Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon Quotes
We'd have to go self-service.
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen Mother of England, Empress of India, Statement to a Tory Minister who was visiting the palace and noticed that there were some homosexual servants and advised her not to hire gay help
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This was the first political statement of either party regarding gay rights
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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.