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{{Infobox royalty | consort = yes | name = Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | image = Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother portrait.jpg | alt = Oil portrait of Queen Elizabeth at half length | caption = Portrait by Richard Stone, 1986 | succession = Queen consort of the United Kingdom
and the British Dominions | reign = 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952 | cor-type = Coronation | coronation = 12 May 1937 | succession1 = Empress consort of India | reign1 = 11 December 1936 – 15 August 1947 | birth_name = Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon | birth_date = (1900-08-04)4 August 1900 | birth_place = Hitchin or London, England | death_date = 30 March 2002(2002-03-30) (aged 101) | death_place = Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, England | burial_date = 9 April 2002 | burial_place = King George VI Memorial Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | spouse = {{marriage|George VI|26 April 1923|6 February 1952|reason=died</ref>

A statue of Elizabeth by sculptor Philip Jackson was unveiled in front of the George VI Memorial, off The Mall, London, on 24 February 2009, creating the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial.

In March 2011, Elizabeth's eclectic musical taste was revealed when details of her small record collection kept at the Castle of Mey were made public. Her records included ska, local folk, Scottish reels and the musicals Oklahoma! and The King and I, and artists such as yodeller Montana Slim, Tony Hancock, The Goons and Noël Coward.

Eight years before her death, Elizabeth had reportedly placed two-thirds of her money (an estimated £19 million) into trusts, for the benefit of her great-grandchildren. In her lifetime, she received £643,000 a year from the Civil List, and spent an estimated £1–2 million annually to run her household. By the end of the 1990s, her overdraft was said to be around £4 million. She left the bulk of her estate, estimated to be worth between £50 and £70 million, including paintings, Fabergé eggs, jewellery, and horses, to her surviving daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Under an agreement reached in 1993, property passing from monarch to monarch is exempt from inheritance tax, as is property passing from the consort of a former monarch to the current monarch, so a tax liability estimated at £28 million (40 percent of the value of the estate) was not incurred. The most important pieces of art were transferred to the Royal Collection by Elizabeth II. Following her death, the Queen successfully applied to the High Court so that details of her mother's will would be kept secret. This brought criticism from the Labour Party politicians and segments of the public, and the Queen eventually released the outlines of her mother's will.

Titles, honours and arms

Elizabeth's coat of arms was the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (in either the English or the Scottish version) impaled with the canting arms of her father, the Earl of Strathmore; the latter being: 1st and 4th quarters, Argent, a lion rampant Azure, armed and langued Gules, within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second (Lyon); 2nd and 3rd quarters, Ermine, three bows stringed paleways proper (Bowes). The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown, and supported by the crowned lion of England and a lion rampant per fess Or and Gules.

Coat of arms of Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1923–1936)	Coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth	Coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth (Scotland)

Issue

Ancestry

See also

• Household of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
• List of covers of Time magazine (1930s)

Notes

1. From the accession of her husband to the abolition of British India by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The title was abandoned on 22 June 1948.
2. The hyphenated version of the surname was used in official documents at the time of her marriage, but the family itself tends to omit the hyphen.

References

1. Shawcross, p. 8
2. Prince hails Queen Mother tribute, BBC, 24 February 2009, retrieved 6 March 2013
3. "The Queen Mother's regal taste in music", The Telegraph, 14 March 2011, archived from the original on 10 January 2022, retrieved 6 March 2013
4. ^ Bates, Stephen (2 April 2002), "The gamble that foiled the taxman", The Guardian, retrieved 2 June 2018
5. ^ "Queen Inherits Queen Mother's Estate", BBC News, 17 May 2002, retrieved 1 May 2009
6. ^ Alderson, Andrew (12 May 2002), The will without a bill, The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 10 January 2022, retrieved 2 June 2018
7. ^ Bates, Stephen (17 May 2002), "Palace reveals details of Queen Mother's £50m will", The Guardian, retrieved 2 June 2018
8. Wilson, Jamie (6 May 2002), "Tax loophole will save Queen £20m on her mother's will", The Guardian, retrieved 2 June 2018
9. Chamberlain, Gethin (7 May 2002), "Queen to escape £28 million inheritance tax", The Scotsman
10. Queen Mother's will to be secret, BBC, 8 May 2002, retrieved 2 June 2018
11. Brooke-Little, J. P. (1978) , Boutell's Heraldry (Revised ed.), London: Frederick Warne, p. 220, ISBN 978-0-7232-2096-1
12. Pinches, John Harvey; Pinches, Rosemary (1974), The Royal Heraldry of England, Heraldry Today, Slough, Buckinghamshire: Hollen Street Press, p. 267, ISBN 978-0-900455-25-4
13. Wagner, A. R. (1940), "Some of the Sixty-four Ancestors of Her Majesty the Queen", Genealogist's Magazine, 9 (1): 7–13

Bibliography

• Bradford, Sarah (1989), The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, St Martin's
• Forbes, Grania (1999), My Darling Buffy: The Early Life of The Queen Mother, Headline Book Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7472-7387-5
• Hogg, James; Mortimer, Michael, eds. (2002), The Queen Mother Remembered, BBC Books, ISBN 978-0-563-36214-2
• Howarth, Patrick (1987), George VI, Century Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-171000-2
• Goldman, Lawrence (May 2006). "Elizabeth (1900–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76927. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Longford, Elizabeth (1981), The Queen Mother, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Roberts, Andrew (2000), Fraser, Antonia (ed.), The House of Windsor, Cassell and Co., ISBN 978-0-304-35406-1
• Shawcross, William (2009), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-4050-4859-0
• Shawcross, William (2012), Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-75496-6
• Vickers, Hugo (2006), Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Arrow Books/Random House, ISBN 978-0-09-947662-7

External links

• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the official website of the Royal Family
• Queen Elizabeth at the official website of the Royal Collection Trust
• Newspaper clippings about Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
• Portraits of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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