THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MISSING COUSINS
I don't know what its like for the rest of the world, but as a Brit I'm already bored shitless by the death of Mrs Windsor, late unelected head of state.
Despite what our media is telling us, the country is not plunged into mourning. I was out and about getting on with life today, as was everybody else. No-one I spoke to even mentioned it. Its irrelevant to the majority, just as the royal family have always been.
Our mainstream media is telling us what a lovely old humanitarian she was, but I can't help remembering a few years ago following the death of the erstwhile Princess Diana everyone was calling her a hard-faced old bag for her lack of empathy shown.
Which in turn reminded me of The Strange Case of The Missing Cousins.
Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, who each had a mental age of about three years old and never learned to talk were the third and fifth daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother’s brother, and his wife, Fenella . And first cousins of the late Liz.
In 1941 they were sent from the family home in Scotland to Royal Earlswood Hospital at Redhill, Surrey, where they would live out the rest of their days.
Burke's Peerage, the posh people's who's who, reported that Nerissa died in 1940 and Katherine in 1961.
Only they didn't. Nerissa lived on until 1986, and Katherine until 2014.
They were written out of history, almost certainly with the full knowledge of Mrs Windsor. They didn't fit the image - they had to go.
Because the royal family is all image, and very little else.
It's a depressing story. There's a pretty comprehensive telling of it here :
Stories like this (and who knows what else has been covered up over the years) to my mind show the real face of the royal family.
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