How one Elizabeth went from Queen to the Monarch's mother
4th February 2022
Born 4 August 1900, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon would go from a family of British nobility to becoming Queen consort. And then, eventually, she became the mother of Britain’s longest-reigning Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V, initially proposed to Elizabeth in 1921. At first, she turned him down being afraid she would…