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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was concurrently the last Empress of India until the British Raj was dissolved. Few members of the British monarchy have won the hearts of a nation so completely as H,M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The Royal Mint issued silver Proof coins from the UK and throughout the Commonwealth.