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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (née The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) ( 4 August 1900 - 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom. She is the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, the current British monarch. After her husband's death she was known as the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, or, more popularly, the Queen Mum. Queen Elizabeth was the last holder of the titles, Empress of India and Queen of Ireland. Before her husband's accession to the throne, she held the title of Duchess of York. She also held the courtesy title of Lady as the daughter of an Earl.Queen Elizabeth was famous for her role in providing morale support to the British public during World War II. In her later years, she was a consistently popular member of the British Royal Family.
1 Early Life
Born in her parents' LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England home, her birth was registered at St. Paul's, Waldenbury , their HertfordshireHertfordshire (pronounced 'Hartfordshire' and abbreviated as 'Herts') is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is one of the Home Counties. Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the c house due to her parents' preference. She was the fourth daughter and the ninth of ten children of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (later 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne), and his wife, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. She spent much of her childhood at St. Paul's and at Glamis CastleGlamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis—pronounced Glaamz in the county of Angus, Scotland. It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, who have handed it over to the National Trust for Scotland. As a result, it is open to the pu, the Earl's ancestrial home in ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p.
The First World WarWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of broke out when she was 14. Her elder brother, Fergus, an officerIn the military, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. Commissioned officers are authorized to use deadly force to carry out the lawful orde in the Black Watch Regiment, was killed in action at Loos, France in 1915. Another brother, Michael, was reported missing in action in May 1917. However, he had actually been captured after being wounded and remained in a Prisoner of War camp for the rest of the War. Glamis was turned into a convalescence home for wounded soldiers, which Elizabeth helped to run. One of the soldiers she treated wrote on a card that she was to be "Hung, drawn and quartered: hung in diamonds, drawn by the best carriages, and quartered in the finest palaces in the land".
