Buckingham Palace a décidé de ne pas commenter la situation, mais certains médias ont rapporté qu'Elizabeth II était contrariée par les rumeurs et certains soupçons à propos de mauvais tr… This makes them first cousins to Elizabeth and Margaret. Nerissa and Katherine are two of the daughters of John Bowes-Lyon, who is brother to the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Vu les problèmes qu’elles pouvaient créer, Katherine, 15 ans. They had, to all intents and purposes, been abandoned. Nombreux croyaient que les deux sœurs étaient mortes au début des années 60. The ties to … In 1941, when Nerissa was 22-years-old and Katherine was 15, their family had them admitted to an institution, the Royal Earlswood Hospital, in Redhill, Surrey. Princess Margaret stumbles across the fact of their existence entirely accidentally, via her own therapist, and confronts the Queen Mother. The Crown suggests that by the 1980s, Nerissa and Katherine had been all but forgotten. Car, s’il est certain que Margaret a eu connaissance de l’histoire de Katherine (1927-2014) et Nerissa (1919-1986), que le monde entier a découvert dans les journaux en 1987, il est impossible de connaître son sentiment quant à leurs vies passées en institution. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Earlswood was not a happy place. Nerissa et Katherine naissent respectivement le 17 février 1919 et le 4 juillet 1926. [5], Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Descendancy for BOWES-LYON Claude George, 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorn, "Neglected, hidden away, registered dead: the tragic true story of the Queen's disabled cousins", "Who were the Queen's 'hidden cousins', Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon? When Nerissa died in the mid-1980s, she was buried at Redstone, her grave marked with a plastic tag bearing a number and her name. [7] Her grave was marked with plastic tags and a serial number until her existence was revealed in the media, after which the family added a gravestone. [13] When it closed in 2001, they were moved to another care home in Surrey. Ils ont été internés en secret et ont été officiellement déclarés morts dans les années 1940 et 1961. Updated Dec. 02, 2020 5:55PM ET ... Katherine and Nerissa were the third and fifth daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, the queen mother’s elder brother, and his wife, Fenella. Nerissa et Katherine Bowes-Lyon partageaient le même sang que la reine Elizabeth II. Darwin had nothing on you lot — shame on all of you.”. The pair did not learn to talk and were officially classed as “imbeciles”. As John was the brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon the Queen Mother, the two daughters were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, sharing one pair of grandparents, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Nina Bowes … It is unclear how much knowledge senior members of the Royal Family had of this fact, or how involved they were. She was buried at Redhill Cemetery. FAMILLE ROYALE D ANGLETERRE NERISSA et KATHERINE BOWES-LYON Ce sont 2 des filles de John et de son épouse Fenélla. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 19 décembre 2020 à 23:14. [5] The sisters received no money from the family other than £125 paid to Earlswood each year. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the respective third and fifth daughters of John and Fenella Bowes-Lyon. Katherine was listed as dead in Burke's Peerage in 1961. Harriet Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, The History of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, "Behind The Crown: The true story of the Queen's cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon", Bowes-Lyon Retardation Gene May Have Killed Males‎, "Queen's cousin in 'sub-standard' care home", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nerissa_and_Katherine_Bowes-Lyon&oldid=1013360596, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 March 2021, at 05:44. À lire également Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 – 22 January 1986) [better source needed] Diana Cinderella Mildred Bowes-Lyon (14 December 1923 – 20 May 1986) married Peter Gordon Colin Somervell on 24 February 1960. John was the elder brother of … “It’s wicked and it’s cold-hearted and it’s cruel and it’s entirely in keeping with the ruthlessness which I myself have experienced in this family. Nerissa et Katherine sont les deux filles de l’aristocrate John Bowes-Lyon, le frère de la Reine Mère. Harriet Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1887–1958), sister of Nerissa and Katherine's mother Fenella, married Major Henry Nevile Fane, and 3 of their 7 children lived in Earlswood Hospital: Idonea Elizabeth Fane (1912–2002), Rosemary Jean Fane (1914–1972), and Etheldreda Flavia Fane (1922–1996). When Nerissa died in 1986, none of her family attended the funeral. Yesterday I read on the Telegraph ’s website that Katherine Bowes-Lyon, a cousin of the Queen who was severely mentally disabled and had lived in an institution most of her life, had died aged 87. [4] Nerissa died in 1986, with only hospital staff attending the funeral,[4] while Katherine died in 2014. Trois de leurs cousins du côté de leur mère – Idonea, Rosemary et Ethelreda, les enfants de la sœur de Fenella – avaient des handicaps similaires et ont été envoyés dans le même hôpital. Trois autres membres de la famille étaient atteintes de la même pathologie. C'est en 1987 que le public a appris que Nerissa et Katherine avaient été placées à lhôpital de Earlswood. John was the brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, so the two daughters were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, sharing one pair of grandparents, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. The Crown writer Peter Morgan may help us shed some light on their lives in an upcoming episode – and likely make uncomfortable viewing for the royals and royal fans. Droit d'auteur: les textes sont disponibles sous licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions; d’autres conditions peuvent s’appliquer.Voyez les conditions d’utilisation pour plus de détails, ainsi que les crédits graphiques. Walker’s episode on the sisters is unusually damning of the Royal Family, though it is unclear how much of it is fiction. ", Royal Nieces Cover-up Denied By Lord Clinton, Hon. Her sister Nerissa, who had a similar disability and life history, died in 1986. Nerissa et Katherine savaient pourtant parfaitement qui elles étaient et qui étaient les célèbres membres de leur famille. Les deux soeurs étaient parfaitement conscientes de qui elles étaient. The sisters were sent to the Royal Earlswood Hospital at Redhill, a grim Victorian mansion. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were two of the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis). Nerissa passed away aged 66 in 1986 and was buried in Redhill Cemetery. Elles étaient même ses cousines germaines. 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. They had one daughter: Katherine Somervell (23 August 1961) is a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Mais leurs proches parents les ont laissés à la merci du destin. [4], Suggestions of a royal cover-up were rejected in the press by Lord Clinton in 1987, who claimed that his aunt Fenella (the mother of the two girls) had completed the form for Burke's incorrectly due to Fenella being 'a vague person'; however, Burke's included specific dates of death for both sisters. Nurses and relatives of former inmates, interviewed as part of the programme, recalled an institution that was regimented and had wards of 40 patients, cared for by two nurses. They’re your nieces – daughters of your favourite brother. According to the Daily Mail Margaret, played by Helena Bonham Carter, rages in the episode: “Locked up and neglected. Et Nerissa, 22 ans, ont été envoyées dans un asile en 1941. The Queen Mother does not attempt to deny that she was complicit in the hiding away of her brother’s children. Pire encore, pour l’époque, elles avaient des problèmes mentaux. Ce qui fait de Nerissa et Katherine, les cousines germaines de la reine Élisabeth II et de la princesse Margaret. [1][6][8], Three mentally disabled cousins of the girls also lived in Earlswood Hospital. Nerissa Bowes-Lyon (1919-1986, décès à 67 ans) et Katherine Bowes-Lyon (1926-2014, décès à 88 ans) sont deux des filles de John Herbert Bowes-Lyon et de son épouse Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis. Nerissa et Katherine sont les deux filles de l'aristocrate John Bowes-Lyon, le frère de la Reine Mère. Season four promises to be no different as it charts the period from 1979 to 1990, focusing especially on the so-called people’s princess, Diana. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the respective third and fifth daughters of John and Fenella Bowes-Lyon. There is no record of either woman ever receiving a family visit, according to a Channel 4 documentary into the sisters in 2011. [9] David Danks, then director of the Murdoch Institute,[10] thought that a genetic disease in the Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis family[11] may have killed male members of the family in early childhood and caused learning disabilities in females. En 1941, alors que Nerissa avait 22 ans et Katherine, 15 ans, la famille avait engagé les sœurs dans une institution, alors nommée The Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives à Surrey. Nerissa est née en 1919 et sa sœur cadette Katherine en 1926, toutes deux filles de l’aristocrate mineur John Bowes-Lyon, le frère d’Elizabeth, plus tard la reine maman. Respectivement frere et belle soeur de la Reine Mere Elisabeth, et Oncle et tante de l actuelle Reine d Angleterre.. Nerissa et Katherine etaient donc cousines germaines d Elisabeth 2 D angleterre. Twiss, Katheryn C., and Nerissa Russell 2009 Taking the bull by the horns: Ideology, masculinity, and cattle horns at Çatalhöyük (Turkey). She died six years ago aged 87, having spent 55 years of her life Royal Earlswood Hospital and, since the facility closed in 1997, her final years in a care home. [2], In 1987, it was revealed that, despite the 1963 edition of Burke's Peerage listing Nerissa and Katherine as having died in 1940 and 1961, respectively,[1][3] the sisters were alive, and had been placed in Earlswood Hospital for mentally disabled people in 1941. Nerissa et Katherine naissent respectivement le 17 février 1919 et le 4 juillet 1926. A year later the tabloids heard of the story and published a series of headlines, prompting Katherine to receive flowers from all over the country. Nerissa Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 – 22 January 1986) and Katherine Bowes-Lyon (4 July 1926 – 23 February 2014) were two of the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis). [12] In 1996, the surviving cousins were moved to Ketwin House care home in Surrey. But away from the whirlwind of glamour, fury and scandal that rocked the firm in the Thatcher years, the new Netflix season premiering worldwide on Sunday also touches on a story of heartbreak away from the paparazzi’s glare. Pourtant, Nerissa et Katherine Bowes-Lyon étaient bien les nièces de la reine mère, et donc les cousines d’Élisabeth II. Paris: L'Homme et l'Animal, Société de Recherche Interdisciplinaire. On pense que les symptômes des sœurs étaient le résultat d’une maladie génétique non pas dans … “Don’t be so naive”, she tells Margaret, “we had no choice”. John est le frère d'Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, la reine mère du Royaume-Uni. In 1963, the family’s entry in Burke’s Peerage registered that both daughters were dead – when in fact they were still alive. Nerissa was born in 1919 and younger sister Katherine in 1926, both daughters of minor aristocrat John Bowes-Lyon, the brother of Elizabeth, later the Queen Mum. They were born with severe learning difficulties at a time when societal attitudes towards the disabled were less progressive than now. Little is known about the Queen’s cousins, “hidden” and allegedly abandoned. La véritable histoire des cousines internées d’Élisabeth II et Margaret TheCrown. Burke's Peerage said she had died in 1940. The story was first revealed to the public in the late 1980s and Channel 4 ran a programme on them in 2011 (reviewed … Nées respectivement en 1919 et 1926, Nerissa et Katherine Bowes-Lyon grandissent dans le même foyer familial que leurs parents et leurs trois autres sœurs durant les … She married Robert W. P. Lagneau in 1991. Nerissa (born in 1919) and Katherine (1926) were the daughters of John Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella. John was the elder brother of Queen Elizabeth, who became known as the Queen Mother. Katherine et Nerissa Bowes-Lyon sont de vraies personnes, atteintes d'un grave handicap mental, internées au Royal Earlswood Hospital en 1941 à l'âge de 15 et 22 ans. [7], The sisters were featured in the seventh episode of the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. Nerissa Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 – 22 January 1986) and Katherine Bowes-Lyon (4 July 1926 – 23 February 2014)[1] were two of the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis). Nobody visited them, remembered their birthdays or send them Christmas cards, according to the programme. Si Katherine et Nerissa ont pu être déclarés mortes c’est bien parce que la mort sociale ( lire l’institutionnalisation) c’est la mort tout court. The couple had five daughters in total, though one did not survive infancy. According to The Telegraph, only hospital staff attended her funeral and her grave was marked with plastic tags and a serial number. La quatrième saison de « The Crown » dévoile l'un des secrets les plus lourds des Windsor : l'histoire de Nerissa et Katherine Bowes-Lyon, deux cousines de la reine handicapées, internées de longues années et … Les nièces de la reine-mère sont mortes en asile psychiatrique, dans la plus grande indifférence. [6] According to a 2011 television documentary about the sisters, "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 people with learning disabilities). Comme le rapporte The Sun, elles vivaient dans des conditions difficiles et n’avaient que peu de vêtements. Et de mettre en doute leur pureté génétique. Nurses interviewed on the documentary said that, to their knowledge, the family never sent the sisters a birthday or Christmas gift or card. The Crown is famed for leaving few stones unturned in its portrayal of the Royal Family at its best and worst. It is believed the sisters’ symptoms were the result of a genetic condition not in the Bowes-Lyon’s bloodline, but that of his wife Fenella. They were both born with servere learning disabilities. Born seven years apart in 1919 and 1926, respectively, Nerissa and Katherine both had severe development disabilities from birth and never learned to talk. Nerissa Bowes-Lyon (18 février 1919-22 janvier 1986) et Katherine Bowes-Lyon (4 juillet 1926-23 février 2014) étaient deux des filles de John Herbert Bowes-Lyon et de son épouse Fenella (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes- Trefusis). mais enfin tout de même ! “You gave them a bath, cut their nails, fed them if they needed help,” one said. “If you’re not first in line, if you’re an individual character with individual needs or, God forbid, an irregular temperament… then you’ll be spat out, or you’ll be hidden away or worse: declared dead. Pourtant, Nerissa est décédée vingt-trois ans plus tard, et Katherine était toujours vivante lors de la fuite de ce secret incroyable dans la presse. In the terminology of the era, both were classified as "imbeciles", and neither learned to talk. Il fut tout de même le prince de la gaffe. John was the brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, so the two daughters were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, sharing one pair of grandparents, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Cou… Voir ici , ici , et ici . The Queen Mother was a patron of the Royal Mencap Society, a charity working for people with disabilities. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Pentagon police officer charged in Maryland shooting deaths, House Ethics Committee opens investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz.