List of titles and honours of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

This is a list of awards, decorations, honours, orders and titles belonging to Queen Elizabeth. Where two dates are listed, then the first indicates the date of the attaining of the award or title, and the second indicates the date of its loss. From 1952 to her death in 2002 Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was known as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Royal and noble titles and styles

Europe

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Titles

• Duchess of York (April 26, 1923 – December 11, 1936)
• Countess of Inverness (April 26, 1923 – December 11, 1936)
• Baroness Killarney (April 26, 1923 – December 11, 1936)
• Queen Elizabeth, Empress of India (December 11, 1936 – August 15, 1948)
• Queen Elizabeth (1948 – February 6, 1952)
• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (February 6, 1952 – March 30, 2002)

Styles

• The Honourable (August 4, 1900 – February 16, 1904)
• The Lady (February 16, 1904 – April 26, 1923)
• Her Royal Highness (April 16, 1923 – December 11, 1936)
• Her Majesty (December 11, 1936 – March 30, 2002)

Other Commonwealth Realms

In the Commonwealth Realms, outside of the United Kingdom, where The Queen Mother was a member of the national Royal Family, no official title was accorded to her through law. Instead she was addressed using her UK title as a courtesy title.

Commonwealth Realms honours

Commonwealth Realms

Country Award or order Class or position Year United Kingdom King George V Royal Family Order 2nd Class 1923-2002 Commonwealth Realms The Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem Dame Grand Cross 1926-2002 United Kingdom Order of the British Empire Dame Grand Cross 1927-2002 United Kingdom Order of the Crown of India Companion 1931-2002 United Kingdom Royal Red Cross 1936-2002 United Kingdom Order of the Garter Lady 1936-2002 Commonwealth Realms Royal Victorian Order Grand Master and Principal Dame Grand Cross 1937-2002 United Kingdom King George VI Royal Family Order 1st Class 1937-2002 United Kingdom Order of the Thistle Lady 1937-2002 United Kingdom Royal Victorian Chain 1937-2002 United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II Royal Family Order 1st Class 1952-2002 Canada Canadian Forces Decoration Date Unknown New Zealand Order of New Zealand Honorary Companion 1990-2002 Canada Order of Canada Honorary Companion 2000-2002 Foreign honours Country Award or order Class or position Year Yugoslavia Order of St Sava Grand Cross 1923-2002 Afghanistan Order of the Supreme Sun 1st Class 1928-2002 File:Flag of Japan - variant.svg Japan Order of the Precious Crown Grand Cordon 1937-2002 France Legion of Honour Grand Cordon (now known as Grand Cross) 1937-2002 Romania Order of the Crown of Romania Grand Cross 1938-2002 France Red Cross Medal 1945-2002 Norway Norwegian War Cross 1945-2002 Nepal The Most Glorious Order of the Ojaswi Rajanya 1948-2002 Netherlands Order of the Netherlands Lion Knight Grand Cross 1950-2002 Greece Order of St Olga and St Sophia 1st Class 1950-2002 Peru Order of the Sun of Peru Grand Cross 1960-2002 Tunisia Order of Independence 1961-2002 Honorary military appointments Military Force Unit Position Year British Army The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Colonel-in-chief 1927-1968 British Army The Hertfordshire Regiment, Honorary Colonel 1930-1961 British Army The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) Colonel-in-chief 1930-1959 British Army The London Scottish Royal Honorary Colonel 1935-2002 British Army The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Colonel-in-chief 1937-2002 File:Canadian Land Forces Command Badge.PNG Canadian Forces The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own Colonel-in-chief 1938-2002 Royal Navy Women's Royal Naval Service Commandant-in-chief unk.-2002 Royal Air Force Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force Air Chief Commandant unk.-2002 British Army 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars Colonel-in-chief 1947-1958 British Army The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Colonel-in-chief 1947-2002 British Army The Manchester Regiment Colonel-in-chief 1947-2002 File:Canadian Land Forces Command Badge.PNG Canadian Forces The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Colonel-in-chief 1947-2002 File:SANDF emblem.jpg South African Army The Witerwatersrand Rifles Colonel-in-chief 1947-1961 File:SANDF emblem.jpg South African Army The Cape Town Highlanders Colonel-in-Chief 1947-1961 British Army Women's Royal Army Corps Commandant-in-chief 1949-2002 Royal Air Force Women's Royal Air Force, Commandant-in-chief 1949-1994 British Army The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) Royal Honorary Colonel 1952-2002 British Army 9th Queen's Royal Lancers Colonel-in-chief 1953-2002 British Army Royal Army Medical Corps Colonel-in-chief 1953-2002 File:Canadian Land Forces Command Badge.PNG Canadian Army Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Colonel-in-chief 1953-1974 File:Australianarmy.gif Australian Army Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Colonel-in-chief 1953-2002 British South Africa Police Honorary Commissioner 1955-1965 File:SANDF emblem.jpg South African Army The Transvaal Scottish Colonel-in-chief 1956-1961 British Army The Inns of Court Regiment Colonel-in-chief 1957-1961 British Army 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) Colonel-in-chief 1958-2002 British Army University of London OTC Royal Honorary Colonel 1958-1989 British Army The King's Regiment Colonel-in-chief 1958-2002 British Army The Queen's Own Hussars Colonel-in-chief 1958-2002 British Army 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Colonel-in-chief 1959-2002 Royal Air Force RAF Central Flying School Commandant-in-chief 1960-2002 British Army 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) Colonel-in-chief 1960-2002 British Army The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Royal Honorary Colonel 1961-2002 British Army Inns of Court and City Yeomanry, Royal Honorary Colonel 1961-2002 British Army The Royal Anglian Regiment Colonel-in-chief 1964-2002 British Army The Royal Yeomanry Royal Honorary Colonel 1967-2002 British Army The Light Infantry Colonel-in-chief 1968-2002 File:Canadian Land Forces Command Badge.PNG Canadian Forces Canadian Forces Medical Service Colonel-in-chief 1977-2002 File:Nzarmy.gif New Zealand Army Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps Colonel-in-chief 1977-2002 British Army The Queen's Own Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) Colonel-in-chief 1993-2002 Royal Air Force Women, Royal Air Force Commandant-in-chief 1994-2002 British Army King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry) Royal Honorary Colonel 1996-1999 She was the only woman to serve as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Institutions named in her honour Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate Queen Mother Library, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Queen Elizabeth Elementary School, Vancouver, Canada Queen Elizabeth Wing, Stirling Royal Infirmary, Scotland Roads named in her honour The Queen Elizabeth Way is one of the major highways of Ontario, Canada; it was named during the royal visit of 1939 and later rebuilt as a freeway. It connects Toronto, Hamilton, St. Catharines, and Niagara Falls, and leads to the U.S. border at Buffalo, New York. See also List of titles and honours of Queen Elizabeth II List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh List of titles and honours of Charles, Prince of Wales