On This Day In History . 4 August 1900 . Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was born . . ◼ Born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth was the youngest daughter & the ninth of ten children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (later the 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland), & his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. . ◼ Her mother was descended from British Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, & Governor-General of India Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who was the elder brother of another Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. . ◼ 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. Other possible locations include Forbes House in Ham, London, the home of her maternal grandmother, Louisa Scott. . ◼ Her birth was registered at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, near the Strathmores' English country house, St Paul's Walden Bury, which was also given as her birthplace in the census the following year. She was christened there on 23 September 1900, in the local parish church, All Saints, & her godparents included her paternal aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon & cousin Venetia James. . Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1900 #QueenMother #Queenmum #QueenElizabeth #RoyalCollection #ElizabethBowesLyon #LadyElizabeth #LadyElizabethBowesLyon #Royalty #RoyalFamily #History #royalhistory #HouseofWindsor #Monarchy #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #D4Aug #Onthisday (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wR31Ega8f/?igshid=me6tuchrx1ft
