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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Quotes

1900–2002

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (August 4, 1900 – March 30, 2002), or Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and colloquially known as The Queen Mum, was Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (1936–1952) and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Charles III.

Also known as: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Queen Mother

Random Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon quote

11 quotes

Tinkety tonk old fruit, and down with the Nazis.

Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash.

Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.

I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.

The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.

He is the only man, since my dear husband died, to have had the effrontery to kiss me on the lips.”

I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.

Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1939.

I'll polish it off myself.

Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?

We'd have to go self-service.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.