Authors and Contributors this page: Christopher Buyers, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 07.05.2006
 

H.M.
Queen Elizabeth
 The Queen Mother

1900-2002
    
 

    Vita
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Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon
birth: 1900.08.04 at St Paul's, Walden Bury, Herts.
father:   Col. The Rt Hon Claude George (Bowes-Lyon), 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, KStJ, TD [Hon. Colonel, 5th Bn The Black Watch]
mother:   The Rt Hon Cecilia Nina, Countess of Strathmore, GCVO, DStJ, née Cavendish-Bentink
marriage: 1923.04.23 King George VI
at Westminster Abbey, London
children: 1926 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (Queen Elizabeth II)
  1930 Princess Margaret Rose (Countess of Snowdon)
death: 2002.03.30 at Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
  1900.08.04 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
  1923.04.23 Duchess of York
  1936.12.10 H.M. Queen Elizabeth
  1952.02.06 H.M. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
  1923.04.22 King George V Royal Family Order, 2nd class
  1926.06.12 GCStJ
  1927.06.27 GBE (civ)
  1931.04.04 CI
  1936.12.10 RRC
  1936.12.11 LG
  1937.02.01 GCVO (Grand Master and Principal Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order 1937-2002)
  1937.05.09 King George VI Royal Family Order, 1st class
  1937.05.11 LT
  1937.05.11 Royal Victorian Chain
  1952.12.25 Queen Elizabeth II Royal Family Order, 1st class
  19uu CD
  1990.02.06 ONZ
  2000.08.04 CC
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
  1923.10.21 Grand Cross, the Order of St Sava (Yugoslavia)
  1928.03.13 The Order of the Supreme Sun, 1st class (Afghanistan)
  1937.06.29 Grand Cordon, the Order of the Precious Crown (Japan)
  1938.07.20 Grand Cordon, the Order of the Legion of Honour (French Republic)
  1938.11.15 Grand Cross, the Order of the Crown of Rumania
  1946.09.24 The Most Glorious Order of the Ojaswi Rajanya (Nepal)
  1950.11.15 Knight Grand Cross, the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands)
    The Order of St Olga and St Sophia, 1st class (Greece)
  1960.02.25 Grand Cross, the Order of the Sun of Peru (Peru)
  1961.05.17 Grand Cordon, the Order of Independence (Tunisia)
  1945 Red Cross Medal (France)
  1945 Norwegian War Cross
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
  1927.08.12 Colonel-in-Chief, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [to 1968]
1930.04.05 Honorary Colonel, The Hertfordshire Regiment [to 1961]
1930.10.30 Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) [to 1959]
1935.05.06 Royal Honorary Colonel, The London Scottish
1937.05.13 Colonel-in-Chief, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
1938.02.18 Colonel-in-Chief, The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
1939.08.01 Commandant-in-Chief, Women's Royal Naval Service
19uu Air Chief Commandant, Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force
  1947.01.31 Colonel-in-Chief, 7th Queen's Own Hussars [to 1958]
1947? Colonel-in-Chief, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
1947.05.13 Colonel-in-Chief, The Manchester Regiment
1947.12.01 Colonel-in-Chief, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
1947.12.12 Colonel-in-Chief, The Witerwatersrand Rifles [terminated 1961]
1947.12.19 Colonel-in-Chief, The Capetown Highlanders [terminated 1961]
1949 Commandant-in-Chief, Women's Royal Army Corps
  1949.12.01 Commandant-in-Chief, Womens' Royal Air Force [to 1994]
1952.07.04 Royal Honorary Colonel, The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
1953.06.02 Colonel-in-Chief, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
  1953.06.02 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Army Medical Corps
1953.06.02 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps [to 1964]
1953.06.02 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
1955 Honorary Commissioner, British South Africa Police [terminated 1965]
1956.10.27 Colonel-in-Chief, The Transvaal Scottish [terminated 1961]
  1957.03.12 Honorary Colonel, The Inns of Court Regiment [to 1961]
1958.06.02 Colonel-in-Chief, 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
[on formation]
1958.08.05 [Royal] Honorary Colonel, University of London OTC [to 1989]
1958.09.01 Colonel-in-Chief, The King's Regiment [on formation]
1958.11.03 Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Own Hussars [on formation]
1959.01.01 Colonel-in-Chief, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards [on formation]
1960.06.29 Commandant-in-Chief, RAF Central Flying School
1960.09.11 Colonel-in-Chief, 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
[on formation]
  1961.04.01 Royal Honorary Colonel, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [on formation]
1961.05.01 Royal Honorary Colonel, Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
[on formation]
1964.09.01 Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Anglian Regiment [on formation]
1967.07.18 Royal Honorary Colonel, The Royal Yeomanry [on formation]
1968.07.10 Colonel-in-Chief, The Light Infantry [on formation]
1977.06.11 Colonel-in-Chief, Canadian Forces Medical Services
1977.06.11 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps
1993.09.02 Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) [on formation]
1996.08.03 Royal Honorary Colonel, King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry) [on formation, to 1999]
  1994.04.01 Commandant-in-Chief Women, Royal Air Force [on formation]
   Military Service
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   Other Military Connections
19uu Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
1961-2002 When South Africa became a republic, the Queen Mother's colonelships there ceased, but she maintained contact with "her regiments"; they sent delegations to her 100th birthday celebration and to her funeral.
2000.10.19 On the occasion of her hundred birthday, The Queen granted The Queen Mother's name to The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
19uu Commandant in Chief, Nursing Corps and Divisions, St. John Ambulance Brigade
   
   
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