List of titles and honours of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother explained

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

• 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:

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	192330 March 2002[1]
British Empire and Commonwealth	8 March 19236 June 1924			LGStJ
British Empire and Commonwealth	6 June 192412 June 1926	Lady of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem		LJStJ
British Empire and Commonwealth	12 June 192630 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem		GCStJ
United Kingdom	8 July 192730 March 2002			GBE
	193130 March 2002			CI
United Kingdom	14 December 193630 March 2002			LG
British Empire and Commonwealth	1 February 193730 March 2002			GCVO
United Kingdom	193730 March 2002[2]
United Kingdom	11 May 193730 March 2002			LT
United Kingdom	195230 March 2002
Canada	196630 March 2002			OD[3] [4]
United Kingdom	197830 March 2002[5]
New Zealand	199030 March 2002			ONZ
Canada	200030 March 2002			CC

Decorations and medals!Country!Date!Decoration!Ribbon!Post-nominal letters

British Empire and Commonwealth	1936			RRC
British Empire and Commonwealth	11 May 1937
British Empire and Commonwealth	1935
British Empire and Commonwealth	1937
British Empire and Commonwealth	1953
British Empire and Commonwealth	1977
British Empire and Commonwealth	2002
Canada	1951			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

	192330 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Saint Sava
	192817 July 1973	Member First Class of the Order of the Supreme Sun
Japan	193730 March 2002	Dame Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown
France	July 193830 March 2002	Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour
	193830 December 1947	Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Romania
Nepal	194830 March 2002	Member Grand Cross of the Order of Ojaswi Rajanya
Netherlands	195030 March 2002	Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands
		Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St Olga and St Sophia		MSOS
Peru	196030 March 2002	Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun
Tunisia	196130 March 2002

Decorations!Country!Date!Decoration!Ribbon

France	1945
Norway	1945

Honorary military positions

Australia

• 195330 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

Canada

• 193830 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
• 194730 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^[6]
• 197730 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces Medical Service

New Zealand

• 193930 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment^[7]
• 197730 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^[8]

United Kingdom

• 1927–1968: Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• 1930–1961: Honorary Colonel the Hertfordshire Regiment
• 193530 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel The London Scottish
• 1937–1959: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
• 193730 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
• 194230 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Army Medical Corps
• 1947–1958: Colonel-in-Chief of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars
• 194730 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
• 194730 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Manchester Regiment
• 194930 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Army Corps
• 1952–1961: Royal Honorary Colonel of the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
• 1953September 1960: Colonel-in-Chief of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers^[9]
• 1957–1961: Colonel-in-Chief of the Inns of Court Regiment
• 195830 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
• 195830 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Regiment
• 195830 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Own Hussars
• 195930 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
• 196030 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)^[9]
• 196130 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
• 196130 March 2002: Royal Honorary Colonel of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry
• 196430 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Anglian Regiment
• 196730 March 2002: Honorary Colonel of the Royal Yeomanry
• 1967–1968: Honorary Colonel of The London Yeomanry and Territorials
• 196830 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Light Infantry
• 199330 March 2002: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
• 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
• 196030 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief of the RAF Central Flying School
• 199430 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief, Women, Royal Air Force
• unk.30 March 2002: Air Chief Commandant of the Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force
• 1949–1957 and 199930 March 2002: Honorary Air Commodore of No. 600 Squadron RAF
• unk.11 January 1994: Commandant-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Naval Service
• 11 January 199430 March 2002: Commandant-in-Chief for Women in the Royal Navy

Non-national titles and honours

Freedom of the City

• 1927: Glasgow^[10]
• 29 August 1928: Stirling^[11]
• 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^[12]
• 1954: Dundee – Also on Behalf of the Black Watch
• 1956: Forfar – Also on Behalf of the Black Watch^{[13] [14]}
• 1956: Musselburgh
• 1956: Wick
• 25 May 1959: Aberdeen^[15]
• 13 April 1961: St Albans^[16]
• 1980: Windsor and Maidenhead^[17]
• 1981: Windsor
• 1981: Maidenhead
• 1990: Caithness
• 1954: Ottawa^[18]
• 2000: Volgograd (Honorary Citizen)^[19]

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Memberships and fellowships

Country	Date	Organisation	Position
	December 19382002	Women's Royal Voluntary Service[21]	President
	1956–2002		Honorary Fellow (FRS)
			Honorary Fellow (FRSE)
			Honorary Fellow
	1944–2002	Honourable Society of the Middle Temple[22]	Honorary Bencher
			Honorary Fellow
			Patron
		Royal Air Force Club	Honorary Life Member
			Patron
			President Emerita
			Patron
		Royal British Legion (Women's Section)	President
		Royal British Legion Scotland (Women's Section)	Grand President
			Patron
			Honorary Member
			Patron
			Lady Patron
			Royal Fellow (FSA)
			Patron
		Ontario Jockey Club
	28 June 197430 March 2002	Law Society of Upper Canada[23]	Honorary Bencher
British Empire and Commonwealth	1983–2002	Victoria Cross and George Cross Association[24]	President
			Patron

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Scholastic

Chancellor, president, visitor, governor, and fellowships!Country!Date!Institution!Position

	1953–1993		President
	1955–1980		Chancellor
	1967–1977
	1981–2002		Patron
			Honorary Fellow
	1974–2002		Honorary Bencher[26]

Honorary degrees!Country!Date!Institution!Degree

	1924		Doctor of Laws (LLD)
	1929
	1932	University of Glasgow[27]
	1937
	1947
	1948	University of Cambridge[28]
	1951
	1954	University of Leeds[29]
	1958
	1966
	1967	Dalhousie University[30]
	1981
	1983
	1931		Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
	1967
	1984
	1966		Doctor of Music (DMus)
	5 December 1973	Royal College of Music[31] [32]
	1994
	1937		Doctor of Letters (DLitt)
	1965
	1991		Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

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Honorific eponyms

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Vickers. Hugo. Royal Orders. 1994. Boxtree. 9781852835101. 147.
2. Web site: Royal Family Orders. 13 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20130307173343/https://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/RoyalFamilyOrders.aspx. 7 March 2013. Royal Household. Official website of the British monarchy.
3. News: This Day In History: November 21, 1966 . John Mackie . The Vancouver Sun . Vancouver, British Columbia . 21 November 2012 . A2 . 26 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180319152607/http://www.vancouversun.com/This+History+November+1966/7587673/story.html . 19 March 2018 . dead .
4. News: People Make News - High Honour . The Montreal Gazette . Montreal, Quebec . 27 July 1968 . 5 .
5. News: O'Neill. Sean. Cinque ports mourn the loss of a cherished Lord Warden. 14 September 2015. The Telegraph. 3 Apr 2002.
6. Web site: Our Late Colonel in Chief Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Department of National Defence. 7 November 2008.
7. Book: The Clansman. New Zealand Scottish Territorial Regimental Association. Wellington. 1954. 3.
8. Book: Murphy, Phillip . Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Postwar Commonwealth . 105–106 . Oxford University Press . 2013 . 978-0199214235.
9. 1666826486341328902. RoyalFamily. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother became Colonel of the 9th/12th Lancers upon its formation in 1960, having been Colonel of 9L since 1953..
10. Web site: Freedom of the City Recipients - Glasgow City Council . www.glasgow.gov.uk . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150623122008/http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/?articleid=3564 . 23 June 2015 . dead.
11. Web site: Duke And Duchess Of York (1928). https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/1CKOwaIZxgc . 2021-12-21 . live. British Pathé. 23 August 2021. YouTube.
12. Web site: History of King's Lynn Town Hall. 27 May 2021. King's Lynn Town Hall.
13. Web site: QUEEN MOTHER IN FORFAR. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Kczr4AjI270 . 2021-12-21 . live. 21 July 2015. British Movietone . YouTube.
14. Web site: Queen Mother's Visit To Forfar To Receive Freedom (1956). https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/rtfLOOeW9vo . 2021-12-21 . live. 13 April 2014. British Pathé . YouTube.
15. Web site: Evening Times - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
16. Web site: St. Albans, England. 13th April, 1961. The Queen Mother inspecting the guard of honour of the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire regiment TA, in the market square at St. Albans, where she received the freedom of the city.. Getty Images. 15 January 2008 . 27 May 2021.
17. Web site: Honorary Freemen | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. www.rbwm.gov.uk.
18. Web site: Key to the City | City of Ottawa . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160115031249/http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/your-city-government/policies-and-administrative-structure/key-city . 15 January 2016 . 17 December 2015.
19. Web site: World honours Queen Mother. BBC. 9 April 2002. 18 April 2021.
20. Web site: Memorial Sites > the Queen Mother > Life > Honorary Degrees & Freedoms > Freedoms . 24 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174945/http://royalmirror.coraider.com/output/page1059.html . 2 April 2015 .
21. Web site: Our Patron | About Us | Royal Voluntary Service . www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk.
22. News: 7 July 2009 . Prince William becomes honorary barrister . 27 June 2019 . The Daily Telegraph . The Prince is the sixth member of the Royal Family to be called to the Bench as a Royal Bencher and is following in the footsteps of the Queen Mother, called in 1944, and his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, called in 1988..
23. Web site: Queen Mother named Honourary Bencher Thirty Years Ago . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110808174819/http://www.lsuc.on.ca/with.aspx?id=376 . 8 August 2011 . Law Society of Ontario.
24. Web site: Victoria Cross and George Cross . The VC and GC Association.
25. Web site: Memorial Sites > the Queen Mother > Life > Patronages . 24 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180010/http://royalmirror.coraider.com/output/Page1066.html . 2 April 2015 .
26. Web site: Queen Mother named Honourary Bencher - The Law Society of Upper Canada. www.lsuc.on.ca.
27. Web site: The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, to receive honorary degree. University of Glasgow. 8 March 2001. 23 November 2024.
28. Web site: Selected Honorands. University of Cambridge. 17 November 2024.
29. Web site: Pathé . British . Queen Mother Receives Degree At Leeds . www.britishpathe.com.
30. Web site: 1892 - 1999 Honorary Degree Recipients - Convocation - Dalhousie University . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130719111333/http://www.dal.ca/academics/convocation/ceremonies/honorary_degree_recipients/hon_degree_1892_1999.html . 19 July 2013 . 14 January 2022 . www.dal.ca.
31. Web site: Limited . Alamy . Stock Photo - Royalty - Queen Mother Royal College of Music Honorary Degree - South Kensington, London . Alamy.
32. Web site: HONORARY DOCTORATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC . 2021-04-17 . www.rcm.ac.uk.
33. Web site: Memorial Sites > the Queen Mother > Life > Honorary degrees and freedoms > Honorary degrees . 23 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402201238/http://royalmirror.coraider.com/output/Page1058.html . 2 April 2015 .