1953–2002
President
Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospitals
1937–2002
Formerly Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Club for Officers
1941–1947
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney
1942–1998
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation
1953–2002
Formerly Queen Elizabeth’s Training College for the Disabled, and then for Disabled People
Queen Elizabeth’s Overseas Nursing Service Association
1953–2002
Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild
1953–2002
Formerly Queen Mary’s London Needlework Guild
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust, East Grinstead
1949–2002
Queens College, Cambridge
1948–2002
Patroness
Queen’s College, London
1937–2002
Queen’s College, Oxford
1937–2002
Patroness
Queen’s Nursing Institute
1953–2002
Formerly the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
Queen’s Nursing Institute, Scotland
1928–2002
Formerly the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing Scotland
President 1928–1953
Patron 1953–2002
Racing Welfare
1991–2002
Formerly Racing Welfare Charities
Railway Benevolent Institution
1937–2002
Regular Forces Employment Agency
1937–2002
Formerly National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen
Research into Ageing
1976–2002
Formerly British Foundation for Age Research, then Age Action Trust
Roads Beautifying Association
1930–1965
Patroness
Robert Mayer Concerts for Children
1937–1979
Sadler’s Wells Foundation
1937–2002
And Sadler’s Wells Trust from 1980
Sailors Families Society
1937–2002
Formerly Sailors Orphans Home, Hull, then Sailors Children’s Society
R. Sailors Rests (Portsmouth & Devonport)
1937–2002
St Albans Cathedral Music Trust
1996–2002
Patron-in-Chief
St Andrew’s Ambulance Association
1937–2002
St John Ambulance Association & Brigade (Nursing Corps and Divisions)
1937–2002
Commandant-in-Chief
St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington
1930–2002
President
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School
1954–2002
Salmon & Trout Association
1953–2002
Sandringham District Nursing Association
1937–1948
Sandringham Women’s Institute
1937–2002
President
R. School (for Daughters of
1932–1937
President
Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines)
1937–2002
Patron
R. School for Deaf Children, Margate
1937–2002
R. School of Church Music
1950–2002
R. School of Needlework
1923–1937
President
1937–2002
Patron
Schoolmistresses’ & Governesses’ Benevolent Institution
1937–2002
Formerly Governesses’ Benevolent Institution
Schools Music Association
1961–2002
Scotland’s Churches Scheme
1995–2002
R. Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
1944–2002
Scottish Children’s League of Pity
1924–
Patroness
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
1950–2002
Formerly Scottish Council of Social Service
Scottish Disability Foundation
1983–2002
Scottish National Institution for the War Blinded
1937–2002
Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
1961–2002
Scottish Orthopaedic Council
1942–1955
R. Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
1937–2002
R. Scottish Society of Arts
1938–2002
R. Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours
1937–2002
Scottish Women’s Hospitals (Memorial) Association
1923–1958
President
Shaftesbury Homes and ‘Arethusa’
1937–2002
Shaftesbury Society
1937–2002
Shetland Pony Stud Book Society
1980–2002
Silk & Man-made Fibre Users Association
1953–1970
Formerly Silk and Rayon Users Association
Sir George Thalben-Ball Memorial Trust
1989–2002
President
Sir Peter O Sullevan Charitable Trust
2002
Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust
1979–2002
R. Smithfield Club
1983
President of the Show
1987
President of the Show
1988
President of the Show
1989
President of the Show
1994
Vice-President
R. Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon
1953–1975
R. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1952–2002
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
1977–2002
Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists
1981–2002
Formerly the Society of Chiropodists
R. Society of Edinburgh
1948–2002
R. Society of Musicians of Great Britain
1937–2002
R. Society of Painters in Water-colours
1947–2002
South London Hospital for Women
1925–1948
President
1948–1984
Hon. President
Special Forces Club
1987–2002
SSAFA Forces Help
1923–2002
Formerly Soldiers’, Sailors and Airmen’s Families Association and Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, amalgamated in 1997
Sunningdale Ladies Golf Club
1938–2002
Captain 1932
Teachers Housing Association
1937–2002
Formerly National Union of Teachers Benevolent & Orphan Fund
Teesdale Buildings Preservation Trust
1977–1999
Textile Benevolent Association (1970)
1967–2002
Thistle Foundation
1945–2002
Three Choirs Festival
1938–2002
Tidy Britain Group
1960–2001
Formerly Keep Britain Tidy Group
Toc H
1931–2002
Tower Hill Improvement Trust
1935–2002
President, Ladies Council 1934
Trefoil Guild
1960–2002
Trinity Hospice
1926–2002
Formerly The Hostel of God
UK Youth
1927–2002
President, Girls Clubs 1927
> Patron, Girls Clubs 1937
Patron, Girls & Mixed Clubs 1945
Patron. Nat. Assoc. Youth Clubs 1961
Patron, Youth Clubs UK 1988
Patron, UK Youth 2001
Unicorn Preservation Society
1974–2002
United Associations of Great Britain and France
1937–1952
Patron with The King
R. United Kingdom Beneficent Association (Rukba)
1937–2002
United Nursing Services (South Street) Club
1925–1992
United Society for Christian Literature
1950–2002
University College Hospital
1925–2002
University of Aberdeen Development Trust
1982–2002
University of Oxford Development Programme
1988–2002
Vacani School of Dancing
1927–2002
R. Veterinary College Animal Care Trust
1982–2002
Victoria Cross and George Cross Association
1983–2002
President
R. Victoria Hall Foundation
1937–2002
Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship
1923–2002
Victoria League in Scotland
1951–2002
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
1955–2002
Grand President
Virginia Water & Long Cross District Nursing Association
1937–1948
R. Wanstead Foundation
1939–2002
Formerly R. Wanstead School
West Cumbria Health Care NHS Trust
1970–2002
Formerly West Cumberland Hospital
West Ham Central Mission
1929–2002
Formerly Child Haven, then Greenwood Children’s Home
Westminster Abbey Special Choir
1925–1985
Westminster Children’s Society
1933–2002
Formerly City of Westminster Health Society
Widows Friend Society
1936–2002
Windsor District Nursing Association
1945–1948
R. Wolverhampton School
1937–2002
Women’s College Hospital, Toronto
1962–2002
Women’s Land Army Benevolent Fund
1941–1957
HM sent messages for reunions until the final one in 2001
Women’s Royal Voluntary Service
1939–2002
President
World Angus Secretariat
1999–2002
Young Women’s Christian Association of Great Britain
1923–1937
1937–2002
Patroness, Girls Section Patron, National Association
Young Women’s Christian Association Central Club
1937–2002
MISCELLANEOUS APPOINTMENTS
R. Agricultural Society
1959
Trustee
1960
President
1998
Hon. Trustee
Charterhouse, The
1953–2002
Royal Governor
Cinque Ports
1978–2002
Lord Warden and Constable of Dover Castle
Girton College, Cambridge
1948–2002
Visitor
Middle Temple, the Honourable
1944–2002
Master of the Bench
Society of the
1949
Treasurer
Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Kt, in Chatham (Almshouses)
1978–2002
Governor as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
St John of Jerusalem, Order of the Hospital of
1927
Dame Grand Cross
University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1954–1971
President
University of Dundee
1967–1977
Chancellor
University of London
1955–1980
Chancellor
NOTES
Abbreviations
BUA Birmingham University Archives
CAC Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
CHAR Chartwell Papers
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FO Foreign Office
GLLD Papers of first Baron Lloyd of Dolobran
LAC/BAC Library and Archives Canada/Bibliotheque et Archives Canada
LASL Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles
NLS National Library of Scotland
RA Royal Archives
RCIN Royal Collection Inventory Number
SPW St Paul’s Walden Bury
PROLOGUE
1 Birthday card, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
2 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 6 August 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
ONE: AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD 1900–1914
1 The Book of Record: A Diary written by Patrick Third Earl of Kinghorne and First of Strathmore and other documents relating to Glamis Castle 1684–1689. Rendered into modern spelling and punctuation from the edition published by the Scottish History Society in 1890 by David M. Gauld, privately printed, 2004
2 Charles E. Hardy, John Bowes and the Bowes Museum, Friends of the Bowes Museum, 1989, p. 10
3 James Wentworth Day, The Queen Mother’s Family Story, Robert Hale, 1967, pp. 22–3
4 Ibid., p. 24
5 J. Foot, Lives of Andrew Robinson Bowes Esq. and the Countess of Strathmore… (1810), quoted in Hardy, p. 10
6 Wentworth Day, p. 27
7 Streatlam and Gibside, the Bowes and Strathmore Families in County Durham, Durham County Council, 1980
8 Wendy Moore, Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009, p. 93
9 Wentworth Day, p. 36
10 Moore, p. 239
11 Ibid., p. 253
12 Rosalind K. Marshall, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, article on Mary Eleanor Bowes
13 Wentworth Day, p. 85; Stafford M. Linsley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, article on John Bowes
14 Harry Gordon Slade, Glamis Castle, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2000, p. 11
15 Lord Frederick Hamilton, The Days before Yesterday, Hodder & Stoughton, 1920, p. 247
16 Ibid., pp. 242–3, 245
17 Letters between Lord Glamis and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, undated, Glamis Archives
18 Thirteenth Earl of Strathmore, diary, 16 July 1881, Glamis Archives
19 1901 Census return for The Bury, St Paul’s Walden
20 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, passport issued on 23 May 1921, Glamis Archives
21 Diana Lyttelton to Editor, Woman’s Weekly, 6 & 11 July 1950; to Jennifer Ellis, 8 August 1952, RA QEQMH/PRS/4
22 Russell T. Grant to Queen Elizabeth, 14 October 1978, RA QEQMH/GEN/1978/British Astrological Society
23 Thirteenth Earl of Strathmore, diary, 21 August 1900, Glamis Archives
24 Grania Forbes, My Darling Buffy, Headline, 1999, pp. 3–7
25 Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Coronet, 1985, p. 39
26 Hugo Vickers, Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Hutchinson, 2005, pp. 1–2
27 Rev. Canon Dendle French to Elizabeth Leeming, 5 February 2005. See also Canon Dendle French to Lucy Murphy, 12 January 1983, RA QEQMH/GEN/1983/St Paul’s Walden
28 J. M. Roberts, History of the World, Hutchinson, 1976, p. 885
29 Ibid.
30 Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House, Yale University Press, 1978, p. 298
31 Richard Beaumont, Purdey’s: The Guns and the Family, David & Charles, 1994, p. 104
32 Jill Franklin, The Gentleman’s Country House and Its Plan 1835–1914, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, p. 81
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