H.R.H Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900?2002, - pictured here when Duchess of York. The Queen consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India.