HM's maternal family

[devin22]

Wow this is very interesting. There is still so much more to learn about mental illness.

[editorathome]

HM talks about Bowes-Lyon uncle killed in WWI and never found

http://www.telegraph.co.u...d-in-First-World-War.html

[Fairy Queen]

I was shocked by the story in the margaret rhodes book about the servant (was it the cowman?) who died during a dinner party and they all thought it was hysterically funny?  And she said if the QM had been there she'd have thought it was hilarious as well.
what were they on?

[LadyBunion]

I was shocked by the story in the margaret rhodes book about the servant (was it the cowman?) who died during a dinner party and they all thought it was hysterically funny?  And she said if the QM had been there she'd have thought it was hilarious as well.
what were they on?

Yes the cowman died and the message came after the first course of the dinner party to ask if Dennis (Rhodes) could go and check  if he really had died - he decided to send the gardener to check instead. The gardener came back and said he had but they still needed Dennis to help lay him out....

[Duchessof757]

I was shocked by the story in the margaret rhodes book about the servant (was it the cowman?) who died during a dinner party and they all thought it was hysterically funny?  And she said if the QM had been there she'd have thought it was hilarious as well.
what were they on?

Yes the cowman died and the message came after the first course of the dinner party to ask if Dennis (Rhodes) could go and check  if he really had died - he decided to send the gardener to check instead. The gardener came back and said he had but they still needed Dennis to help lay him out....

They laughed?

Vile...

[Lady Adelaide]

The Queen's cousin, Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, the 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, has died at the age of 58

http://www.telegraph.co.u...d-Kinghorne-obituary.html

[CathyJane]

Sad. I wonder if any of the royals will attend the funeral.

[CyrilSebastian]

In 1767 John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore, married Mary Eleanor Bowes. The family name was changed to Bowes by Act of Parliament.   
The 10th Earl, John, changed the name to Lyon-Bowes. The 13th Earl, Claude, changed the Lyon-Bowes surname to Bowes-Lyon.

[Lady Adelaide]

Queen's cousin 'who had a taste for drinking and prostitutes' leaves a £40million fortune in his will after his death from cancer aged 58

Lord Strathmore, the Queen's first cousin once removed, died aged 58 last February after long cancer battle
Ex-Scots Guards captain was considered 'head of the Queen's Scottish family'
Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon's marriage in 1984 broke down after 20 years
In 2004, he was found with three call girls from a massage parlour at one of his stately homes; had a four-day 'sex marathon' with the prostitutes

http://www.dailymail.co.u...e-will.html#ixzz4kExI37AW

[CyrilSebastian]

Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne with her daughter Elizabeth circa 1923   
http://www.alamy.com/stoc...r-elizabeth-35114142.html

[CyrilSebastian]

Mrs. David Bowes-Lyon and Captain David Bowes-Lyon attended Ladies' Day of Royal Ascot on June 20, 2013.     
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/170925461

[CyrilSebastian]

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the Countess of Strathmore at Glamis Castle in 1923   
http://www.alamy.com/stoc...amis-castle-28818599.html

[CyrilSebastian]

Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore married Mary Pamela McCorquodale on April 10, 1956.   
Is Mary related to Neil McCorquodale who married Lady Sarah Spencer?

[Ghost]

Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore married Mary Pamela McCorquodale on April 10, 1956.    
Is Mary related to Neil McCorquodale who married Lady Sarah Spencer?

Apparently they are first cousins. And related to Raine Spencer!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCorquodale

[CyrilSebastian]

Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was the oldest brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. As a maternal uncle of the bride, he was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.