Re: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom

[LouisFerdinand]

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attended church in Hertforshire in 1937.     
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attend Church in Hertfordshire (1937) - YouTube

[LouisFerdinand]

In February 1928 Albert and Elizabeth, The Duke and Duchess of York, attended the Salvation Army Composers' Festival at the Congress Hall, Linscott Road, Clapton.

[LouisFerdinand]

What made Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon acceptable to Queen Mary was that she possessed royal blood. She was descended from King Robert II of Scotland. She was not just an aristocrat. She was an aristocrat of Royal descent.

[LouisFerdinand]

Prince Albert, The Duke of York sent Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a box for Christmas in 1920. By January 1921 he was courting her.   

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[LouisFerdinand]

When Elizabeth was born in 1900, she was not Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Her father Claude was Lord Glamis. He did not become Earl of Strathmore until 1904.   

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[LouisFerdinand]

The coronation procession of King George VI of England on May 12, 1937 was more than 9.6 kilometres long. This made it the longest coronation procession up to that time.

[Amabel2]

What made Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon acceptable to Queen Mary was that she possessed royal blood. She was descended from King Robert II of Scotland. She was not just an aristocrat. She was an aristocrat of Royal descent.

Many aristrocrats had royal blood. And George V had said after the war that he was OK with his children marrying into the British aristocracy rather than seeking royal parnters abroad.

[Curryong]

Many aristrocrats had royal blood. And George V had said after the war that he was OK with his children marrying into the British aristocracy rather than seeking royal parnters abroad.

Well exactly! A lot of aristocrats, including some who married into the royal family in the last fifty years have royal blood, many from Charles II who had many mistresses who bore illegitimate sons. The First World War changed everything. The German royal houses (from which many royal brides had come over the centuries) was no longer available due to bad feeling over Britain and the Empire?s war dead. No Romanov bride would be really acceptable either, and the survivors were all scattered anyway. There were plenty of young upper class British women around and that was the class George V?s sons mixed with socially.

  As did his only daughter, admittedly to a much lesser extent. I?m not sure about the sons but I do have a feeling that if there had been no war and tensions had eased that the Princess Royal might have ended up with one of Kaiser Bill?s younger sons, or a young man from a non-Hohenzollern royal family.

[Amabel2]

or perhaps with social changes, which might have taken place naturally, the King woudl have been ok iwht his children marrying British aristocrats

[LouisFerdinand]

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1913   
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon The Queen Mother (1900-2002) as a young girl in 1913 Stock Photo - Alamy   

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[LouisFerdinand]

Queen Elizabeth visited Queen Alexandra Veteran's Retirement Home, Gifford House, Worthing   
Mary Evans Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 13265729