List of titles and honours of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother received numerous appointments, including to orders, decorations and medals, during and after her time as consort to King George VI. Each is listed below; where two dates are shown, the first indicates the date of receiving the award or title, and the second indicates the date of its loss or renunciation:

Titles and styles

Styles of Queen Elizabeth
Reference style	Her Majesty
Spoken style	Your Majesty

• 1900–1904: The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
• 1904–1923: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
• 1923–1936: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York
• 1936–1952: Her Majesty The Queen
• 1952–2002: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Her British honours were read out at her funeral, held in the United Kingdom, by Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, as follows:

Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory life unto His Divine Mercy the late Most High, Most Mighty and Most Excellent Princess Elizabeth, Queen Dowager and Queen Mother, Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Lady of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Grand Master and Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order upon whom had been conferred the Royal Victorian Chain, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Relict of His Majesty King George the Sixth and Mother of Her Most Excellent Majesty Elizabeth The Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, whom may God preserve and bless with long life, health and honour and all worldly happiness. ^[1]

In the memorial service held in Canada, her Canadian honours, the Canadian Forces' Decoration and Order of Canada, were read out.

British Commonwealth and Commonwealth of Nations honours

Appointments, including honours

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominal letters
United Kingdom	1923 –30 March 2002 [2]	Member of the Royal Family Order of George V
British Empire and Commonwealth	8 March 1923 –6 June 1924	Lady of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem		LGStJ [3]
British Empire and Commonwealth	6 June 1924 –12 June 1926	Lady of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem		LJStJ [4]
British Empire and Commonwealth	12 June 1926 –30 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem		GCStJ [5]
United Kingdom	8 July 1927 –30 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire		GBE [6]
British India	1931 –30 March 2002	Member of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India		CI
United Kingdom	14 December 1936 –30 March 2002	Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter		LG [7]
British Empire and Commonwealth	1 February 1937 –30 March 2002	Grand Master and Principal Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order		GCVO [8]
United Kingdom	1937 –30 March 2002 [9]	Member of the Royal Family Order of George VI
United Kingdom	11 May 1937 –30 March 2002	Extra Lady of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle		LT [10]
United Kingdom	1952 –30 March 2002 [9]	Member of the Royal Family Order of Elizabeth II
Canada	1966 –30 March 2002	Member of the Order of the Dogwood		OD [11] [12]
United Kingdom	1978 –30 March 2002 [13] [14]	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
New Zealand	1990 –30 March 2002	Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand		ONZ
Canada	2000 –30 March 2002	Extraordinary Companion of the Order of Canada		CC

Decorations and medals

Country	Date	Decoration	Ribbon	Post-nominal letters
British Empire and Commonwealth	1936	Member of the Royal Red Cross		RRC
British Empire and Commonwealth	11 May 1937 [10]	Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
British Empire and Commonwealth	1935	Recipient of the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
British Empire and Commonwealth	1937	Recipient of the King George VI Coronation Medal
British Empire and Commonwealth	1953	Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
British Empire and Commonwealth	1977	Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
British Empire and Commonwealth	2002	Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Canada	1951	Recipient of the Canadian Forces' Decoration and Five Bars		CD

Awards

Country	Date	Award
United Kingdom	1961	Recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour

Foreign honours

Appointments

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominal letters
Yugoslavia	1923 –30 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Saint Sava
Afghanistan	1928 –17 July 1973	Member First Class of the Order of the Supreme Sun
Japan	1937 –30 March 2002	Dame Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown
France	July 1938 [15]  –30 March 2002	Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour
Romania	1938 –30 December 1947	Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Romania
Nepal	1948 –30 March 2002	Member Grand Cross of the Order of Ojaswi Rajanya
Netherlands	1950 –30 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands
Greece		Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St Olga and St Sophia		MSOS
Peru	1960 –30 March 2002	Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun
Tunisia	1961 –30 March 2002	Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence

Decorations

Country	Date	Decoration	Ribbon
France	1945	Recipient of the Red Cross Medal
Norway	1945	Recipient of the Norwegian War Cross

Honorary military positions

Australia

• 1953 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

Canada

• 1938 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
• 1947 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
• 1953–1974: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps ^[16]
• 1977 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces Medical Service ^[17]

New Zealand

• 1939 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment ^[18]
• 1977 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps

South Africa

• 1947–1961: Colonel-in-Chief of the Witwatersrand Rifles
• 1947–1961: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Own Cape Town Highlanders
• 1956–1961: Colonel-in-Chief of the Transvaal Scottish

Southern Rhodesia

• 1955–1965: Honorary Commissioner of the British South Africa Police

Rhodesia

1965–1970: Honorary Commissioner of the British South Africa Police ^[19]

United Kingdom

• 1927–1968: Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ^[20]
• 1930–1961: Honorary Colonel the Hertfordshire Regiment
• 1935 –30 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel The London Scottish ^[21]
• 1937–1959: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) ^[22]
• 1937 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) ^[22]
• 1942 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Army Medical Corps
• 1947–1958: Colonel-in-Chief of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars
• 1947 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
• 1947 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Manchester Regiment ^[23]
• 1949 –30 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Army Corps ^[24]
• 1952–1961: Royal Honorary Colonel of the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
• 1953 –September 1960: Colonel-in-Chief of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers ^[25]
• 1957–1961: Colonel-in-Chief of the Inns of Court Regiment ^[26]
• 1958 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
• 1958–1989: Royal Honorary Colonel of the University of London OTC ^[27]
• 1958 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Regiment ^[28]
• 1958 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Own Hussars ^[29]
• 1959 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ^[30]
• 1960 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) ^[25]
• 1961 –30 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
• 1961 –30 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry
• 1964 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Anglian Regiment ^[31]
• 1967 –30 March 2002: Honorary Colonel of the Royal Yeomanry ^[32]
• 1967–1968: Honorary Colonel of The London Yeomanry and Territorials ^[32]
• 1968 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Light Infantry ^[33]
• 1993 –30 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) ^[34]
• 1996–1999: Royal Honorary Colonel of the King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry)
• 1949–1994: Commandant-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Air Force ^[35]
• 1960 –30 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief of the RAF Central Flying School ^[36]
• 1994 –30 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief, Women, Royal Air Force ^[35]
• unk. –30 March 2002: Air Chief Commandant of the Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force
• 1949–1957 and 1999 –30 March 2002: Honorary Air Commodore of No. 600 Squadron RAF
• unk. –11 January 1994: Commandant-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Naval Service ^[37]
• 11 January 1994 –30 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief for Women in the Royal Navy ^[37]

Non-national titles and honours

Freedom of the City

• 1927: Glasgow ^[38]
• 29 August 1928: Stirling ^[39]
• 1928: Dunfermline
• 1935: Perth
• 1936: Edinburgh
• 1953: Inverness – Joint Freedom with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• 1953: London
• 26 July 1954: King's Lynn and West Norfolk ^[40]
• 1954: Dundee – Also on Behalf of the Black Watch
• 1956: Forfar – Also on Behalf of the Black Watch ^{[41] [42]}
• 1956: Musselburgh
• 1956: Wick
• 25 May 1959: Aberdeen ^[43]
• 13 April 1961: St Albans ^[44]
• 1980: Windsor and Maidenhead ^[45]
• 1981: Windsor
• 1981: Maidenhead
• 1990: Caithness
• 1954: Ottawa ^[46]
• 2000: Volgograd (Honorary Citizen) ^[47]

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Memberships and fellowships

Country	Date	Organisation	Position
United Kingdom	December 1938 –2002	Women's Royal Voluntary Service [49]	President
	1956–2002	Royal Society	Honorary Fellow (FRS)
		Royal Society of Edinburgh	Honorary Fellow (FRSE)
		London School of Economics	Honorary Fellow
	1944–2002	Honourable Society of the Middle Temple [50]	Honorary Bencher
		Royal College of Physicians	Honorary Fellow
		Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
		Royal College of Surgeons of England	Patron
		Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
		Royal Academy of Music
		Marie Curie Memorial Foundation
		Royal Air Force Club	Honorary Life Member
		Royal College of Midwives	Patron
		Royal College of Music	President Emerita
		Royal College of Nursing	Patron
		Royal College of Surgeons of England
		Royal Commonwealth Society
		Royal British Legion (Women's Section)	President
		Royal British Legion Scotland (Women's Section)	Grand President
		Royal School of Church Music	Patron
		Royal Society of Musicians
		Royal Automobile Club	Honorary Member
		Royal Household Cricket Club	Patron
		Royal School of Needlework
		Royal Horticultural Society
		Royal National Lifeboat Institution
		Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
		Royal Scottish Society of Arts
		Scottish National Institution for the War Blinded
		Special Forces Club
		Cavalry and Guards Club	Lady Patron
		Society of Antiquaries of London	Royal Fellow (FSA)
Canada		Victorian Order of Nurses	Patron
		Ontario Jockey Club
	28 June 1974 –30 March 2002	Law Society of Upper Canada [51]	Honorary Bencher
British Empire and Commonwealth	1983–2002	Victoria Cross and George Cross Association [52]	President
		Gallantry Medallists' League	Patron

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Scholastic

Chancellor, president, visitor, governor, and fellowships

Country	Date	Institution	Position
United Kingdom	1953–1993	Royal College of Music	President
	1955–1980	University of London	Chancellor
	1967–1977	University of Dundee
	1981–2002	Royal Holloway College	Patron
		London School of Economics	Honorary Fellow
Canada	1974–2002	Law Society of Upper Canada	Honorary Bencher [54]

Honorary degrees

Country	Date	Institution	Degree
United Kingdom	1924	Queen's University Belfast	Doctor of Laws (LLD)
	1929	University of St. Andrews
	1932	University of Glasgow [55]
	1937	University of Edinburgh
South Africa	1947	University of Cape Town
United Kingdom	1948	University of Cambridge [56]
	1951	Victoria University of Manchester
	1954	University of Leeds [57]
United States		Columbia University
Australia	1958	University of Melbourne
New Zealand	1966	University of Auckland
Canada	1967	Dalhousie University [58]
Zimbabwe	1981	University of Zimbabwe
United Kingdom	1983	University of Aberdeen
	1931	University of Oxford	Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
	1967	University of Dundee
	1984	Newcastle University
	1966	University of Sheffield	Doctor of Music (DMus)
	5 December 1973	Royal College of Music [59] [60]
	1994	Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama
	1937	University of London	Doctor of Letters (DLitt)
Jamaica	1965	University of the West Indies
United Kingdom		University of Keele
	1991	Royal Veterinary College	Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

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Honorific eponyms

Further information: Royal eponyms in Canada

Structures

Buildings

• United Kingdom
  • England: Bowes-Lyon Youth Centre, Stevenage
  • England: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
  • England: Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin
  • England: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn
  • England: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate
  • England: Lyon Court, part of Queens' College, Cambridge.
  • Scotland: Queen Mother Building, University of Dundee, Dundee
  • Scotland: Queen Mother Library, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen
  • Scotland: Queen Elizabeth Wing, Stirling Royal Infirmary, Stirling

Schools

• Canada:
  • Nova Scotia: Queen Elizabeth High School, Halifax
• United Kingdom
  • Wales: Queen Elizabeth High School, Carmarthen
  • England: Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford
• Zimbabwe: Queen Elizabeth School, Harare

Ships

• United Kingdom: RMS Queen Elizabeth

See also

• List of titles and honours of George VI
• List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II
• List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• List of titles and honours of Charles III
• List of titles and honours of Queen Camilla
• List of titles and honours of William, Prince of Wales
• List of titles and honours of Catherine, Princess of Wales
• List of titles and honours of Anne, Princess Royal
• List of titles and honours of George V
• List of titles and honours of Mary of Teck
• List of titles and honours of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• List of honours of the British royal family by country

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