When Elizabeth Angela Marguerite was born on 4 August 1900 to the distinguished and ancient Scotish Bowes-Lyon family Queen Victoria was still on the throne having celebrated over 60 years on the throne. When she died on the 30 March 2002, her daughter was making prepararations for her Golden Jubilee as the fifth generation of the dynasty to rule over her. She inspired a lot of respect and her are a taster of the articles that h2g2 researchers have posted about this remarkable lady.

H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Her Early Life

An article by Demon Drawer and Archangel Galaxy Babe

The Bowes Lyon family were direct descendants of Robert II King of the Scots. Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, who in 1904 became the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, already had 7 surviving children¹ aged seventeen to seven when his wife Cecila Nina announced that she was pregnant once again at the age of 38. However on 4 August 1900 the child a healthy baby girl was born. The exact location is not known, or maybe was never disclosed by the future Empress of India...

Duchess of York

An article by Demon Drawer

King George V announced the engagement of Prince Albert, Duke of York to the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in January 1923. In a break with tradition it was also announced that the wedding would be a grand public affair at Westminster Abbey instead of some Royal Chapel. The last time a King's son had been married there was Edmund, Earl of Lancaster in 1269. The reason for so public a wedding can only have been to lift the spirits of the nation following the ravages of the Great War...

The Abdication of King Edward VIII and the effect on the Royal Family

An article by Archangel Galaxy Babe

In January, 1936, King George V died. The throne passed to his first-born son, David, who assumed the title of King Edward VIII. Still single at this time, he found himself under pressure to marry a 'suitable' woman who would become Queen, and hopefully, provide an heir. King Edward was having an affair with Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee who was married to her second husband. How much more unsuitable a prospect for Queen of England is hard to imagine, as she was also a catholic, and the British Royal Family are head of the Church of England....

The Koh-i-noor Diamond

An Article by Belshazzar

In April 2002, a few days after the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - the last Empress of India - her crown, in which is set this priceless gem, was taken from behind its ultra-high-security armoured glass in the Tower of London. It was carried in open view through the streets of London, surmounting her coffin as it processed from St James's Palace to Westminster Hall, and remained there as members of the public filed past to pay their last respects during her Lying-In-State...

Queen Elizabeth

An article by Demon Drawer

Horse Racing

An article by Demon Drawer

In 1949 when Monaveen won at Fontwell, she bacame the first Queen of England to win a horse race in Britain since Queen Anne in 1714. In a career spanning over 50 years she had 449 winners her last being just 222 days before she died when One Love won...

The Queen Mother

The Queen Mother's London

An article by Catherine C. over at sense of Place

For most of her 101 years, the Queen Mother was proud to call London her home. Following her marriage to Prince Albert, Duke of York, in 1923 she moved to Bruton Street in the heart of Piccadilly. It was to be her first London residence and the birthplace of the future Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret...

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¹ An eldest daugther Violet had died aged only eleven