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According to a 2011 television documentary about the sisters, The Queen's Hidden Cousins, broadcast by Channel 4, "throughout their time at the hospital, there is no known record that the sisters were ever visited by any member of the Bowes-Lyon or royal families, despite their aunt, the Queen Mother, being a Patron of Mencap" (a charity for ...
Less than a year older than her cousin Elizabeth, she was a frequent playmate of the future Queen. [5] During the Second World War she lived at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and took a secretarial course. [6] [7] On 20 November 1947, she was a bridesmaid to Princess Elizabeth at her wedding to Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. [8]
Lady Arbella Stuart (also Arabella, or Stewart; 1575 – 25 September 1615) was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. During the reign of King James VI and I (her first cousin), she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant to the English throne, in secret. King ...
Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy Express/Stringer/Getty ImagesPrincess Alexandra (born December 25, 1936) was Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin throu The 7 Most Prominent of Queen ...
She says it was a real privilege, but I think she was looking for a little bit of peace and quiet. Lady Pamela Mountbatten, right, lady-in-waiting, adjusts Queen Elizabeth’s stole at the Royal ...
Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh (née Throckmorton; 16 April 1565 – c. 1647), was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Her secret marriage to Sir Walter Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for both her and her husband.
Secret letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I have finally been decoded.. According to the codebreakers, the letters, which were ...
Thus Catherine was Elizabeth I's first cousin, and Lettice Knollys her first cousin once removed. [5] Lettice was the third of her parents' 16 children. [6] Sir Francis and his wife were Protestants. [6] In 1556 they went to Frankfurt in Germany to escape religious persecution under Queen Mary I, taking five of their children with them. [6]