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Article: Queen Mother dies: People loved her for the way she chatted so easily with king and commoner alike; Bitchy Windsors called her'The Dowdy Duchess' - but her life was a triumph compared to theirs YOUNG ELIZABETH GAVE THE KING'S SON CHERRIES FROM HER CAKE... BUT YEARS LATER SHE REFUSED TO MARRY HIM.(News)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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FEW of us can remember a time when she wasn't with us - part of the background tapestry that colours British life.
Always perceived as the rock on which the Royal Family sought shelter from wartime and personal disasters, it's hard to imagine the nation without her.
She became a royal at her family's Hertfordshire country home on January 13, 1923, when the Duke of York, younger son of King George V, asked for her hand.
They met first at a children's party when she, aged five, gave "Bertie" the cherries off the top of her cake. They did not meet ...
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