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Why did we call her the Queen – not Queen’s – Mother?

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Why did we call her the Queen – not Queen’s – Mother?
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A great deal of space has been taken up on the internet over recent decades by people writing in to ask why the mother of the late Queen Elizabeth II was known as the Queen Mother and not the Queen’s Mother. 

I waded through more than 40 versions of this question, with a similar number of responses, as posted on the online platform Quora, before I eventually gave up. Not one of the answers I read on the site was correct, although of course I cannot rule out the possibility that if I had had the

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