The Homecoming of the Duke and Duchess of York following their tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1927 (without the young Princess Elizabeth) - Royal group. (top row, left to right): King George V (1865-1936), Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) (1895-1952), Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855-1944); (front row, left tor right): Queen Mary (1867-1953), Elizabeth, Duchess of York holding Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-) and Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862-1938). The Duchess of York was, in her own words, "very miserable at leaving her baby".