Post by Stunner on Mar 30, 2002 13:27:48 GMT -5
Britain's Queen Mother Dies at 101
Sat Mar 30, 1:05 PM ET
LONDON (AP) - The Queen Mother Elizabeth, who won the country's loyalty and admiration during World War II at the side of King George VI, died Saturday, Buckingham Palace said. She was 101 years old
She died "peacefully in her sleep" this afternoon at Royal Lodge, Windsor, the Palace said.
"Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had become increasingly frail in recent weeks following her bad cough and chest infection over Christmas," said a Palace spokesman.
"Her condition deteriorated this morning and her doctors were called. Queen Elizabeth died peacefully in her sleep at 3.15 this afternoon at Royal Lodge," said the spokesman.
"The Queen was at her mother's bedside," said the spokesman.
The Queen Mother's coffin is expected to be moved to the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park Sunday morning.
She was as popular at the end of her life as she had been a half-century before.
She was best known to younger generations as the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Prince Charles.
But those who were young when German bombs rained down on London and the country awaited Hitler's invasion remembered her as the queen who stayed when she could have fled to Canada, who endured the blitz with them and visited their shattered homes and bomb shelters.
As queen consort to the monarch, George VI, she might have been expected to retire from public life at his death in 1952. But after their daughter's succession to the throne, she took a new title, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and a full load of royal duties, which she carried into her 90s.
Sat Mar 30, 1:05 PM ET
LONDON (AP) - The Queen Mother Elizabeth, who won the country's loyalty and admiration during World War II at the side of King George VI, died Saturday, Buckingham Palace said. She was 101 years old
She died "peacefully in her sleep" this afternoon at Royal Lodge, Windsor, the Palace said.
"Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had become increasingly frail in recent weeks following her bad cough and chest infection over Christmas," said a Palace spokesman.
"Her condition deteriorated this morning and her doctors were called. Queen Elizabeth died peacefully in her sleep at 3.15 this afternoon at Royal Lodge," said the spokesman.
"The Queen was at her mother's bedside," said the spokesman.
The Queen Mother's coffin is expected to be moved to the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park Sunday morning.
She was as popular at the end of her life as she had been a half-century before.
She was best known to younger generations as the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Prince Charles.
But those who were young when German bombs rained down on London and the country awaited Hitler's invasion remembered her as the queen who stayed when she could have fled to Canada, who endured the blitz with them and visited their shattered homes and bomb shelters.
As queen consort to the monarch, George VI, she might have been expected to retire from public life at his death in 1952. But after their daughter's succession to the throne, she took a new title, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and a full load of royal duties, which she carried into her 90s.