Queen Mother 1900-2002
Queen Mother 1900-2002
Here's a role model for Harry to look up to as Queen Mother statue unveiled
SHE lived to 101, sustained by gin and tonic, horseracing and the Highlands' fresh air. Yet a younger face of the Queen Mother was unveiled yesterday by her daughter, the Queen, on a new national monument that celebrates the woman she was rather than the "nation's granny" which she later became.
Queen Mother's memorial unveiled in London
THE QUEEN led the nation in honouring her mother's memory today as she unveiled a national monument dedicated to the much-loved Royal.
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Jail for paedophile butler who took victim to tea with Queen Mother
A PAEDOPHILE royal butler who took one of his victims to tea with the Queen Mother was jailed for a minimum of six years yesterday.
Queen Mother tribute
A CONCERT dedicated to the Queen Mother will be staged this summer, it was announced yesterday.
Queen Mother statue unveiled
THE final design for the national memorial to the Queen Mother was unveiled today.
Palace to have Queen Mother reminder
THE Queen Mother's life is to be marked with a statue of her alongside that of her husband, King George VI, looking towards Buckingham Palace.
In living memory
Deciding upon a fitting tribute to someone whose life and work was as varied as that of the late Queen Mother is no mean feat. But shortly after her death in 2002, and in response to public demand, a charity was formed, chaired by David Bowes-Lyon (also chairman of Strathmore Estates, which includes Glamis Castle), and it was decided that a garden would be a suitable celebration of the great lady's life - a real living memorial.
Royal opening for Queen Mum garden
THE Queen is to open a memorial garden dedicated to her mother at the Royal Botanic Garden this summer.
Queen Mother's Glamis memorial to get go-ahead
PLANS for memorial gates to honour the Queen Mother at her childhood home, Glamis Castle, are set to get the go-ahead this week, three months after a previous design was rejected as mediocre.
Entries in for Royal memorial
ARTISTS and architects have been submitting designs for a London memorial to the Queen Mother.
Call for submissions for Queen Mother memorial
PLANS for a national monument to the Queen Mother have been announced by Buckingham Palace.
£5 coin to fund Queen Mother's memorial
PLANS for a national monument to the Queen Mother have been announced by Buckingham Palace.
Capital's memorial garden for Queen Mother is taking root
WORK on a memorial garden to honour the late Queen Mother has got under way in the Capital's Royal Botanic Garden.
Princess diaries
JUST as one royal scandal, at least, seemed to have been left to rest in peace, it is being resurrected, returning to haunt the Windsor family once more. For long before Paul Burrell touted tabloid tales of what the butler saw of the warring Waleses, there was a Scottish governess, Marion Crawford, whose gushing outpourings in the 1940s and 1950s about "the little princesses" - Elizabeth and Margaret Rose - left the late Queen Mother feeling betrayed.
Memorial to Queen Mother
THE Queen Mother - Scotland’s best-loved Royal - will be remembered in a £2 million memorial next to a statue of her husband in London. It will be funded by a commemorative coin released for the Queen’s 80th birthday, the Chancellor announced.
Campbell's role in funeral row revealed
DETAILS of Alastair Campbell’s battle to clear the Prime Minister of having sought to gain a bigger role in the Queen Mother’s funeral were released under the Freedom of Information Act yesterday.
Celtic maze for Queen Mum
A GIANT Celtic maze is to be installed in the Royal Botanic Garden as the first public memorial to the Queen Mother.
Giant maze memorial to Queen Mum
A GIANT Celtic maze is to be installed in the Royal Botanic Garden as the first public memorial to the Queen Mother.
Visitors let in on Queen Mother's bedroom gossip
THE Queen Mother’s reading habits and liking for celebrity gossip are revealed as her bedroom at her summer retreat opens to the public for the first time.
Prince's tribute to Queen Mother
THE Prince of Wales is building a lasting tribute to his grandmother, the Queen Mother, in the garden of her favourite holiday home.
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