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Tony Threadgold, The Queen's new neighbour. Beverley Threadgold, his wife. Violet Toby, one of Diana's neighbours. Wilfred 'Wilf' Toby, her fifth husband. Marilyn Monk, Beverley's sister and Diana's other neighbour. Leslie Kerry Violet Elizabeth Monk, the child of Marilyn and her imprisoned husband, Les. Philomena Toussaint, the Queen Mother's ...
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]
Margaret Rhodes LVO (née Elphinstone; 9 June 1925 – 25 November 2016) was a British aristocrat and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. From 1991 to 2002, she served as Woman of the Bedchamber to her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Dzongkha: རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་མོ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: Rdo-rje Dbang-mo Dbang-phyug; born 10 June 1955) is the Queen Mother (Gyalyum Kude) of Bhutan, and first wife of former king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who is married to four sisters all of whom were entitled to be called queen.
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 ...
At the age of 42 and already the mother of six, she agreed at the urging of her husband to have an abortion and undergo sterilisation. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] She is said to have been happy with the decision, but during her convalescence, she discovered her husband's affair with Wendy Craig , with whom he had a son. [ 5 ]
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
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 ...