HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002)

[Jose]

Queen Mother was long live and was good alert his age. Queen mother was beloved to royal family and grandchildren,great-grandchildren!

[Skydragon]

Queen Mother memorial plans submitted

A national memorial to the Queen Mother will be erected next to a statue of her husband King George VI near Buckingham Palace later this year if plans are approved, the government said on Friday

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/arti...TAIN-ROYAL.xml

[Avalon]

Charles commissions concert for Queen

A concert dedicated to the Queen Mother will be staged this summer, it was has been announced.
The highlight of the musical event will be the world premiere of a piano concerto commissioned by the Prince of Wales in memory of his beloved grandmother, who died in March 2002.
The piece has been written by award-winning composer Nigel Hess, whose scores for television, theatre and film have won him critical acclaim. The announcement of the musical tribute came as the final design for the national memorial to the Queen Mother - a bronze statue of the royal matriarch in Order of the Garter robes - was unveiled.

[BeatrixFan]

Queen Mother memorial plans submitted

About time. I walk past the King George statue almost every day and it looks sadly lacking without the Queen Mother beside it.

[Elspeth]

I'm so glad they're going to have the statue show her at the same age as the King, otherwise they'd look idiotic together, even though most people remember her in her Queen Mum role.

[chrissy57]

Didn't Queen Mary insist that her effigy of her coffin show her as being the age she was when George V died? I think it was done for the same reason - to show her at the age she was when she was the Queen Consort of the deceased King rather than as the mother/grandmother of the subsequent monarchs.

[Skydragon]

As you have said, most people simply don't remember her when she was younger and married to the King.
It is very fitting that it should be placed in The Mall, next to her husband, for all to see.

[Skydragon]

NOT AMUSED OVER QUEEN MUM JOKE

Fury over equality chief's nasty joke about Queen Mum

NOT AMUSED OVER QUEEN MUM JOKE - Top Stories - News - Mirror.co.uk

[BeatrixFan]

What a grotty little man Trevor Phillips is.

[scooter]

Off with his head! Not only rude and off colour but also untrue! I dont remember her having a colostomy operation. Although that would not be something that I could see being announced from Buck House. What a nasty man.

[Warren]

It's unconfirmed speculation. See here and scroll down to December 1966.

[selrahc4]

I know that the Royal Standard is flown at Buckingham Palace or other residences when the Sovereign is in residence. Lately, I ran across a statement in a book (written in 1947 when the Queen Mother was still Queen Consort) which said that her "personal standard, always to be seen flying over Buckingham Palace when she is in residence alone". I took this to mean that if the King was not in residence there the Queen's standard would be displayed if she was there but he was not.

Can any you out there who are knowledgable about these things tell me whether this is true? Thanks in advance.

[wbenson]

I don't see why it wouldn't be true, although I'm pretty sure this isn't extended to other members of the family who have their own standards. Since the Duke of Edinburgh is rarely resident alone in the Palace I don't know if his standard is ever flown.

What (through observation) seems to be the practice is that the standard of the highest-ranking occupant is the only one typically flown, even if there are other family members with standards resident when the principal occupant is gone. Of course, when a higher-ranking family member comes, their standard would be flown so as not to be rude.

[susan alicia]

Will Backstairs Billy, the Queen Mother's eccentric retainer, spill his royal secrets from the grave? | the Daily Mail

and an older article about staff of clarence house:What will happen to Queen Mother's staff? | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

[BeatrixFan]

A friend of mine lives in Kennington just over the road from where Mr Tallon used to reside. Whenever I go to visit her, we always see some famous face as the road is packed with 'names' but I never once saw Backstairs Billy despite him living the closest to her. Then again, if I had seen him, what could I have said? Sad to hear he passed away.

[Bella]

He seems like a really interesting guy and a very devoted employee. Hopefully they're all having tea together on The Otherside.

[susan alicia]

gin and tonics more likely

Originally Posted by Bella

He seems like a really interesting guy and a very devoted employee. Hopefully they're all having tea together on The Otherside.

[Philippe Egalite']

Actually there was no oversight on the part of Henri. What he quoted [above] as "observed" precedence was transcribed verbatim from the official document.
The reader is referred to the Official Website of the British Monarchy, under Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother -> Funeral Arrangements -> Funeral Ceremonial, where it is still quoted, under Members of Foreign Royal Families (attending), Prince Gustav of Denmark.
Evidently, the mistake was on the part of the author(s) of the official List of Foreign Royals attending the Funeral.
And a quick remark. Upon perusing the British Monarchy's official Website, I realized that Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's Funeral was not a State Funeral but a Royal Ceremonial one. A State Funeral carries a somewhat greater gravitas but, importantly, due to the official attendance of foreign dignitaries, it follows an entirely different protocol regarding these guests.

[pinkie40]

It is of my opinion that Mr. Tallon should not have been chastised and kept from the Queen Mother in the final days of her life because of his faux pas regarding Princess Margaret attending in frail health the birthday celebrations of her mother. Perhaps if this was a direct diobedience of an strict order then Mr. Tallon was in the wrong, but maybe there was some confusion...as is often the case with the elderly and the ill.

Princess Margaret was professionally photographed in her role as "Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India" for the lavish book "Keepers of the Kingdom". The princess is obviously in terrible health and severe decline. Even more so than the image of her in the wheelchair we associate with Mr. Tallon.

It is ironic that the Queen Mother is featured (also in obvious decline of health) on the back of the dust jacket of this fascinating book.

[selrahc4]

Originally Posted by pinkie40

It is of my opinion that Mr. Tallon should not have been chastised and kept from the Queen Mother in the final days of her life because of his faux pas regarding Princess Margaret attending in frail health the birthday celebrations of her mother.

It appears from this article that if he was chastised by anyone, it wasn't the Royal Family.

Telegraph Article

On the Queen Mother's 101st birthday in August 2001, William had wheeled Margaret out to join a royal line-up at Clarence House. Many were shocked by her fragility and the decline in her appearance and said she should never have been exposed in that way.
William was devastated and wrote to express his sorrow to the Queen. The letter that he received back, written in her own hand, dispelled any rumour of coldness or resentment that was supposed to have followed.