As a matter of interest and respect for our UK brethren, I lifted this info
from a regular on line news report I receive every week, called Electric
Scotland,
Doug Ross
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HM QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
4th August 1900 - 30th March 2002
>From Burke's Peerage and Gentry - http://www.burkes-peerage.net
It was with great sadness that Burke's learned of the death of the Queen
Mother on Saturday 30th March. The much-loved Royal, whose life spanned over
a century, died peacefully in her sleep with the Queen at her bedside. It
was the second loss to the Royal Family in this, the Queen's Jubilee year.
Princess Margaret died just seven weeks ago.
She was born the Honourable Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 4
August 1900 fourth daughter of Lord Glamis, later 14th Earl of Strathmore
and Kinghorne.
http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/Contents/book/scotland/FHP/Peerage/fhp-L
YON(BOWES-EARLSOFSTRATHMOREANDKINGHORNE).asp
The Bowes-Lyon family is descended from the Royal House of Scotland. One of
The Queen Mother's 14th-century ancestors, Sir John Lyon, became Thane of
Glamis, home of Macbeth 300 years before, and Glamis Castle is the family
seat.
The Queen Mother's remarkable life spanned over a century, a period of
immense change. Having married The Duke of York (Prince Albert Frederick
Arthur George, later King George VI), The King and Queen's second son on 26
April 1923 in Westminster Abbey, she found herself Queen Consort on the
abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936.
They had two children, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), born
on 21 April 1926 at the Strathmores' London home, 17 Bruton Street, and
Princess Margaret, born on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle.
http://www.burkes-peerage.net/Sites/Peerage/SitePages/page62-6a.asp
On the death of her husband, King George VI, in 1952, she returned to
Scotland to spend some time on her own. Not to Balmoral, but to a small
castle on the very northern tip of the country on the Caithness coast. It
was to become her favourite home. Overlooking the Orkneys on the north coast
of Scotland, the castle was built in the 16th Century by George, 4th Earl of
Caithness. The estate became the seat of the Caithness Earls for many
generations until it left the family's possession towards the end of the
last century, and was given the new name of Barrogill.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother first saw the imposing, turreted building
while staying with friends nearby, and fell in love with it, despite its
deteriorated condition. She gave it back its original name of Mey, and set
about restoring the property to the superb condition it enjoys today.
A period of national mourning leads up to the Queen Mother's funeral on
Tuesday April 9th. For full details visit the official memorial site at
http://www.royal.gov.uk.
Sinclair Earls of Caithness - not only did George, 4th Earl of Caithness
build the Castle of Mey, but an earlier ancestor, SIR HENRY SINCLAIR of
Roslin, who supported KING ROBERT THE BRUCE and was a signatory to the
Scottish Barons' letter to the Pope 1320. This letter to the Pope in 1320
became the inspiration behind the American Declaration of Independence and
in recognition of the huge influence this document had it is now celebrated
on the 6th April each year as Tartan Day.
http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/scotland/sitepages/tdindex.asp
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Of course us Scots claim her as our own! DR
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