Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was the last Empress of India from her husband's accession 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947. After her husband died, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when she married the Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters Elizabeth and Margaret embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has received more than 25,245,198 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is the 11th most popular nobleman (down from 8th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Nobleman.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is most famous for being the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and the wife of King George VI.