Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002)

Hon. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was born on the 4th August 1900 to the Master of Glamis, Claude George Bowes-Lyon (1855-1944) and Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862-1938). She became 'Lady Elizabeth' in 1904, when her father became the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. In 1923, she married the then Duke of York and second in line to the throne, Prince Albert (1895-1952) on the 26th April at Westminster Abbey. Together, they had two children: Elizabeth (1926-) and Margaret (1930-2002). Her husband became the King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India when his brother abdicated the throne, and so Elizabeth became Queen Consort. Upon the death of her husband in 1952, she became the Queen Mother and lived to the age of 101, when she died on the 30th March 2002 at the Royal Lodge in Windsor