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  1. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon spent much of her childhood at Glamis Castle, twelve miles north of Dundee, which has belonged to the Lyon family since the fourteenth century. The oldest surviving parts of the castle date from 1372, although it was remodelled in the seventeenth century by the 3rd Earl of Strathmore, who added the distinctive turrets with conical roofs.

  2. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century, Sandringham Hall in Norfolk became a royal residence in 1863 when the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, moved there shortly after their wedding. The Georgian structure was found to be too small for the demands of a growing family and the Prince of Wales ...

  3. John Piper’s Views of Windsor. In her single most important act of patronage, Queen Elizabeth commissioned a series of watercolour views of Windsor Castle from John Piper during the Second World War. They were intended to serve as a record of the Castle in case it was damaged by enemy bombs. The result was a virtuoso performance of ...

  4. Soon after the accession of King George VI in 1936, Queen Elizabeth began to form a small but well-chosen collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British watercolours and drawings. A number of works, such as those by Thomas Gainsborough and John Varley, reflect her wider interest in the landscape tradition.

  5. The museum is closed for building conservation. While the YCBA is closed, access to the collections is by appointment only. Search Options:

  6. The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and grandmother of Prince Charles, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined ...