Tour Scotland Photograph Queen Mothers Bedroom Glamis Castle

Tour Scotland photograph of the Queen Mother's bedroom in Glamis Castle, Scotland. The Queen Mother. At her birth Elizabeth's parents were Lord and Lady Glamis. Her father, Claude, was heir to the ancient Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Her mother, Nina Cecilia Cavendish Bentinck, was of the family of the Dukes of Portland. Her family home was, in 1900, St. Paul's Walden Bury in Hertfordshire. Glamis Castle was, at the time, the home of Elizabeth's grandfather, the 13th Earl. She was the ninth of ten children. The first born, Violet Hyacinth, whom the Queen Mother never knew, had died tragically in 1893 of a heart problem caused by diphtheria. She was aged eleven. When Elizabeth arrived on 4th August 1900 the ages of the other children, Mary, Patrick, Jock, Alexander, Fergus, Rose and Michael spanned from seventeen down to seven years. Her brother Patrick, as eldest son, would later become the 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.



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