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29 ott 2023 · Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were born in 1919 and 1926, respectively, to John Herbert Bowes-Lyon. He was the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II , making his two daughters her first cousins. In 1941, the daughters were ousted from their family home in Scotland and sent to Surrey, spending the rest of their lives in the Victorian-era institution (pictured, in 1845).
15 nov 2020 · And it has largely remained so, even though Katherine died surprisingly recently, at the age of 87 in 2014. The pauper’s grave of Nerissa Bowes-Lyon at Redhill Cemetery, marked by a small ...
30 set 2023 · Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, severely disabled cousins of the late Queen , were cared for in an asylum and listed as dead from 1963, even though they were very much alive.
Bowes-Lyon died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 43, leaving his widow to care for their four young children. (Two of them, Nerissa and Katherine, were severely mentally disabled.) Three days later he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.
28 set 2022 · The critically-acclaimed fourth series of The Crown tells the tale of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's cousins who were packed off to the Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives in Redhill, Surrey, after being born with severe learning disabilities. Princess Margaret learns of how they have spent their whole lives in the ...
10 feb 2012 · After the First World War, Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, both cousins of the present queen, were born mentally disabled. Both spent their lives locked away in homes and hospitals, ignored by ...
