When did the Queen Mother die?

On March 30, 2002, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at the Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, with Queen Elizabeth II at her bedside.

She had been suffering from a cold for the previous four months.

Her younger daughter, Princess Margaret, had passed away seven weeks earlier.

At 101 years and 238 days old, she was the longest-living member of the royal family in British history.

An estimated 200,000 people over three days filed past as she lay in state in Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster.

On the day of her funeral, April 9, 2002, the Governor General of Canada issued a proclamation asking Canadians to honour her memory, while in Australia, the Governor-General read the lesson at a memorial service held in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney.

In London, more than a million people filled the area outside Westminster Abbey and along the 23-mile route from central London to her final resting place beside her husband and younger daughter in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

At her request, after her funeral, the wreath that had lain atop her coffin was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, in a gesture that echoed her wedding-day tribute 79 years before.

Tragically, her daughter Queen Elizabeth II also passed away on September 8, 2022, in her home in Balmoral.