Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck

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Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, portrait by Philip Alexius de László , 1931

Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck , better known as Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne GCVO , GBE , DStJ (born September 11, 1862 in London ; † June 23, 1938 ibid) was a British aristocrat as well as the grandmother and godmother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Life

Cecilia Nina was the eldest daughter of three children of the Reverend Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1817-1865) and his second wife Caroline Louisa Burnaby (1832-1918), eldest daughter of the English landowner and High Sheriff of Leicestershire Edwyn Burnaby and Anne Caroline Salisbury. She was the great-granddaughter of British Prime Minister William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland . She came from an agnatic line of the Dutch noble Bentinck family and was also a descendant of the English King Henry VII from the House of Tudor .

Cecilia Bowes-Lyon at the wedding of her daughter Elizabeth in 1923

On July 16, 1881, she married in London the Scottish aristocrat and officer of the Life Guards Sir Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (1855-1944), a son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his Wife of Frances Dora Smith. The couple lived alternately in London and at Glamis Castle , the Scottish ancestral home of the Bowes-Lyon family. The marriage, which all reports said was harmonious, had ten children:

  • Violet Hyacinth (April 17, 1882 - October 17, 1893, died of diphtheria )
  • Mary Frances (August 30, 1883 - February 8, 1961) ⚭ 1910 Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone
  • Patrick (September 22, 1884 - May 25, 1949), Lord Glamis and later 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ⚭ 1908 Lady Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne
  • John Herbert (April 1, 1886 - February 7, 1930) ⚭ 1914 The Honorable Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis
  • Alexander Francis (April 14, 1887 - October 19, 1911, died of a brain tumor )
  • Fergus (April 18, 1889 - September 27, 1915, fallen) ⚭ 1914 Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer
  • Rose Constance (May 6, 1890 - November 17, 1967) ⚭ 1916 Vice Admiral William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville
  • Michael Claude Hamilton (October 1, 1893 - May 1, 1953) ⚭ 1928 Elizabeth Cator
  • Elizabeth Angela Marguerite (August 4, 1900 - March 30, 2002) ⚭ 1923 Prince Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , last Emperor of India and head of the Commonwealth of Nations .
  • David (May 2, 1902 - September 13, 1961) ⚭ 1929 Rachel Pauline

During the First World War , Glamis Castle served as a military hospital and sanatorium for the wounded soldiers. At this point in time, doctors discovered cancer in Lady Bowes-Lyon and in October 1921 the uterus ( hysterectomy ) was removed by surgery . In the following years she lived completely withdrawn at the ancestral home of the Bowes-Lyon family. At the wedding of her granddaughter Anne Bowes-Lyon in April 1938, Lady Bowes-Lyon suffered a heart attack , of which she died eight weeks later. Her remains were buried four days later in the family vault at Glamis Castle.

Name in different phases of life

  • 1862–1881 Miss Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
  • 1881–1904 Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Lady Glamis
  • 1904-1938 The Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

literature

  • Hugo Vickers: Elizabeth: The Queen Mother , Arrow Books / Random House (2006) ISBN 9780099476627

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personal data
SURNAME Cavendish-Bentinck, Cecilia Nina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowes-Lyon, Cecilia Nina, Lady Glamis; The Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British aristocrat and grandmother and godmother of today's Queen Elizabeth II.
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1938
Place of death London