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BOWES-LYON Nerissa
1919 - 1986

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• Birth	18 Feb 1919
  Gender	Female
  Died	1986
  Buried	Redhill Cemetery
  Notes	http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,346418,00.html "In 1987, it emerged that Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon had been incarcerated in the Royal Earlswood Mental Hospital in Surrey for 46 years. The two women, nieces of the Queen Mother, had never been visited by a member of the royal family." When Nerissa Bowes-Lyon died in 1986, she was buried in Redhill cemetery. Her grave was marked with a plastic tag bearing a serial number and her name. When the story came to light 20 years ago the Sun (owned by Blair supporter Rupert Murdoch) had a disgusting headline along the lines of "Queen's cousin found in madhouse" and made a joke of the whole thing.
  Person ID	I6389	Royal Family of Europe
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2002

  
  

  Father	BOWES-LYON John Herbert,   b. 1 Apr 1886,   d. 7 Feb 1930
  Mother	TREFUSIS Fenella Hepburn Stuart Forbes,   b. 19 Aug 1889,   d. 1966
  Married	29 Sep 1914
  Family ID	F1415	Group Sheet