Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth

IIHer Majesty’s full titles,

which were accorded her at her coronation in

Westminster Abbey on 2 June1953, are: Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace

of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and

of her other Realm and Territories Queen, Head of

the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is as old as the century, having been born Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 4 August 1900. She was the ninth of ten children of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore. She married Prince Albert, “Bertie”, the second son of King George V, on 26 April 1923 and her husband acceded to the Throne on the abdication of his elder brother King Edward VIII on 11 December 1936.

The Queen and the Duke of

Edinburgh with their

grandchildren

Her Majesty and His Royal Highness like nothing more

than to be surrounded by their children

and grandchildren.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

Her Majesty The Queen with her Consort, Prince Philip, Duke of

Edinburgh. Their wedding place was

at Westminster Abbey on 20

November 1947.

Princess Margaret Rose was born in

Scotland at Glamis

Castle on 21 August

1930, the second child

of the Queen Mother