Britain’s Queen Mother, 101
Posted: Saturday, March 30th, 2002 1:22 pmBritain’s Queen Mother, Elizabeth, who won the country’s loyalty and admiration during World War II at the side of King George VI, died in her sleep Saturday, Buckingham Palace said. She was 101 years old.
Queen Elizabeth II was at her mother’s bedside when the matriarch of the royal family died at 3:15 p.m. (10:15 a.m. EST) at Royal Lodge in Windsor, said a Palace spokesman.
Her death came less than two months after the death of her younger daughter, Princess Margaret, at age 71. …
She was best known to younger generations as the mother of the queen and grandmother of Prince Charles.
But those who were young when German bombs rained down on London and the country awaited Hitler’s invasion remembered her as the queen who stayed when she could have fled to Canada, who endured the blitz with them and visited their shattered homes and bomb shelters.
As queen consort to the monarch, George VI, she might have been expected to retire from public life at his death in 1952. But after their daughter’s succession to the throne, she took a new title, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and a full load of royal duties, which she carried into her 90s. … Read full obituary
See also: Princess Margaret
