![An extract from Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s diary dated Tuesday 16 January 1923:<br /><br />‘Woke at 8.30. The papers announce my engagement this morning.<br />Great headlines & lots of rot! Up by 11. Telegrams poured in all day, letters & reporters tumbling over each other. Saw Aunt Maudie. Bertie came to lunch. There were hundreds of photographers & a crowd when we came out. Awful! Went to Buckingham Palace & chose the ring. The Prince of Wales came in for some time, & sent for some rings from Boucheron! Had tea with Bertie - then he brought me home. More telegrams, & saw two Scotch reporters & [Victor] Gordon-Lennox. Quite exhausted! Bertie dined - Father came up. Talked till 12 - 8 were photographed - not a success! Bed 1.’<br /><br />Cited The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: Counting One’s Blessings, Duchess of York pg 108 Pan MacMillan (London 2013)<br /><br />#queenelizabeth #queenelizabeththequeenmother #thequeenmother #elizabethboweslyon #ladyelizabethboweslyon #boweslyon #duchessofyork #queenelizabethii #elizabethii #elizabethofyork #princesselizabethofyork #princesselizabeth #kinggeorgevi #georgevi #princealbert #dukeofyork #kinggeorge #princessmargaret #princessmargaretrose #princessmargaretrosewindsor #margaretrose #margaretrosewindsor #elizabethalexandramary #elizabethalexandramarywindsor #elizabethwindsor #princessmargaretcountessofsnowdon #countessofsnowdon #princeofwales #princeedward #kingedwardviii](/img/aHR0cHM6Ly9zY29udGVudC5jZG5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tL3YvdDUxLjI5MzUwLTE1LzQzMzY4NTU2Ml8zODcyNDQwNjA3NjM4MDdfNDIzODQ1MTkzNjQ5NDAwNjY1X24uanBnP3N0cD1kc3QtanBnX2UzNSZfbmNfaHQ9c2NvbnRlbnQuY2RuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbSZfbmNfY2F0PTExMSZfbmNfb2hjPV9jVnRIUW5oRUJVUTdrTnZnR3o5N2xRJmVkbT1BUHMxN0NVQkFBQUEmY2NiPTctNSZvaD0wMF9BWUF1aGZydWhSaDdaNzBIVmZRblJwRU41TG5Pb19DeU1lZkN6c2RwWlZMb2JBJm9lPTY2NDY3QzkzJl9uY19zaWQ9MTBkMTNi.jpg)
An extract from Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s diary dated Tuesday 16 January 1923:
‘Woke at 8.30. The papers announce my engagement this morning.
Great headlines & lots of rot! Up by 11. Telegrams poured in all day, letters & reporters tumbling over each other. Saw Aunt Maudie. Bertie came to lunch. There were hundreds of photographers & a crowd when we came out. Awful! Went to Buckingham Palace & chose the ring. The Prince of Wales came in for some time, & sent for some rings from Boucheron! Had tea with Bertie - then he brought me home. More telegrams, & saw two Scotch reporters & [Victor] Gordon-Lennox. Quite exhausted! Bertie dined - Father came up. Talked till 12 - 8 were photographed - not a success! Bed 1.’
Cited The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: Counting One’s Blessings, Duchess of York pg 108 Pan MacMillan (London 2013)
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