Risultati di ricerca
Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon ( Angus, 30 agosto 1883 – Inveresk, 8 febbraio 1961) è stata una nobildonna britannica, era la zia materna e madrina di Elisabetta II . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Matrimonio. 3 Morte. 4 Ascendenza. 5 Onorificenze. 6 Altri progetti. Biografia.
- Inveresk, Scozia, 8 febbraio 1961
Mary Frances Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone GCVO (née Bowes-Lyon; 30 August 1883 – 8 February 1961), was a British aristocrat. She was an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom later The Queen Mother, and a maternal aunt and godmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Bowes-Lyon family descends from George Bowes of Gibside and Streatlam Castle (1701–1760), a County Durham landowner and politician, through John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon. Following the marriage in 1767 of the 9th Earl ( John Lyon) to rich heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family name was changed to ...
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (24 February 1749 – 28 April 1800) was a notable member of the British aristocracy during the Georgian period in the 18th century. Referred to by some as "The Unhappy Countess", she was a prominent heiress, who inherited a vast fortune.
5 dic 2018 · The Lyon family are perhaps most notable for being the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II, through her mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Mary Elizabeth’s ‘tiresome’ family also included one of the most complicated characters of the eighteenth century – Mary Eleanor Bowes. Mary Eleanor was Mary Elizabeth’s sister-in-law.
5 gen 2021 · Born Mary Bowes-Lyon, Lady Mary was the daughter of Captain Michael Bowes-Lyon (one of the Queen Mother’s nine siblings) and his wife, Elizabeth Margaret Cator. One of four children, her eldest brother was Fergus Michael Bowes-Lyon, the 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon è stata una nobildonna britannica, era la zia materna e madrina di Elisabetta II.