BOWES-LYON STORY.
DISCREDITED IN ENGLAND. (Uaited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph - -Co’) , 'rtrht.) LONDON. August 26. Apropos of the story from Australia that the Duchess of York's first cousin was a third-class passenger on the Orama, the Bowes-Lyon family state that they are not aware of any relation visiting Australia. One member said: “If she is my sister-in-law, she has not lost six brothers at the war.’’
[A cable received last night said that aboard the Orama, as a third-class passenger, was Mrs Marie Evelyn Ernest (nee Bowes-Lyon), a first cousin of the Duchess of York. “She is accompanied by two women companions. Mrs Ernest reluctantly admitted her identity to a pressman, and said that she did not want any more publicity than could be avoided. Her health is poor, and she travelled third-class for special reasons. She is the last surviving member of her branch of the family. Six of her brothers lost their live 3 during the
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18355, 28 August 1929, Page 8
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159BOWES-LYON STORY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18355, 28 August 1929, Page 8
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