John Bowes-Lyon: Last News

Camilla’s ex-husband has been handed a new Royal role – attending a funeral on behalf of the Queen Consort. Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, 82, represented his ex-wife at the funeral of John Bowes-Lyon – second cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II – at Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge, London.The move was revealed in the Court Circular, the official record of royal engagements. It said: “The King was represented by the Earl of Rosslyn at the Funeral of Mr John Bowes-Lyon.

The Crown might be shocked to learn the harrowing true story of the Queen’s cousins.The "hidden" family members were confined to an asylum and registered as being dead after they were born with severe learning difficulties.Daughters of John Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother’s brother, Nerissa Bowes Lyon was born in 1919, and sister Katherine in 1926.The sisters were born with a mental condition that meant they were unable to communicate – something that their father feared would threaten their social standing.At ages 15 and 22, Katherine and Nerissa – the Queen Mother's nieces – were hidden away in the Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives in Redhill, Surrey.Katherine and Nerissa were secretly placed in an institution that was

The Queen may be known for having a large family with most of them often carrying out public duties. But little is known about two of her first cousins, who were reportedly shunned away from family life and instead locked behind the four walls of an asylum.