Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, styled Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, also Elizabeth, Duchess of York, (4 August 1900 - 30 March 2002), was the wife of King George VI of Britain. She married Prince Albert, Duke of York in 1923 after turning down repeated marriage proposals. In 1936 she unexpectedly found her husband on the throne following the abdication of his elder brother King Edward VIII. She was Queen-Consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions until her husband's death in 1952, and was also the final Empress-Consort of India until that nation became a republic in 1947. From 1952 until her death, she was Queen Mother during the first fifty years of her elder daughter's long reign. She died of a cold on 30 March 2002 when she was 101 years old.