The Late Queen Mother

[Stamford_Richard]

As It is Jubilee year, I'm trying to compile a royal round for a pub quiz I'm setting for Sunday.
I know that the late Queen Mother had the title 'Her Majesty' at the end of her life, but when did she assume this title? Was she 'Her Majesty' when she was Queen Consort or was she 'HRH' until she was widowed?
Can anybody point me to a reference for this, please?

[craft1948]

Wasn't she crowned Queen Consort at her husband's coronation?

[Mamyalynne]

Queen Mother

[edit]Widowhood
King George VI died peacefully in his sleep on 6 February 1952. Shortly afterward, Elizabeth began to be styled Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. This style was adopted because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II.[82] Popularly, she became the "Queen Mother" or the "Queen Mum".[

[Mamyalynne]

From Wiki

[cathfromsaron]

she was HRH the day of the coronation and forever!

[Stamford_Richard]

Thanks, Mamya, but was she 'Her Royal Highness' or 'Her Majesty' before she was widowed? That's what I can't find out.

[craft1948]

I would have thought that as a crowned Queen she would be her majesty..... Wasn't she referred to as her majesty on the films of her in the blitz?

[cathfromsaron]

that is because she was not the QM until she was widowed!

why not research unjder her own name, elizabeth bowes lyon:

http://en.wikipedia.o..._Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon

[Stamford_Richard]

Thanks cathfromsaron. That's interesting.

[bert_h]

It's quite certain that she was "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth" as from the abdication of Edward VIII in December 1936 and the immediate accession of her husband to the throne as George VI, right up until his death in February 1952. The Coronation doesn't alter anybody's title, it just confirms it.

[cathfromsaron]

oops, yes since the abdication NOT coronation, i stand corrected!