Lady Elizabeth was educated at home ... according to Gareth Russell's candid biography of The Queen Mother. Her brothers would tease her about her ravenous appetite, jokingly forging entries ...
Her parents, King George VI, who died in 1952, and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who died in 2002 ... She just said she was going to be cremated," said Lady Glenconner, a former lady-in ...
Lady Russell's father, the Earl of Haddington, was a childhood friend of the Queen Mother from Scotland. On the day, Queen Elizabeth wore a white duchess satin dress designed by Sir Norman ...
An interesting choice, perhaps, given his chief purpose was, as one biographer puts it, “to try and impose order if not limits on Queen Elizabeth ... Queen Mother’s grandchildren, Lady ...
Lady Katharine Hamilton, the Hon. Diamond Hardinge, the Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Elphinstone and Miss Betty Cator. The wedding dress was made by Madame Handley-Seymour, ...
Despite her mother’s fate, Elizabeth looked up to her father. When she became queen, she would often proudly ... Elizabeth’s cousin Lady Jane Grey had been forced to marry Guildford Dudley.
Queen Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, was the sovereign monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 other commonwealth countries, including Northern Ireland. She was the longest-reigning ...
Robert's mother Mildred, Lady Burghley is buried in the same chapel ... But love permits no grieving while your companion [ie.Queen Elizabeth] still sits upon her throne; and the greater love of ...