Bowes Collection (#3)

Royal Wedding 1923 - ILN cover
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring a four year old Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, with her younger brother David

Royal Wedding 1923 - The Wing Commander by Elcock
Symbolic illustration by Howard K. Elcock celebrating the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923

Royal Wedding 1923 - some of the presents
A page showing a selection of the gifts presented to the Duke and Duchess of York on the occasion of their marriage on 29 April 1923

Royal visit to Washington, 1939
The visit of King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, to Washington D.C. The procession from Union Station to the White House

Royal Wedding 1923 - the altar at the Abbey
The scene of the Duke of Yorks wedding to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923; the altar of Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey had not been used as a venue for royal weddings for 650 years

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Duchess of York, then Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002), portrayed by John St

Bystander Royal Wedding Number - Duchess of York
Lady Elizabeth Angela Margeurite Bowes-Lyon (1900 - 2002), Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, specially drawn for The Bystander Wedding Number by Alan Stern in her bridal veil

Bridesmaids and Best Man for wedding of Princess Mary
In Hymens Train : The Bridesmaids and the Best Man for the wedding of Princess Mary, Princess Royal, with Henry, Viscount Lascelles, later the 6th Earl of Harewood

Organist at the Royal Wedding
Mr Sydney Nicholson, organist at Westminster Abbey, who played a specially composed anthem for the royal wedding between Prince Albert, Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923

Royal wedding - Douglas Stuart advertisement
Advertisement in the royal wedding souvenir number of The Sketch for Douglas Stuart of New Oxford St, London, suggesting a toast to H.R.H the Duke of York and his charming bride-to-be

Royal Wedding 1923 - five of the bridesmaids
Five the eight bridesmaids at the Royal Wedding between Prince Albert, Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923

Royal wedding 1923: Duchess of Yorks bouquet
The Duchess of Yorks thoughful wedding day tribute to the unknown soldier: her bouquet of roses and heather on the grave at Westminster Abbey. Date: May 1923

The Duchess of York by C. Vandyk
Lady Elizabeth Angela Margeurite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, portrayed in a special portrait by C

Wedding gift to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
A mantelet of ostrich feathers, presented to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon by the farmers of South Africa on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Albert

Royal Wedding 1923 - bridesmaids leaving the Abbey
The bridesmaids attending Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her marriage to Prince Albert, Duke of York on April 26 1923, depart Westminster Abbey after the ceremony in a car which would convey them to

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at her ancestral home
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), picture with her mother, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne at her home, Glamis Castle

In and Around Westminster during the Royal Wedding
Some impressions in and around Westminster of the Royal Wedding. Some humorous sketches showing scenes in London mainly of spectators trying to find the best vantage point to see the royal wedding

A royal bridesmaid, Lady May Cambridge
Lady May Cambridge (1906 - 1994), later Lady Henry Abel Smith Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone (Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice)

Officiating clergy at the Royal wedding, 1923
Page from The Sphere showing the officiating clergy at the marriage of Prince Albert, Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923 at Westminster Abbey

The Sphere front cover - royal honeymoon
The Duke of Duchess of York on their honeymoon at Polesden Lacey, the Surrey home of Mrs Greville. The smaller, inset pictures show incidents during the honeymoon

Royal Wedding 1923 - Royal pair and bridesmaids
Double page spread for The Bystander featuring Prince Albert, Duke of York together with his bride, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who he married on 26 April 1923 at Westminster Abbey

The Duke of York by C. Vandyk
King George VI (1895 - 1952), as Duke of York in a special portrait done to commemorate his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923

Lady Glamis and children
One of the eight bridesmaids at the royal wedding between Prince Albert, Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923, the Hon

Royal Wedding 1923 - coat of arms
The combined married coat of arms of the Duke and Duchess of York, showing the conjoined arms of the Windsor and Strathmore families

Cambridge-Abel Smith Balcombe wedding, 1931
The Duke and Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth at the Cambridge-Abel Smith wedding in Balcombe village church, West Sussex

Royal Wedding 1923 - ILN front cover
Front cover of The Illustrated London News celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert, Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923. Date: 1923

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co Durham, England, is a French style chateau, housing a permanent collection of art, furniture and ceramics. Date: opened 1892

Queen Mothers 80Th
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, photographed waving to the crowds from the Royal Carriage, on her 80th birthday (4 August 1980). Date: 1900 - 2002

Elizabeth / 1923 Engaged
Lady ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON, queen of George VI, at the time of their engagement, 1923 Date: 1900 - 2002

Sir Philip Broke - 1
SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE BROKE British naval commander Date: 1776 - 1841

Royal Wedding Cake, 1923
A full page advertisement in the April issue of The Sphere covering the royal wedding of the Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, placed by McVitie and Price of Edinburgh, who strangely

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her wedding day
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Duchess of York, then Queen Elizabeth, then Queen Mother, pictured leaving her parents house in Bruton Street

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her wedding day
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Queen Elizabeth, and then Queen Mother, pictured leaving her parents house in Bruton Street on her wedding day

Duke and Duchess of York on honeymoon

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York
Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Duchess of York, Queen Elizabeth and then Queen Mother (to Queen Elizabeth II). Wife of King George VI

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a bridesmaid
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a bridesmaid at the wedding of her future sister-in-law, Princess Mary (the Princess Royal) to Lord Lascelles (the Earl of Harewood) in 1922

Englands test match victory: Verity and Bowes
The hero of Englands victorious match: Verity(right), the Yorkshire slow left handed bowler, who took 15 wickets for 104, with Bowes, who took 4 wickets

Queen Mother with Margaret and Elizabeth
The Queen consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of King George VI (1900-2002) with her daughers Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926) and Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002)

The Kings sailor son
A portrait of Prince Albert (1895-1952), second son of King George V and father of Queen Elizabeth II, taken during his service in the Royal Navy in the First World War

Andrew Rs Bowes
ANDREW ROBINSON STONEY BOWES Adventurer who married the Countess of Strathmore : portrait done in 1799

George Vi / Wife / Informal
GEORGE VI & ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON An informal portrait

George Vi / Wife C1929
GEORGE VI AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON as Duke and Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth

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