The Queen Mother’s determination to keep
her distance from Wallis Simpson is at the heart of a new TV
programme. In ‘Queen Mum: the Reluctant Queen’, her attitude
towards the Duchess of Windsor is examined with one letter,
describing her as a ‘’naughty lady’’, taking centre stage. The
description of Wallis came in a letter penned by Elizabeth to her
own mother-in-law, Queen Mary. In…
Stories about the late Aretha Franklin,
the Queen of Soul, are pouring in in the aftermath of her death
last Thursday, including one by her ex-husband about the time she
was introduced to the Queen Mother and members of the Royal Family.
Glynn Turman, Aretha’s ex-husband…
It’s perhaps the most famous and talked
about royal wedding bouquet of all. The flowers carried by the
Queen Mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at her marriage in
April 1923 have entered regal folklore after the bride used them to
begin a royal wedding tradition known…
On the 66th anniversary of The Queen’s
accession to the throne, a former lady-in-waiting to The Queen
Mother and a friend of The Queen has revealed the advice that the
Queen Mother passed along to her young daughter. Lady Penn sat down
for a Channel 5 documentary series about the Queen’s reign,
scheduled to air tonight, and told the interviewer about how The
Queen Mother gave her daughter…
Roy Strong, the man who has spent years
documenting the lives of members of the Royal Family, has alleged
that the Queen Mother made a racist comment. Sir Roy Strong has
published numerous books about his long relationship with the Royal
Family. The second volume was gossip…
A luxury guest house is to be created on
the grounds of the Queen Mother’s Castle of Mey as plans for ten en
suite visitor rooms have been approved by local authority
officials. Under the current plan, the old granary building,
locating 500ft to the north-east of the…
#OnThisDay in 1515 Mary of Guise, Mother
of Mary, Queen of Scots, was born. Mary of Guise was born the
eldest daughter of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, and his wife
Antoinette de Bourbon at Bar-le-Duc in Lorraine on 22 November
1515. A member of the prominent Guise family, Mary (known as Mary
of Guise, Marie de Guise, and Mary di Guise depending on the
source) was born into a house of…
Prince Charles unveils statue of his grandmother, The Queen Mother
27th October 2016
A statue of The Queen Mother has been
unveiled by Prince Charles and The Queen. The bronze statue, which
is 9ft and 6in tall now stands in the square of the new area at the
edge of Dorchester in the new Poundbury development. The square
itself is named after The Queen…
A collection of letters penned by a young
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon- later to become known as the Queen
Mother- to a wounded WWI soldier is set to go under the
hammer. The six letters, which date between 1916-1919, offer an
insight into the intimate friendship between the…
Though the 1930s brought about
tumultuous change for the country and for Queen
Elizabeth, the 1940s would soon become a decade that
nobody would ever forget. It would also be the decade that
Elizabeth would be dubbed ‘the most dangerous woman in Europe’ and
many argue it was her finest decade. The Second World War had
broken out in September 1939 and it was this conflict that would…
