Fury over book's claim that Queen Mother and her brother were born to family's French cook

Extraordinary claims that the Queen Mother’s real mother was her family’s French cook are to be made in a sensational new book.


Aristocratic author Lady Colin Campbell says the domestic help may have been ‘an early version of surrogacy’ for both Elizabeth Bowes Lyon and her younger brother David.


The cook, an ‘attractive and pleasant Frenchwoman’ called Marguerite Rodiere, gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth because her own mother Cecilia, who already had eight children, was unable to have any more.       Read More