Queen Elizabeth II's Maternal Grandparents
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- When in April 1923 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married the then 27 year old Prince Albert of the United Kingdom she became the first non-royal to marry into the British royal family since Henry VIII married Catherine Parr 400 years earlier. Although Albert was only the second born son to his parents he eventually ended up on the British throne when his elder brother abdicated in 1936. Elizabeth and Albert would go on to have two daughters: Elizabeth, born in 1926 and Margaret, born in 1930. Elizabeth succeeded to the British throne when her father suddenly died in 1952.
Queen Elizabeth II as such found herself in a situation between royalty and the British nobility through her mothers side of the family. One side was constantly in the spotlight and in the headlines while the other side of her family was lesser known to the public. So in today's video we will uncover the lives of Queen Elizabeth II’s maternal grandparents.
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Their son, The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon, an older brother of Elizabeth was killed-in-action in 1915 during the Battle of Loos, his body was never recovered and has no known grave. When Elizabeth and Albert were married in 1923, the wedding procession out of Westminster Abbey passed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Elizabeth impulsively laid her wedding bouquet on the grave in memory of her brother, the tradition continues to this day...
Claude Bowes-Lyon was a great character. He loved cricket and would bowl plum puddings down the table.
😄
Princess Margaret looks like her maternal grandmother, and The Queen Mother like her father
I disagree that princess Margaret would look as her grandmother Cecilia. But I will look more at pictures of them in time, maybee I will change my mind.
Both of them was very good looking anyway.
@ewonnestrand7298 No you are correct,too. I agree! I think Margaret was significantly more beautiful but Elizabeth got to be Queen so...Consolation prize? Lol
Agreed
I love the lineage of the British royal family and I love all royal families from around the world 🌎 ❤
Very Interesting
Thanks!
@@BackToHistoryYT
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Im part of cecillias family im related to her down to Elizabeth ii
If I remember it right, all of Claude and Cecilias
girls hade names of flower. Queen mother Rose and her eldest sister as we heard in this video Violet.
Wrong of me, the second girl Mary had no flower name. But on the other hand, the first Violet also had the name Hyacinth 😄.
The Queen Mothers name was Elizabeth, so not all named after flowers but a lovely idea 😊
@@tbonesmummum839 😃 yeah I know but she also have the name Marguerite (and Angela). I did remember'd wrong in my last coment, I remember now. Princess Margaret was the one that hade her second name as Rose.
Sounds like you are confusing them with the TV show Keeping Up Appearances.
@@markduncan9757Love that Hyacinth 😂. Can see it how many times.
Another weird AI imitation of a simple form..
The Queen Mothers younger brother, David, was homosexual
Shock, horror.
Weren't they all to some degree?
So what?
He got married and had children.
And?
Refreshing to hear something about the maternal line. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Henry 8th married Parr not Henry 7th...
Cecilia Strathmore battled uterine cancer in the early 1920s and still survived to 1938? That was one tough lady.
Like mother, like daughter.
Fun fact: The Queen Mother's mum is descended from Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn. Thus, the Boleyn lineage lives on through Queen Elizabeth II's descendants:)
So IF Henry 8th was Mary children father. The Queen Mom was actually royal. But, as we know. It wasn't document and since none of his children that are 100% sure are his. Never had children of their own (as far as we know of).
Take that Henry XIII !
You've just given me something to do this afternoon 😅
@@D38401 - That’s not how it works. Everyone is descended from Royalty, if you go back far enough. Not everyone is Royal.
Would that make them part Tudor?
I visited England for the first time in 2002. The day I arrived, the Queen mum died. I was there for a week and watched the funeral procession.
It always irritates me when people keep on labelling the Royal family as German (normally because they have an agenda behind any comments) yet they ignore this Half of the Queens family.
Absolutely agree with you. Like so many people in the UK, the late Queen had German ancestry. The name England means Land of the Angles, who came from what is now Germany.
@natewatl9423 They aren't. The last German born direct ancestor, Queen Mary's father, died in 1900. Fact trumps bias.
Aren’t we all of Germanic descent
Because they were commoners!
@@susansalt1965 A lot of people are, but not all.
Another interesting video and yes rarely hear anything mentioned about the Queen Mothers parents or family, if they do talk about them its briefly,
Thanks!
Princess Margaret, I believe, was born in Scotland, was she not? At Glamis (sp?) Castle.
She was born there :)
Claude made his own cocoa?! Oh my. He really is a man of the people.
🤣🤣🤣You made me cough.
The Queen mother can trace her ancestry back to Robert the Bruce King of Scotland.
In another video why don't you talk about Elizabeth bows lion siblings and their children? Including 2 nieces who were tragically institutionalized.
I have a video on the Queen‘s non-royal cousins but I could combine that with one on her aunts/uncles :)
As were most disabled people of that era.
Nerissa and Katherine were
the children of Lieutenant
The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon
(1886 - 1930)
AND
(m. 1914)
The Hon. Fenella Hepburn-
Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis
(1889 - 1966) The
daughter of the 21st
Baron Clinton.
*John and Fenella had*
*5 children.*
Sadly, Fenella's only
sibling, Harriet, had
3 out of her 7 children
with the same conditions
as Nerissa and Katherine
Bowes-Lyon. Those
siblings also lived in
Eastwood Hospital
Excellent content, and delivered well. Thank you. 👏👏👏👊
Thanks!
That was great! Wonderful that you trace the lineage of the "forgotten" co-stars in history. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
DID YOU KNOW that The Queen mother's mum is descended from king Henry the 8th of England little sister Princess Mary Queen of France
So the Tudor line continued through both Margaret and Mary Tudor, sisters of Henry VIII.
THIS is bordering on INBREEDING.
An important part of Royal family history. Also I can see that the faces of the people mentioned in this documentary looks like the faces of some of the present day Royals. I love that.
It's not correct to say that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the first non-royal to marry into the royal family since Henry VIII. For example, Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters, married the Marquis of Lorne, who was a governor-general of Canada. I am sure there are other examples.
Louise had no children.
All but one of George V's children married commoners. The one exception was George, who married Princess Marina of Greece/Denmark.
Anne Hyde married James II when he was still Duke of York.
3:13 - ‘Berk’ in ‘Berkshire’ is pronounced like ‘Bark’.
I think this was a ‘text to speech’ program
Thanks for pointing out!
@@BackToHistoryYT - You’re welcome. This is another great video of yours.
I'm glad to hear more about Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's parents. I only heard about her mother, Cecilia, due to the Royal Anniversary Special called "Elizabeth and Bertie" where we see her and Elizabeth talking about marriage to Bertie. She ironically was assuring her daughter that she's not expected to wear a crown by marrying Bertie because he was the Duke of York, not the Prince of Wales. That's probably why Claude accepted the match as well since Bertie wasn't expected to become King George VI.
It was well known that marrying into the Royal Family was a difficult one because during their time it was Queen Victoria who ruled the roost, and her son, Edward VII had a long "sordid" history with his affairs and partying before he took the throne. There was even the fear that Prince Albert, Edward's older brother, the prior Prince of Wales, was Jack the Ripper. And this was all before Elizabeth was born, so I don't blame them for having reservations.
Prince Albert Victor was Edwatd VII's eldest son not his brother and was never Prince of Wales as he died before his father became King.
that is a tv show and not fact
The Duke and Duchess of York were married in 1923, by which time Victoria had been dead for 22 years and Edward VII for 12. As for the 'Ripper' myth about the Duke of Clarence, no one takes that seriously, least of all the Royal Family. The actual reason the Bowes-Lyons were apprehensive about the marriage was that they knew that it meant their daughter's life would be exposed to excessive publicity for the rest of her days, which it was.
I think the last non-royal marriage was when James II married Anne Hyde when he was also the Duke of York.
Queen Victoria's daughter Louise married a Scottish aristocrat as did Edward VII's daughter Louise and 2 of George III's brothers married commoners which he disapproved of and had the Royal Marriages Act passed so no Royal could marry without the monarchs permission
I think Prince Harry resemble Claude the father of Queen Elizabeth Bowes Lyon.
Thanks for this documentary which reveals the important of their family history. I love that.
Harry looks like PRINCE PHILIP !!! Especially the eyes !!!
@@gwae48 Take a careful look at Prince Harry's face, his nose and mouth. You will see that he looks like Claude the father of Queen Elizabeth Bowes Lyon. His (Prince Harry's) shoulder resemble that of Prince Phillip (his grandfather).
Genes are proliferate and sometimes resistive.
However, this documentary is still an important part of the royal family history. I love that.
Would love to hear more of the five+ Bowes-Lyon cousins that were institutionalized much of their lives. I believe all first cousins of QEII.
There were two Bowes-
Lyon siblings the other
three were their first
cousins.
Nerissa and Katherine were
the children of Lieutenant
The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon
(1886 - 1930)
AND
(m. 1914)
The Hon. Fenella Hepburn-
Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis
(1889 - 1966) The
daughter of the 21st
Baron Clinton.
*John and Fenella had*
*5 children.*
Sadly, Fenella's only sibling,
Harriet, had 3 of her 7 children
with the same conditions
as Nerissa and Katherine
Bowes-Lyon. Those
siblings also lived in
Eastwood Hospital
Wait! Thats all they can trace back to the 1700s
I have a fuzzy memory that someone in her lineage was illegitimate. Now l must look into this.🎉
Cecillia looks exactly like her daughter elizabeth the queen mother
Your statement that Elizabeth was the first non-royal to marry into the royal family since Anne Boleyn is incorrect. Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victoria married John Campbell, the Marquess of Lorne and he certainly was not royal.
2 of George III's brothers married non royals it was because of this that the Royal Marriages Act was passed as George did not approve of his brothers wives
The Queen mother really wasn’t attractive, that’s why she gained a bunch of nicknames and was made fun of
So it does happen
This is interesting
Everyone forgets Anne Hyde. She had died by the time James took the throne but nevertheless she was not royal.
Your voice is what keeps you from quitting your day job.
Voiceover commentary is incredibly irritating.
Who noticed the narrators voice change?
Queen 11 is/was my 8th cousin through her mother. Weird
Why is that weird
The Queen was Elizabeth II, not Elizabeth 11 (eleven.)
Это я и. Филлип а ана не существует
I thought the queen mother was the cookes daughter
No she wasn't
No, that's just a rumor started by lady C to get attention.
Good job on accurate reporting... have a safe,healthy new year.
Same to you! Thanks
You are speaking of the Queen's parents not grandparents. You need to go back another generation for the Queen's grandparents.
These were Queen Elizabeths grandparents. Her parents were King George and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon
Great video. Now. please do a video on "Cookie", the birther of Elizabeth.
Nope -- her mother was Cecilia not the cook.
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was born of what we would now call a Surrogate Mum.
Her biological mother was a servant of the Bowes Lyon family - this was a well known fact at the time, and quite a common practice amongst certain classes in Scotland at the time.
Her father is her biological father but both Elizabeth and her younger brother were born of the servant, a cook, hence the reason why their Cecilia referred to Elizabeth and David as "my two Benjamins" which is a biblical reference.
Read Lady Colin Campell's book about Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - the first chapter is a real eye opener if you didn't already know about Lady Elizabeth's real story.
I had heard this but didn’t know it was confirmed.
@@Hava744It isn't confirmed and no one except apparently Lady Colin Campbell believes it. The supposed reasons she gave are easy to contradict.
Maybe that is why king Edward VIII called her cookie or The cookie.
@@cordeliaadams4898
Exactly so.
I think her physcial birth mother was called Margueritte (sp) and it's interesting to note that David and Serena Armstrong-Jones called their daughter Margueritte too.
Lady Colin Campbell's book explains it very well .
@@cordeliaadams4898 They called her that because she was stout with a round face, a stereotypical cook. Don't believe the cook rubbish.
The grandparents were brother and sister 😂
Where do you get that idea from?
Interesting. Now do one on the fertility treatments it took to get the two Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
A turkey baster was reportedly involved
And your proof of that allegation is?
Using the current head of that family a rapist?
Queen Charlotte was a black women married King George 111
She may have had some ancestry from North Africa going back about 300 years before she was born so to call her black is a bit of a stretch
I cannot believe how many people give a shit out this...
Then don't watch if U not interested in history
Some love history. Why are you here?
@@anime1137 I didn't watch just came to look at the comments and couldn't believe how many people are using up real estate in their memory for this
You can’t spell
Don’t watch then. Easy.
Animals sexuallty =, devill devill devill = england ( king )
annoying voiceover. Spoils the content