen’s grandmother. The exception was Queen Mary II who, with her ...
The following is a list of women who can be classified as Queen Mother at some point in their lives. English Queen Mothers (title not used in earlier periods) House of Wessex. 978–1000 Ælfthryth, (the first king's wife known to have been crowned and anointed as Queen of the Kingdom of England), widow of Edgar, mother of Æthelred the Unready.
Queen Elizabeth was head of state for more than 70 years, but behind the scenes she was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Prince William reflected on his grandmother Queen Elizabeth's legacy in a statement after news of Her Majesty's death. The Prince of Wales Remembers His Grandmother Queen Elizabeth: Grief Is "the ...