[The future Queen Mum with her brother David]
Citaat:
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the youngest daughter and the ninth of ten children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, (later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland), and his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. Her mother was descended from British Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Governor-General of India Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who was the elder brother of another Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. (Lady Colin Campbell claims Elizabeth's biological mother was the family cook, Marguerite Rodiere, by means of a surrogacy arrangement that was not uncommon in aristocratic families at the time. This theory is condemned by royal biographers such as Michael Thornton and Hugo Vickers.[6] In an earlier allegation, published by Kitty Kelley in 1997, Elizabeth's mother is said to have been a Welsh maid.[7])
The location of her birth remains uncertain, but reputedly she was born either in her parents' Westminster home at Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, or in a horse-drawn ambulance on the way to a hospital.[8] Other possible locations include Forbes House in Ham, London, the home of her maternal grandmother, Mrs Scott.[9] Her birth was registered at Hitchin, Hertfordshire,[10] near the Strathmores' English country house, St Paul's Walden Bury, which was also given as her birthplace in the census the following year.[11] She was christened there on 23 September 1900, in the local parish church, All Saints, and her godparents included her paternal aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon and cousin Mrs Arthur James.[12]
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I finally saw The Kings Speech and I liked the way Helena Bonham Carter channeled the Queen Mom, Elizabeth. I noticed she was wearing thick white make up, god knows why. Or was the real person also in the habit of plastering her face like that? Why?
The movie is nearly perfect, and the best scene is when Mrs Logue, played by Jennifer Ehle from Pride and Prejudice fame, comes home to find the Queen sitting at her dinner table taking tea, and the King entering from her den. If this really happened, just like this, it must have been a great shock.
The actress who channeled Wallis Simpson had the same narrow hips as the titless Simpson, who was believed to be really a man.
[The twice divorced, narrow hipped and titless Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the would be American Queen of Britain]
Actor Guy Pearce as seen in Priscilla, playing an over the top tranny. There must be some heavy irony in casting him in the role of the wayward Edward VIII. I personally have always trouble seperating actors and actresses from their former roles, and the makers of The Kings Speech, perhaps wanted to share something of the scandal of the Prince of Wales/ King Edward VIII, abdicating because 'of the woman I love,' who might have been a guy.
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, who treated him as her busboy