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1 posted on 03/30/2002 8:53:26 AM PST by RCW2001
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Am I hallucinating? Didn't she die a few months back?
3 posted on 03/30/2002 8:54:44 AM PST by sigSEGV
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BACKGROUND Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, the present British sovereign, and the widow of the late King George VI. She was born the Honourable Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 4 August 1900 (daughter of Lord Glamis, later 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) and spent her early childhood at St Paul's Waldenbury in Hertfordshire, north of the capital. This was the country home of her parents. The Bowes-Lyon family is descended from the Royal House of Scotland. One of The Queen Mother's 14th-century ancestors became Thane of Glamis, home of Macbeth 300 years before, and Glamis Castle is the family seat
4 posted on 03/30/2002 8:55:07 AM PST by GRRRRR
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She was a real Lady and lived a long and wonderful life..

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6 posted on 03/30/2002 8:56:04 AM PST by spectre
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R.I.P. Queen Mum
7 posted on 03/30/2002 8:56:07 AM PST by codebreaker
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen Mother, the 101-year-old mother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, died on Saturday, Buckingham Palace said.

The Queen Mother, the widow of King George VI and a rock of support behind her eldest daughter Queen Elizabeth, died "peacefully in her sleep" after a period of declining health.

Her death adds personal tragedy to a succession of domestic traumas suffered by the royal family in recent years, most recently the death on February 9 of her younger daughter, Princess Margaret at the age of 71.

8 posted on 03/30/2002 8:56:28 AM PST by RCW2001
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The good ones are going fast..
9 posted on 03/30/2002 8:56:49 AM PST by codebreaker
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God save the Queen!
10 posted on 03/30/2002 8:57:02 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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Lived in three different centuries. Not a bad run.
11 posted on 03/30/2002 8:57:23 AM PST by leadpenny
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Oh no. =( I'm so sorry to hear that.
12 posted on 03/30/2002 8:57:32 AM PST by Aggie Mama
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Queen Mother
13 posted on 03/30/2002 8:57:38 AM PST by hole_n_one
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May God welcome this good woman home and bring peace and comfort to the grieving British people.

Her strength helped her people through terrible times and she was an anchor for both her family and her people.

God bless the Queen Mum.

17 posted on 03/30/2002 8:59:49 AM PST by McGavin999
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If I had a side bar salad ....I would have got this news ASAp...
20 posted on 03/30/2002 9:00:05 AM PST by KQQL
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God rest her soul and comfort her loved ones.
21 posted on 03/30/2002 9:00:39 AM PST by mafree
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How sad... she had a lot of class. She had to witness some pretty unseemly behavior among the new generation of royals... Maybe she can guide them back into behaving respectably again now from above.
22 posted on 03/30/2002 9:00:50 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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My most heartfelt condolences to our cousins across the pond. She was indeed a gracious Queen, a grand and great lady.
23 posted on 03/30/2002 9:01:23 AM PST by Robe
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Very sad.
24 posted on 03/30/2002 9:02:05 AM PST by Dengar01
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R.I.P., your Grace.
26 posted on 03/30/2002 9:02:41 AM PST by Illbay
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A fine lady, and one of the last living symbols of British courage in WWII.

If you look at the Obituaries in the Times or the Telegraph, you see some British war hero's obit two or three times a week. Same thing in this country, only the obits are not concentrated in a few big papers where they're visible as a group. We'll soon have very few who remember the last war with racist nationalism and fascism.

27 posted on 03/30/2002 9:02:46 AM PST by Southern Federalist
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I feel so sorry for all our British friends. May God rest her soul and give the Queen and all the royal family His comfort.
28 posted on 03/30/2002 9:03:36 AM PST by baseballmom
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She has had a long, extraordinary life. May she now rest in peace!

And may God bless her family, especially the Queen, who has had so much to deal with lately.

29 posted on 03/30/2002 9:04:06 AM PST by kayak
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