Chapter Eleven Titles, styles, honours and arms

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Titles and styles

Main article: List of titles and honours of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

4 August 1900 - 16 February 1904: The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon16 February 1904 - 26 April 1923: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon26 April 1923 - 11 December 1936: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York11 December 1936 - 6 February 1952: Her Majesty The Queen6 February 1952 - 30 March 2002: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Arms

Queen Elizabeth's coat of arms was the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (in either the English or the Scottish version) impaled with the arms of her father, the Earl of Strathmore; the latter being: 1st and 4th quarters, Argent, a lion rampant Azure, armed and langued Gules, within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second (Lyon); 2nd and 3rd quarters, Ermine, three bows stringed paleways proper (Bowes).[168] The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown, and supported by the crowned lion of England and a lion rampant perfess Or and Gules.

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