AS images of the Queen arriving at the Royal Variety Performance flicker across the TV, two sisters in an asylum stare lovingly at the screen and stand for the national anthem.
The women, in their sixties, cradle a baby doll and proudly salute, breaking only to take pills handed to them by a nurse. The siblings are not just fans of Her Majesty, they are her cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, and the scene features in the new series of The Crown as it revisits the story of their tragic lives.
The Netflix drama looks at how they were registered as DEAD and hidden from the world in the Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives — cruelly known as The National Asylum for Idiots — in Redhill, Surrey, after being born with severe.
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