Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on August 4, 1900.

Elizabeth was the wife of King George V, and mother to Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

A lover of horse racing and a gin tipple right to the end, Elizabeth died in her sleep with Queen Elizabeth at her bedside on March 30, 2002, at the astonishing age of 101.