Instead of juicy drama about Princess Diana’s troubled marriage, the public received the disturbing news that Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, had been wrongly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

She rode with Queen Mary (left) and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the Duchess of York (right). She had a strong fashion sense even at a young age. Then-Princess Elizabeth adjusted her stockings upon ...

born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and later known as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Princess Margaret continued the Elizabeth tradition by ...

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 ...