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Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO (2 May 1902 – 13 September 1961) was the tenth and youngest child and the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck.
Apr 26, 2024 · Learn about the life of David Bowes-Lyon, the younger brother of Queen Elizabeth II and a former member of a top-secret propaganda unit during WWII. Discover how he tried to stop his niece's marriage to Prince Philip and why he was expelled from the royal family.
Dec 2, 2020 · Now 73-year-old David Bowes-Lyon, whose father was a first cousin of the Queen Mother once removed, has criticised The Crown’s version of events, dubbing it ‘fiction pretending to be fact’.
The Bowes-Lyon family descends from George Bowes of Gibside and Streatlam Castle (1701–1760), a County Durham landowner and politician, through John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon.
Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO (2 May 1902 – 13 September 1961) was the tenth and youngest child and the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck. He was the younger brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and uncle to Queen Elizabeth II.
However, David Bowes-Lyon, 73, was unable to explain why, in 1963, the family’s entry in Burke’s Peerage, a guide to the British aristocracy, declared that both women were dead. Bowes-Lyon, the...
Honourable Sir David Bowes-Lyon Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order was the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck as well as their tenth and youngest child.
