Today marks 98 years since the Queen Mother wed the future King George VI The wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was not the grand royal affair befitting a future King and his Consort, because nobody knew that he was to ascend to the throne at the time By Rebecca Cope
The four new books were announced on Monday 19 April, along with a special message from the Duchess. It reads: ‘As Patron of Booktrust, which I inherited from my late father-in-law High Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, I would like to dedicate the next series of my Reading Room to him, in memory of a great fellow reader… C’.