Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon leaving her home for her wedding
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- 26 April 1923
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) on her wedding day in 1923 leaving her London home in Bruton Street for Westminster Abbey where she married the Duke of York. Daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, she became Queen Elizabeth when the Duke became King George VI after the abdication of Edward VIII. Their eldest daughter is Queen Elizabeth II who took the throne on the death of her father in 1952
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