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Article: QUEEN MOTHER TRIBUTE: Devotion, duty and determination; EVEN IN HER EIGHTIES AND NINETIES SHE MAINTAINED A ROUND OF ENGAGEMENTS THAT LEFT MEMBERS OF HER ENTOURAGE STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP.(Supplement)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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AT THE time of her 80th birthday the Queen Mother was still carrying out 130 engagements a year.
The nation paid homage and, for the first time since her husband's death, she rode in a state carriage with the Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry for the drive to St Paul's Cathedral for a service of celebration and thanksgiving.
By February 1981, Lady Diana Spencer, was making an impact on the royal scene. But as her wedding to the Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral approached, there were fears that illness would prevent the Queen Mother ...