Why did Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother . . .?

Great Britain's Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) did not attend the coronation of Queen Victoria, nor did Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII) attend the coronation of George V. However, Queen Mary (wife of George V) attended the coronation of her son George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (wife of George VI) attended the coronation of her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. Why did Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother attend the coronations of their husbands' successors?
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Queen Mary felt it important to attend her son's coronation owing to the circumstances of his accession to the throne. She wanted to provide public moral support for his monarchy, not least because there had been people who had doubted that he was really suited to be King. By the time Elizabeth succeeded, the notion that a Queen Dowager should not attend the coronation of her husband's successor was considered old-fashioned and unnecessary.

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It was their time of the month perhaps?

HRH Princess Beatrice of York

Whenever you have some absence of a royal who should be at a wedding it is because he or she is gettin layd or has been detained in prison for some act of gross indecency or drunken debauch.

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