Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Make sure that the file is a photo. The hospital was designed by William Bonython Moffat and built by John Jay, with Prince Albert taking a special interest and laying its foundation stone in June 1853, opening it two years later. The two sisters, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, were the daughters of The Honorable John Bowes-Lyon (1886 1930), the second son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore (1855 1944), and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900 2002), and his wife Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862 1938). He also commented on the absence of any attempt to find out why the sisters had been placed in care in 1941, writing "this was the one part of the story that was genuinely still a mystery. When Nerissa died in 1986, none of her family attended the funeral. When Katherine Bowes-Lyon died, aged 87, on February 23, 2014, a private family funeral was held. I'm talking about Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, cousins of our current Queen Elizabeth, who had some kind of genetic condition (s) that ran in the family. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. 0 cemeteries found in Redhill, Reigate and Banstead Borough, Surrey, England. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. The Queen Mother believed her nieces were deceased and she was not aware of their situation until 1982. After divorcing her first husband Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson (1913 1958), son of Thomas Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 1960) Anne married Prince George Valdemar of Denmark, a great-grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, and a second cousin of King George VI of the United Kingdom who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II. Parmi les autres enfants du comte de Strathmore, il y a leur deuxime fils, John Bowes-Lyon, frre de celle qui deviendra la reine Elizabeth, mre d'Elizabeth II. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. The documentary was directed by Kelly Close and made by Minnow Films, an independent production company, whose synopsis states that "Whilst their sisters Elizabeth and Anne enjoyed lives of privilege and inclusion in the upper echelons of the aristocracy, Katherine and Nerissa were all but forgotten, written out of family history." She explains that her nieces were institutionalized because of fears that evidence of mental instability in the royal family could threaten the security of their claim to the throne after the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII. John Bowes-Lyon died at the family home of Glamis Castle in February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 44. Year should not be greater than current year. In The Crown, the Queen Mother, played by Marion Bailey, tries to defend the decision to fake their deaths, telling Margaret that her brothers children paid a terrible price as she went from being the wife of the Duke of York to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Family members linked to this person will appear here. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Origins [ edit ] Nicholas Trefusis was the last of the line of a branch of the Trefusis family living at Lezant in Cornwall. John Bowes-Lyon pousa Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, fille du 21e baron Clinton. Diana Married Peter Gordon Colin Somervell in February 1960 and their daughter Katherine Somervell is a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Diana Cinderella Mildred Bowes-Lyon (14 December 1923 20 May 1986) married Peter Gordon Colin Somervell (5 May 1910 14 October 1993) on 24 February 1960. It was so sad. Lady Elizabeth Anson, a niece of the two sisters, also issued a statement to the BBC on behalf of the Bowes-Lyon family saying that there was no attempt at a cover-up and that many family members had visited the sisters. He married Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, the younger daughter of 21st Baron Clinton in September 1914. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. The idea that one family alone has the automatic birth right to the crown is already so hard to justify, the gene pool of that family better have 100 per cent purity. In 1986, Nerissa died at Earlswood aged sixty-seven. Sorry! Shortly after the queens death was announced,The Crown showrunners apparently decided that production on the shows sixth and supposedly final season had been suspended as a mark of respect for Elizabeth II. What, if any, responsibility the British royal family had for Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon can be debated. Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis was born on 19 August 1889, in London, Middlesex, England, her father, Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton, GCVO PC, was 26 and her mother, Lady Jane Grey MacDonnell, was 26. None of this was a revelation to the Queen Mother, both on-screen and presumably IRL. The hereditary principle already hangs by such a precarious thread. ). Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. 'Their illness, their imbecility - their professionally diagnosed idiocy and imbecility - would make people question the integrity of the bloodline. Does anyone know? The death of Katherine and Nerissa Bowes Lyon has been shrouded in mystery for over a century. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and his wife Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck had ten children and twenty-six grandchildren. The Queen Mother responds as if she was part of a royal cover-up. In 1997, when Royal Earlswood Hospital closed, Katherine Bowes-Lyon and her cousin Idonea Fane, who were the only ones among the five cousins still living, were moved to Ketwin House Care Home in Surrey, England, and then when it closed in 2001, they were moved to another care home in Surrey. At the time, there were fears that the sisters condition could threaten the social standing of the royal family due the stigma surrounding learning difficulties. Exposure and claims of cover-up Trefusis was portrayed as a senior tutor at the fictional St Matthew's . Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Nerissa Bowes-Lyon was born on 18 February 1919 and Katherine Bowes-Lyon was born on 4 July 1926, the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis. His sister Elizabeth later become Queen Elizabeth. It's also unknown whether Princess Margaret found out about her cousins and confronted her mother; it's certainly unlikely she was told of their plight by her therapist, as is the case in The Crown. The Independent has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment. Three other mentally disabled cousins also lived in Earlswood Hospital. There was never any risk of that genetic disorder occurring in the British royal family descended from The Queen Mother, born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, because it did not originate in the Bowes-Lyon family. The groom, Denys Trefusis, was a tall, blue-eyed war hero who, at least in the eyes of society, was a peerlessly desirable match. "Queen Mother's niece by marriage has pauper's funeral". John Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis had five daughters: John Bowes-Lyon died in 1930 of pneumonia, aged 44, leaving his widow Fenella to care for their four young children, including Nerissa and Katherine who were severely mentally disabled. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Regarding the errors in the death dates in Burkes Peerage, he said of his great-aunt Fenella, the mother of Nerissa and Katherine, She was an elderly lady at that time. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140895787/katherine-juliette-bowes-lyon. Sorry! Try again. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. In 1987, the public made the same discovery in real life; the Daily Express reported that Nerissa had been buried the year prior in a paupers grave marked only by a serial number and plastic name tag. A system error has occurred. Scan this QR code to download the app now. He died in 1930, aged 44; Fenella Trefusis died in 1966. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. In the terminology of the era, both were classified as "imbeciles", and neither learned to talk. by Susan Flantzer Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, party planner to the queen and daughter of one of the other Bowes-Lyon cousins, responded at length, disputing both the assertions by the programme-makers of familial abandonment and the methods of "this supposedly factual documentary". The sisters were unfortunate to have been born in an era when mental disability was seen as a threat to society and linked to promiscuity, feckless breeding and petty crime, the characteristics of the underclass; associations encouraged by popular belief in the science of eugenics, soon to be embraced by the Nazis. Belgravia, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead Borough, Surrey, England. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Miss Emily Trefusis, amateur detective in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie. At least in The Crown, the Queen Mother blamed it all on the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, at which point she became Queen. Archived post. The members of the Bowes-Lyon family had the means and the familial responsibility to make the decisions regarding Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon as did the Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis family, the family of their mother. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Nerissa died aged 66 in 1986 and was buried in a grave marked only with a name tag and serial number . Her nieces were institutionalized in 1941, five years after the abdication of King Edward VIII. His widow was a leading guest at the Queen's wedding to Prince Philip in 1947. 1 She was the daughter of Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Lord Clinton and Lady Jane Grey McDonnell. Fictional. In 1987, it was revealed that Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863 1957) had paid funds to Royal Earlswood Hospital for the care of his five granddaughters. The Crown season 4, episode 7 presents another Princess Margaret-centric chapter that is similar to its predecessors. Anne married Lt.-Col. Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson in 1938 but the couple divorced in 1948 after having two children. In a new episode of The Crown, which is set in the Eighties, the pair are seen in their sixties adoringly watching their cousin Queen Elizabeth II arrive at the Royal Variety Performance on TV. Unofficial Royalty 2020, The Crown shared photos of Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon at the end of Season 4, Episode 7; Credit Netflix/The Crown. The Royal Earlswood Hospital, formerly The Asylum for Idiots and The Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives, in Redhill, Surrey, was the first establishment to cater specifically for people with developmental disabilities. Katherine and Nerissa had three cousins in The Royal Earlswood -Edonea, Rosemary and Etheldreday, the daughters of Fenella's sister Harriet - who shared their disabilities. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Rosemary's twin brother, Edmund lived for only 11 months. However, it later transpired that their deaths had been falsified. Nerissa and Katherines grandfather Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore lived until 1944, three years after his two granddaughters were placed at Royal Earlswood Hospital. Please enter your email and password to sign in. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. The women, then in their sixties, proudly salute to the monarch, stopping only to take pills handed to them by a nurse. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Lady Katherine Juliette Bowes-Lyon I found on Findagrave.com. Charles Trefusis, 21st baron Clifton. It is a matter for the Bowes-Lyon family. And it has largely remained so, even though Katherine died surprisingly recently, at the age of 87 in 2014. based on information from your browser. The ties to the royal family mean they were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II. Weve updated the security on the site. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 - 22 January 1986) and Katherine Juliet Bowes-Lyon (4 July 1926 - 23 February 2014) [1] were two of the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella (ne Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis). This account has been disabled. They had one daughter: Katherine Somervell (23 August 1961) is a god-daughter of, This page was last edited on 22 November 2022, at 05:52. Add to your scrapbook. cemeteries found in Redhill, Reigate and Banstead Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Their admission to the asylum was also deemed necessary when, in 1923, their aunt Elizabeth married the future King George VI. Katherine stayed in the hospital until 1997, when it closed amid abuse claims, and then lived. A daughter, Anne Fereiith Bowes-Lyon was born. Born in 1919 and 1926 respectively, the sisters were daughters of John Bowes-Lyon, elder brother to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later the Queen Mother), and Fenella Bowes-Lyon (ne Trefusis). The Netflix drama also suggests the Queen swallowed the line that the sisters were dead. They went on to have Anne, Nerissa, Diana and Katherine. On 29 September 1914, Bowes-Lyon married the Hon. [1] In 1915, he was posted with the Black Watch. Burke's Peerage said she had died in 1940.Idonea's mother was the sister of Fenella Trefusis, who was married to John Herbert Bowes Lyon, the Queen Mother's brother and the second son of the Earl of Strathmore. Katherine, born in 1926, and Nerissa, born in 1919, were the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon the brother of the Queen Mother and his wife, Fenella. Try again later. John died in 1930 and was. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton, Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore, Timothy Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore, Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore, Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore, Ludwig Friedrich II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Unofficial Royalty Current Monarchies Websites, Royal News Recap for Monday, April 17, 2023, Isabel Stuart, Daughter of King James II of England, Royal News Recap for Saturday, April 15, 2023 and Sunday, April 16, 2023, Patricia Bowes-Lyon (1916 1917), died in infancy, Diana Bowes-Lyon (1923 1986), married Peter Somervell, had one daughter. Amid renewed interest inThe Crown following Queen Elizabeth IIs death last week, fans are wondering about the monarchs hidden cousins in season four. They're your nieces - daughters of your favourite brother. ", Royal Nieces Cover-up Denied By Lord Clinton, Hon. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. 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