Queen Elizabeth II
Mourning one of her best friends
The Queen is in mourning.
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One of the Queen’s closest friends, Sir Timothy Colman, dies. He was her cousin’s husband, who also passed away in 2021.
Queen Elizabeth II (95) mourns one of her best friends. As the British media unanimously report, Sir Timothy Colman died on September 9th at the age of 91 – with his family in his mansion at Bixley Manor near Norwich.
Timothy Colman was the husband of Lady Mary Colman, a cousin of the Queen. The eldest daughter of Queen Mum’s brother (1900-2002) had only died on January 2, 2021 at the age of 88. Mary and Timothy Colman were frequent and welcome guests at the royal family mansion in Sandringham.
Lieutenant and businessman
Timothy Colman comes from a family known for making mustard and sauces (Colman’s Mustard). At 13 he went to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth during World War II. After the war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy until 1953. He was then successful as a businessman, from 1969 to 1996 as chairman of the Eastern Counties Newspaper Group. From 1978 to 2004 Colman was Lord Lieutenant in Norfolk.
In 1951, at the age of 19, Timothy Colman married Lady Mary Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mum’s niece. The couple had five children.