Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, but their lives were very different from most British royals. Both born with severe developmental disabilities, the sisters never ...

What was the Queen Mother's name? Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the Queen Mother's given name. She became Queen Elizabeth after her husband's brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated the ...

This week it has been 102 years since the then-Prince Albert married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. British princes at the time traditionally married princesses from continental ...

Princess Elizabeth of York photographed with her mother in 1928. Long before she was Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth has always been a notorious dog-lover. She poses with two ...

It is a matter for the Bowes-Lyon family.” Lady Elizabeth Anson, a niece of the two sisters, also issued a statement to the BBC on behalf of the Bowes-Lyon family saying that “there was no att ...

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Instead, she was named after her own mother, King George VI’s queen consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. And it’s a name she’s handed down to others, too. While the world mourns the beloved royal ...

According to the royal family’s website, the Queen Mother was born the Honourable Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 4 August, 1900, and spent her early childhood years at St. Paul’s ...