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21 de nov. de 2020 · Locked in a mental institution and declared legally dead, Queen Elizabeth's developmentally disabled cousins drew nationwide support (and nationwide scandal) when their existence came to...
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22 de sept. de 2022 · According to Hello magazine, the late Queen’s maternal cousin, John Bowes-Lyon, passed away on September 18, 2022, ten days after the 96-year-old monarch died on September 8, 2022. The news...
12 de feb. de 2022 · Katherine continued to live on until 2014 and died aged 86. In 1987, an article from The Sun broke the news with the headline: 'QUEEN’S COUSIN LOCKED IN MADHOUSE.' The piece contained details about how the two girls were publicly declared dead and rarely received any visitors from their relatives.
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- Who Were The Queen’s Cousins?
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- How Does The Crown Portray The Queen’s Cousins?
Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the respective third and fifth daughters of John and Fenella Bowes-Lyon. John was the elder brother of Queen Elizabeth, who became known as the Queen Mother. They were born with severe learning difficulties at a time when societal attitudes towards the disabled were less progressive than now. The pair did not l...
In 1941, when Nerissa was 22-years-old and Katherine was 15, their family had them admitted to an institution, the Royal Earlswood Hospital, in Redhill, Surrey. They had, to all intents and purposes, been abandoned. There is no record of either woman ever receiving a family visit, according to a Channel 4 documentary into the sisters in 2011. Earls...
Walker’s episode on the sisters is unusually damning of the Royal Family, though it is unclear how much of it is fiction. The Crown suggests that by the 1980s, Nerissa and Katherine had been all but forgotten. Princess Margaret stumbles across the fact of their existence entirely accidentally, via her own therapist, and confronts the Queen Mother. ...
15 de nov. de 2020 · Nerissa and Katherine, whom the family declared dead in 1940, were severely disabled. So were three of the Queen Mother’s cousins: Rosemary, Etheldreda, and Ideona, who were admitted to...
18 de nov. de 2020 · She is depicted discovering her cousins had falsely been described as dead when in... Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret in Season Four of 'The Crown' which aired on Netflix on Sunday ...
19 de sept. de 2022 · Queen Elizabeth II 's cousins the Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra and the Duke of Gloucester will all attend Her Majesty's state funeral at Westminster Abbey. Her...
