George VI Trivia

1. Elizabeth and the man she would always refer to as "Bertie" had met when they were children, but it wasn't until 1921 that the shy Prince George proposed to her. Why didn't she accept?

From Quiz Elizabeth and Bertie

Answer: She was afraid she could not be herself

Bertie, the later King George VI (1895-1952) actually proposed to the fun-loving and vivacious Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) three times before she finally succumbed. Previously she had said no to his proposals because she felt the confines and strict etiquette and rules of the royal life would not suit her. She was "afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to". In desperation, he enlisted the aid of his mother, Queen Mary (1867-1953) to intervene on his behalf, but although the Queen did visit Elizabeth at her family home in Glamis Castle, Scotland, and felt that Elizabeth was "the one girl who could make Bertie happy", she would not interfere in his private life. Love conquers all, however, and although Elizabeth still had misgivings about the confines of royal life, she accepted the young Prince's final proposal in January, 1923.

From Quiz Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Answer: Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon

Her father wanted one of her names to be Angela because she looked like a cherub.

From Quiz The Last Empress of India

Answer: King George VI

On the 12th May 1937 George VI and his bride were crowned. They retained the titles Emperor and Empress of India until that country's independence in 1947.

From Quiz Bertie and Elizabeth

Answer: December 14, 1895

He was affectionately known as Bertie by his family.

From Quiz Queen Mum

Answer: Because she resembled a cherub

From Quiz King George VI's Hunting Lodge

Answer: Edward VIII

King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 after telling of his intentions of marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, a no-no in royal life.

From Quiz Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: Dangerous or Devoted?

Answer: Energetic and fun

As a young child, it appears that Elizabeth's favorite partner in crime was her youngest brother, David. Stories are told of the exploits of the two at Glamis Castle, which had been the home of the Lyon family since the 1300s. Living there as a child, she and David enjoyed pouring boiling oil, which was water, from the castle turret onto the castle guests, and sometimes kidnapping grounds workers there and holding them until some sort of price would be paid. There is also a story that, after a frantic search when they were noticed missing, the two were found in one of the castle's outbuildings sharing a cigarette! It was with her sense of humor and fun that Elizabeth was known to have faced many of her life's hardships, and gained her the love of many. It has been written that through her personality alone she did much to boost the status of the monarchy in England; many called her "The richest jewel in the Royal Family's crown".

From Quiz Elizabeth and Bertie

Answer: His equerry

Captain James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (1897-1971) would go on to become a Scottish Unionist politician, Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury during WWII, and the later Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and Anthony Eden - but at that time of his life, he was serving as Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George's equerry. Why, the cad! He was also courting Elizabeth at the same time as his employer. One wonders if Bertie knew of this. Whatever the case may be, Bertie won the day - and the lass - and James left his service to take up a post elsewhere. He apparently didn't suffer too badly from losing in the game of love, however, for, in 1923, he married one Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire and the couple went on to have three children.

From Quiz Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Answer: The Earl and Countess of Strathmore

The Earldom of Strathmore dates back to the 14th century and one of her ancestors was Robert the Bruce. Her father inherited the title when Elizabeth was just three years of age.

From Quiz Bertie and Elizabeth

Answer: George V and Mary of Teck

Like his father he was the second son.

From Quiz Queen Mum

Answer: nine

She was the ninth of ten children and closest to her brother, David.

From Quiz King George VI's Hunting Lodge

Answer: December 23, 1907

Three members of the royal family went hunting that frosty morning in Sandringham. King George V, the future Edward VIII, and George VI. Collectively, they bagged 47 rabbits and 1 pheasant.

From Quiz Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: Dangerous or Devoted?

Answer: Hospital for wounded soldiers

Elizabeth was tutored by her mother and private governesses; she had also attended two terms at Misses Birtwistle's Academy. When she was thirteen years old, she passed the Oxford Local Examination with distinction. When World War I began in 1914, Elizabeth was just fourteen years old. Glamis Castle was turned into a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, and Elizabeth was very much a part of the daily life there, reading to soldiers and writing letters to their families. She would also run errands for them and apparently enjoyed playing cards. Her autograph book was signed by a resident there who said, "she was to be "Hung, drawn, & quartered...Hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach and four, and quartered in the best house in the land." When WWI ended, Elizabeth, whose parents had become Lord and Lady Strathmore when she was four years old, began a social life which allowed Elizabeth to meet a variety of interesting and even royal people.

From Quiz Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Answer: St. Paul's Waldenbury

St. Paul's Waldenbury is a beautiful manor house built during the 17th century in Hertfordshire. Though Elizabeth's birthplace is not known for certain, it is suggested that it may have been St. Paul's Waldenbury.

From Quiz Bertie and Elizabeth

Answer: August 4, 1900

From Quiz Queen Mum

Answer: French

From Quiz King George VI's Hunting Lodge

Answer: January 5, 1909

George VI shot his first pheasant while hunting with his brother, the future King Edward VIII.

From Quiz Elizabeth and Bertie

Answer: Bertie was not the heir to the British throne

At that time (the early 1920s), Prince George, as Bertie was titled, was not expected to become King. His older brother Edward held that right, and though, even at that stage, Edward was a weak and self-indulgent young man who didn't really want to be king, there were no signs that he would later go on to abdicate the throne of the United Kingdom, using his desire to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson as his escape route. Poor Wallis Simpson suffered under the scorn of the English people for the rest of her life over that, when the truth was that she desperately tried to talk Edward out of his rash decision. In 1923, however, when all that still lay unrevealed in the future, Bertie and Elizabeth were content in the knowledge that their future together would be as "minor" members of the royal family only, with just the obligatory duties to be carried out now and then when the occasion demanded. There were no real objections then to Elizabeth, Bertie's choice of wife, the girl he truly loved.

From Quiz Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Answer: Six brothers and 3 sisters

One of her sisters, Violet, died of diphteria at age 11, her brother Alexander died young of a brain tumor and her brother Fergus died during the first world war at the battle of the Somme a few days after visiting the family and meeting his newborn daughter. Elizabeth and her youngest brother, David, were inseparable. He died in 1961 while visiting with her at Birkhall.

From Quiz The Last Empress of India

Answer: At a children's party nearly twenty years earlier

Elizabeth's first meeting with 'Bertie' had taken place when she was just five-years-old, but it was to be another fifteen years until the young Prince really noticed the beautiful Scottish aristocrat. In September 1920 Elizabeth's parents held a dance, which was attended by their neighbours, Lord and Lady Airlie, who happened to have a houseguest at that time, a certain Prince, who as a matter of courtesy was, of course, included in the invitation.

From Quiz Bertie and Elizabeth

Answer: Claude George Bowes-Lyon and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is decended from Henry VII.

From Quiz Queen Mum

Answer: Merry Mischief

She was nicknamed this due to her happy, yet mischievous nature.

From Quiz King George VI's Hunting Lodge

Answer: David

He took the name Edward, after his grandfather, King Edward VII.

From Quiz Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: Dangerous or Devoted?

Answer: She wanted to honor the memory of her brother, Fergus.

During WWI, four of Elizabeth's brothers served in the army. For a while it was believed that two of them had been killed in the fighting until it was discovered that her brother Michael, who had been reported missing in action in 1917, was in a prisoner of war camp. Her brother, Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, however, who had been an officer in the Black Watch, or Royal Highlanders Regiment, was killed in 1915. On her way to be married at Westminster Abbey, she made a stop at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, where she left her bouquet in memory of her brother. Pictures of the wedding of Elizabeth to Prince Albert show that she did not have a bouquet. After that it became a tradition for royal brides to leave their wedding bouquets or have them sent to the site afterwards.

From Quiz Elizabeth and Bertie

Answer: Green

Elizabeth's wedding dress was designed by Madame Handley Seymour, a court dressmaker to Queen Mary. The material was an ivory chiffon moire that was embroidered over with pearls and silver threads, and the style was very modern indeed - 1920s in fact. No, no before you gasp, it wasn't a knee high flapper's gown. It reached to the floor, but in the straight simple lines of the time, topped by a square neckline. Elizabeth's normal style was soft, feminine, frilly and delicately laced. Her bridal gown would have looked stunning on a tall willowy bride with definite hips and bust, but she was diminutive indeed and the dress just didn't suit her. Around the waist of the gown, such as it was, she wore a girdle of silver leaf on a background a spring green tulle. This trailed delicately to the ground, and was fastened with a thistle of silver and rose. The dress itself was exquisite, as was the matching veil. It was just the wrong dress for that particularly lovely bride. It lacked all shape completely and made her look like a tiny regal stick.

From Quiz Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Answer: Glamis Castle

She helped her sister Rose, later Countess Granville, nurse soldiers at Glamis Castle all through the war.

From Quiz The Last Empress of India

Answer: They were afraid that it would be heard by "disrespectful people"

Apparently Buckingham Palace were concerned that if the service were broadcast it may be heard by rather uncouth people, "some of them sitting in public houses with their hats on!"

From Quiz Bertie and Elizabeth

Answer: 1923

It was a lengthy and determined courtship and his proposal was not accepted the first time.

From Quiz Queen Mum

Answer: The Duchess of York

She was married to Prince Albert (Bertie) at Westminster Abbey.

From Quiz King George VI's Hunting Lodge

Answer: 523

They shot 74 pheasants, 440 partridges, and 9 hares for a grand total of 523.

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