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Hace 5 días · After passing through several hands, the mansion, about the middle of the last century, became the property of the Countess of Strathmore, who afterwards married Captain A. R. Bowes, whose barbarity to her drew on him the execration of the country.
Hace 2 días · She married Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, on 16th July 1881, at Petersham, Surrey. The couple had ten amazing children together. When her husband Claude inherited the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904, she automatically became known as Cecilia Bowes, Lyon Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Hace 3 días · The bedchamber-woman poured the water out of the ewer upon the queen's hands. The bedchamber-woman pulled on the queen's gloves, when she could not do it herself. The page of the back-stairs was called in to put on the queen's shoes. When the queen dined in public, the page reached the glass to the bedchamber-woman, and she to the lady in waiting.
Hace 4 días · A formidable character who became the matriarch of the Royal Family, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26 May 1867 in the same room where Queen Victoria (who was a distant cousin) had been born 40 years prior. In 1891, aged 24, Mary was betrothed to her second cousin once removed, Prince Albert, eldest son of the ...
Hace 5 días · The blood lines of the British royal family can be traced back to the 9th Century or 1,209 years and 37 generations. Along with each inception comes a lineage of royal titles, including the Baron ...
Hace 1 día · Romely-hall in this parish, belonged, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the family of Wood, afterwards to that of Routh, of whom it was pur chased by Mr. Wright, of Sheffield. The nephew of the latter bequeathed it, in 1788, to Daniel Thomas Hill, Esq. It is now the property and re sidence of the Reverend Thomas Hill.
Hace 4 días · Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, first came across Albert, Duke of York, the second son of George V, in 1920. Immediately smitten, the Duke proposed to her in 1921, although she turned him down, owing to her being "afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to".
