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The Queen Mother was much admired and loved by the people of Sri Lanka for her indomitable spirit, charm and dignity, President Chandrika Kumaratunga said in a message of condolence on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. “I have had the privilege of meeting Her Majesty a few years ago and remember with great fondness the long conversations I had with her,” the President said in her message to Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, who died last Saturday aged 101, was born in 1900, in the final years of the Victorian era. Elizabeth married Albert, better known as Bertie, Duke of York and second son of King George V in 1923. In 1926 their first daughter, also called Elizabeth was born. Their second, Margaret, arrived four years later. In 2000 the Queen Mother celebrated her centenary with a series of events in her honour, with much pomp and in relatively good health. Britain's Queen Mother will be interred beside her late husband after a full ceremonial funeral at London's historic Westminster Abbey. The funeral will take place on April 9. A period of family mourning will follow before the coffin is moved to Westminster Hall in central London, so the public can pay their respects. The Queen Mother will be only the second British royal consort in modern times to lie in state. Her mother-in-law Queen Mary, who died in April 1953, was the first.
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