Katherine Bowes-Lyon ^2,3

  General Notes:

[Europe_New.FTW] [royalfam.ged] http:www.guardian.co.ukmonarchystory0,2763,346418,00.html "In 1987, it emerged that Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon had been incarcerated in the Roya l 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 the story came to light 20 years ago the Sun owned by Blair supporter Rupert Murdoch h ad a disgusting headline along the lines of "Queen's cousin found in madhouse" and made a jok e of the whole thing. Kathleen Bowes-Lyon was still alive a couple of years ago, there was a story that she was on e of a group of elderly patients about to be transferred from the hospital where they had bee n living happily for a number of years into smaller care in the community type units.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Record Change, 20 Dec 2002. ^2,3