ELIZABETH ANGELA MARGUERITE BOWES-LYON
The East End was a lower class neighborhood that had suffered enormous damage during the blitz.
The children won't leave without me; I won't leave without the King]; and the King will never leave.
Asked about the possibility of the royal family evacuating London during the WWII blitz when London was being bombed regularly.
The Queen Mother made it a practice not to talk with reporters but she always made a point of allowing photographers to have a photo opportunity at any event at which she was present.
The Queen was visiting South Africa and an Afrikaner mayor buttonholed her to complain about all the indignities that his people had subjected to by the English.
The Queen was urged to take the Princess to safety in Canada.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from 1936 to 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was the last empress of India. After her husband died, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
