Kufuor signs book of Condolence in Memory of British Queen Mother

President John Agyekum Kufuor today signed a book of condolence, which was opened at the British High Commission in Accra in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mother of Britain.

The Queen Mother, the 101-year-old mother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, died in her sleep on Saturday 30 March, with her daughter at her bedside at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, in London.

President Kufuor flanked by Mr Hackman Owusu Agyemang, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the British High Commissioner in Ghana, Dr Rod Pullen, wrote " Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, the Queen Mother lived a charmed and blessed life. She straddled epochs, generations and centuries."

"She epitomised the best of Great Britain and graciously influenced all British connections. She is immortalised in history and will be rightly remembered not only in Great Britain but also by all the friends of Britain".

She was buried on Tuesday at the Windsor Castle, when Britain came to a standstill for the funeral. The Queen Mother, the widow of King George VI and a rock of support for her eldest daughter Queen Elizabeth, 75, died after a period of declining health.