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In December 2001, aged 101, the Queen Mother had a fall in which she fractured her pelvis.

Even so, she insisted on standing for the National Anthem during the memorial service for her husband on 6 February the following year.

Just three days later, her second daughter Princess Margaret died.

On 13 February 2002, the Queen Mother fell and cut her arm at Sandringham House.

Despite this fall, she was still determined to attend Margaret's funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two days later on Friday of that week.

The Queen and the rest of the royal family were greatly concerned about the journey the Queen Mother would face to get from Norfolk to Windsor.

Nevertheless, she made the journey and insisted that she be shielded from the press, so that no photographs of her in a wheelchair could be taken.