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...Despite failing health, she managed to greet thousands of well-wishers outside her home on her 101st birthday celebration last August with a raised glass of champagne. Only seven weeks ago, although grief stricken and looking frail, she insisted on attending the funeral of her 71-year-old daughter, Princess Margaret. Last Saturday afternoon, her job well done, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London...
...Still smarting from the scandal of Edward and Mrs. Simpson, she demanded of its members the highest standards of morality and behavior. So the sexual, social and financial shenanigans of the past two decades strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing down. Yet, of them all, grandson Charles was her favorite and she his. Even within the family, a biographer once noted, Charles is seen as the son she never had, she the mother he feels he never...
...invariably evoked during her lifetime. Even though she gave only one interview in the span of a century and never publicly revealed a political opinion or, indeed, very much about herself, Britons felt close to her. With her own brand of happy charm, the Queen Mother, like Princess Diana, had the common touch...
...wreath of white roses and freesias from her daughter bearing the simple message, "In loving memory, Lilibet," the coffin was borne through crowd-lined streets on a gun carriage. Behind it walked 14 members of the royal family, including Princes William and Harry and, breaking the all-male precedent, Princess Anne. Inside the hall, the coffin was placed on a catafalque, where it remained for three days to allow thousands to file past. Prince Charles last week described the Queen Mother as "the original life enhancer." She was all of that, and such a long-lived and joyful fixture...
...turn demanded of family members the highest standards of morality and behavior. So the sexual, social and financial shenanigans of the past two decades, floodlit by a prurient and deference-be-damned press, strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing-down. "[The Queen Mother] came to feel that Diana was a very silly girl and had a poor sense of duty, or devoir, as she often calls it," a lady-in-waiting once said. "Diana sensed that the Queen Mother...