The Reluctant Queen

Even when Elizabeth BowesLyon married the younger brother of the future king, she could never have imagined that she would one day wear the royal crown

Words by Anna Selby
ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON


It was, of course, never supposed to have happened, even though there was no question that all her life belonged in the very highest echelons of society… Born on 4 August 1900, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the ninth (and penultimate)...

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