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Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne GCVO (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and maternal grandmother and godmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the youngest daughter and the ninth of ten children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland), and his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II .
NameBirthDeathAgeThe Hon. Violet Hyacinth Bowes-Lyon17 April 188217 October 189311 years30 August 18838 February 196177 years22 September 188425 May 194964 years1 April 18867 February 193043 yearsSep 2, 2020 · Queen Elizabeth’s maternal grandmother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, sadly never lived long enough to see her granddaughter ascend to the throne as she...
Sep 24, 2022 · Genealogy for Countess of S. Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon (Cavendish-Bentinck), Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862 - 1938) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- London, Middlesex, England
- Glamis, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- September 11, 1862
May 8, 2023 · On 16 July 1881, she married Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, at Petersham, Surrey, and they had ten children. Claude inherited his father's title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904, whereupon Cecilia became Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
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(Cecilia) Nina Bowes-Lyon (née Cavendish-Bentinck), Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862-1938), Mother of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and grandmother of Elizabeth II. Sitter in 5 portraits