Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) as Queen Elizabeth was the Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 and the mother of his successor, Queen Elizabeth II, the current British monarch. From 1952 to her death in 2002 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was known as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother LG, LT, CI, GCVO, GBE, ONZ, CC, RRC, CD, or, more popularly, the Queen Mum.

Titles and Honours

Shorthand titles

• The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900–16 February 1904)
• The Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (16 February 1904–26 April 1923)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York (26 April 1923–27 June 1927)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York, DBE (27 June 1927–4 April 1931)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York, CI, DBE (4 April 1931–10 December 1936)
• Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York, CI, DBE, RRC (10–11 December 1936)
• Her Majesty The Queen (11 December 1936–6 February 1952)
• Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (6 February 1952–30 March 2002)

Honours

• King George V Royal Family Order, 2nd Class
• Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem
• Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
• Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India
• Royal Red Cross
• Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
• Grand Master and Principal Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
• King George VI Royal Family Order, 1st Class
• Lady Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
• Royal Victorian Chain
• Queen Elizabeth II Royal Family Order, 1st Class
• Canadian Forces Decoration
• Member of the Order of New Zealand
• Companion in the Order of Canada

Honorary military appointments

• The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Colonel-in-chief (until 1968)
• The Hertfordshire Regiment, Honourary Colonel (until 1961)
• The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Colonel-in-chief (until 1959)
• The London Scottish, Royal Honourary Colonel
• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Colonel-in-chief
• The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own), Colonel-in-chief
• Women's Royal Naval Service, Commandant-in-chief
• Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Air Chief Commandant
• 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Colonel-in-chief (until 1958)
• The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Colonel-in-chief
• The Manchester Regiment, Colonel-in-chief
• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, Colonel-in-chief
• The Witerwatersrand Rifles, Colonel-in-chief (until 1961)
• The Capetown Highlanders (until 1961)
• Women's Royal Army Corps, Commandant-in-chief
• Women's Royal Air Force, Commandant-in-chief (until 1994)
• The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), Royal Honourary Colonel
• 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Colonel-in-chief
• Royal Army Medical Corps, Colonel-in-chief
• Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Colonel-in-chief (until 1964)
• Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Colonel-in-chief
• British South Africa Police, Honourary Commissioner
• The Transvaal Scottish, Colonel-in-chief (until 1961)
• The Inns of Court Regiment, Colonel-in-chief (until 1961)
• 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot), Colonel-in-chief
• University of London OTC, Royal Honourary Colonel
• The King's Regiment, Colonel-in-chief
• The Queen's Own Hussars, Colonel-in-chief
• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, Colonel-in-chief
• RAF Central Flying School, Commandant-in-chief
• 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), Colonel-in-chief
• The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Royal Honourary Colonel
• Inns of Court and City Yeomanry, Royal Honourary Colonel
• The Royal Anglian Regiment, Colonel-in-chief
• The Royal Yeomanry, Royal Honourary Colonel
• The Light Infantry, Colonel-in-chief
• Canadian Forces Medical Service, Colonel-in-chief
• Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, Colonel-in-chief
• The Queen's Own Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish), Colonel-in-chief
• King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry), Royal Honourary Colonel (until 1999)
• Women, Royal Air Force, Commandant-in-chief

She was the only woman to serve as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

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