Elizabeth, Duchess Of York
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was List of British royal consorts, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was the last Empress of India from her husband's accession 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947. After Death and state funeral of George VI, her husband died, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when Wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she married the Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Mary of Teck, Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Margaret embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. The Duchess undertook a variety o ...
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Richard Stone (painter)
Richard Stone (born 5 June 1951) is a British painter, specialising in portraits. In 1973, at the age of 22, he became the youngest commissioned royal portrait painter in almost 200 years. Stone claims to have secured the commission by cold-calling Clarence House and saying "I could be a latter-day Rembrandt".Roya Nikkhah (10 February 2013"Royal family's favourite portrait painter reveals secrets of the royal sittings" ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 2013-11-27. He has completed commissioned portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princes Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Philip and Andrew, Duke of York, Andrew, and King Charles, Prince of Wales, Charles. He also painted the official Downing Street portrait of Margaret Thatcher, who upon inspecting his work, requested that he add her handbag to the portrait. His portraits hang at Buckingham Palace, the National Portrait Gallery (London), and the National Portrait Galler ...
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