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    THE QUEEN AND THE BOWES LYONS

    Nov 30, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS JANE DISMORE

    Every summer Her Majesty the Queen loves to escape to Balmoral, feeling at home in the majesty of the Highlands. Queen Victoria may have fallen in love with the area in the 1840s but for her great-great granddaughter, Scotland is literally in her blood.

    The Queen’s mother Elizabeth was born in 1900, the ninth of ten children of Claude and Cecilia Bowes Lyon, then Lord and Lady Glamis (pronounced Glarms). In her youth, the Queen saw much of her mother’s family.

    The castle had no electricity, which enhanced its chilling reputation for strange happenings

    Their story began in 1372, when Robert II of Scotland made his favourite courtier,. In the 17th century the Lyons were made Earls of Kinghorne, then of Strathmore.

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