QUEEN ELIZABETH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 3

QUEEN ELIZABETH

LARGE FAMILY CIRCLE r KIN TO MANY NOBLE HOUSES BROTHER KILLED IN THE WAR Tho accession of the new King and Queen, by reason of the fact that the Queen was born a commoner, has brought a number of noble houses into closer association with the Throne, states an English writer. A member of a large family—originally six sons and four daughters—tho Queen has moro than 50 immediate relatives. In addition, tho families into which her brothers and sisters married arc now brought into greater prominence. Her Majesty's eldest brother, Lord Glamis, married a sister of tho Duko of Leeds—Lady Dorothy Osborne. They havo four children—the Master of Glamis, tho Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, and the Hon. Timothy and Hon. Nancy Bowes-Lyon, who are twins. The next brother, tho Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon, was killed in tho war about the time that a daughter, Rosemary, was born fo his wife,'a sister of the Karl of Portarlington. Sho lias now married again and is Lady Christian Martin. The Hon. Michael Bowes-Lvon, fhe third brother, married Miss Elizabeth Cator, a girlhood friend of tho new Queen. Their children are Fergus, Cecilia and Patricia Bowes-Lyon. Ancient Peerage The next in age, the Hon. John Bowes-Lyon, died in 1930. Ho was married to a daughter of Lord Clinton. She survives him, and has a family of four girls—Anno, Nerissa, Diana, and Catherine Bowes-Lyon. The Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, Her Majesty's youngest brother, who is two years younger than she, married Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, a niece of Viscount Astor. They have a son, Simon, and a daughter, Davina. The Queen's eldest sister, Lady Elphinstone, is tho wife of one of the oldest Scottish barons, bis peerage dating back to 1509. Their children are the Master of Elphinstone, the Hon. Andrew, tho Hon. Elizabeth, and the Hon. Margaret Elphiustone, and tho Hon. Mrs. John Wills, who, as the Hon. Jean Elphinstone, was married this year. Lady Rose Leveson-Gower, wife of the heir-presumptive to Earl Granville, Rear-Admiral the Hon. William Leveson-Gower, is the other sister, and sho has a son and a daughter, Granville and Mary. In addition to tho son killed in the war and the Hon. John Bowes-Lyon, who died six years ago, tho Eari and Countess of Strathmore, parents of the Queen, lost a son and a daughter before the war. Her Majesty's Many Cousins

Queen Elizabeth has a large circle of cousins. Her uncle, the Hon. Francis Bowes-Lyon, who married Lady Anne Lindsay, a daughter of tho 25th Earl of Crawford, has two sons, each of whom is married and each of whom has three children. Another uncle, the Hon. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, who married a ward of a member of the Lister-Kaye family, has two daughters. The Hon. Malcolm and Mrs. Bowes-Lyon—a third uncle and an aunt by marriage—have one daughter, who married Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, a son of the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon. There aro two daughters of this marriage. Tho Hon. Mrs. Ernest Bowes-Lyon comes into this group, having married still another brother of the Queen's father. He died in 1891, leaving a family of five, and the Queen has cousins and second cousins in this connection also. Her aunts are Lady Constance Balckburn and Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon, the former having three daughters, each of whom is married. The youngest of them is the wife of the Hon. James Carnegie, a son of the Earl of Southosk and brother-in-law of Lady Maud Carnegie. Lady Strathmore is a member of the Cavendisli-Bentinck family, her father baying been tho late Rev. Charles William Cavendisli-Bentinck.