Britain's Queen Mother--which is to say, the mother of the present monarch--died in 2002 at the age of 101.(The Week)(Brief article)

Britain's Queen Mother--which is to say, the mother of the present monarch--died in 2002 at the age of 101, having survived two world wars, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the disdain of Eleanor Roosevelt (who called her "a little self-consciously regal"), the death of her husband, the fiasco of her grandson's marriage to Princess Diana, and several decades' steady consumption of Gordon's gin with Dubonnet. Britain's Queen Mother--which is to say, the mother of the present monarch--died in 2002 at the age of 101, having survived two world wars, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the disdain of Eleanor Roosevelt (who called her "a little self-consciously regal"), the death of her husband, the fiasco of her grandson's marriage to Princess Diana, and several decades' steady consumption of Gordon's gin with Dubonnet. Now British radio journalist Edward ...