DUKE OF YORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 5

DUKE OF YORK.

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

LADY E. BOWES-LYON.

OLD SCOTTISH FAMILY.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.

Received Tan. 16, 8.5 p.m.

London, Jan. 15

The Court Circular states: It is with the greatest pleasure the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their beloved son, the Duke of York, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kingliorne. to which union the King has gladly given his consent.

The Duke of York is 28 and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is 22. The Duke trained for the Royal Navy at Osborne and Dartmouth and later served in the navy. Jn 1918 he went in for flying, and attained the rank of captain in the Royal Air Force. He has undertaken many public duties lately and has made himself very popular with the English public. , The name of Ladv Elizabeth BowesLyon Will be T'dcalled by those who fol* low English society news as one of the ■oeautiful young bridesmaids to Princess Mary at her recent wedding to Viscount Tascellep. She is a typical English girl, and her union with a son of the British Royal house will be generally welcomed. Eighteen months ago Queen Mary and Princess Mary paid a visit to the Earl and Countess of Strathmore at Glamis Castle, and a few months later the Duke of York stayed there. The Bowes-Lyon family trace their ancestry back to Sir John Lyon, who was son-in-law and secretary to King Robert IT. of Scotland, the first of the Stuart dvnasty, and grandson of Robert the Bruce. Sir John Lyon had been luckv enough to marry King Robert’s daughter. Lady Jean Stewart, and received from the Crown a grant of the thanedom of Glamis. where now stands the splendid and historic Glamis Castle, one of the finest baronial piles in Scotland. Sir John Lyon’s grandson became Lord Glamis. and was one of the hostages delivered up to the English for the ransom of James I of Scotland in 1424, and held for three years. The sixth Lord Glamis and his ladv, and several more of his household, however, were suspected of serving the Crown ?n a different capacitv. for they were indicted for trying to kill James V. of Scotland hr poison or witchcraft, and Ladv Glamis was burned at the ~ stake in Edinburgh as a witch in 1537. Tn the end. the informer confessed that the whole tale was a pack of lies. Another Glamis was captain of the guard to James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England, and was made Earl of Kingliorne. The third Earl had the title altered to Strathmoremnd Kingliorne. and in 1672 secured from lhe Crown a verv remarkable patent hv which his titles, now a numerous bunch —Farl of Strathmore and Kinvhorne, Viscount Lyon. Baron Glamis, Tannadice. Sidlaw. and Strathdiehtie —should go. in default Of direct male issue, to anv person nominated by him or his heirs and assigns whatsoever. So far the direct mall* line has not failed, and 1 these strange provisions remain in abeyance. The tenth Farl died the dav after his wedding in 1820. and his widow, after being a bride for a day. eleven years later married Sir William Hutt, who became one nf the directors of the New Zealand Company, and after whom our Hutt River is named.