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Article: 'Queen of Scots'; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900-2002 A Highland heart.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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Byline: RODDY MARTINE
FOR King George V, she was 'the gleam of sunshine ' .
Towards the end of his life, he wrote to his son, the Duke of York: 'The better I know and the more I see of your dear little Scottish wife, the more charming I think she is.' That ability to make everybody fall in love with her was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's enduring talent throughout her long life, during which she became Queen and Queen Mother.
But there was an underlying toughness, too. Growing up as the youngest of eight children possibly had a lot to do with this.
She was born in England four years before her father, Lord Glamis, became 14th Earl of ...