There’s always a black sheep in the family, and this is no different for Prince Harry. He’s now become the black sheep of the family, the same goes for Edward VIII and Princess Margaret, who was also the ‘spare’.
Princess Margaret was an extremely unhappy person and stopped from marrying the man that she loved, but she was a remarkably outgoing individual and concealed her sorrow with drinking and partying.
Princess Margaret could have done what Edward VIII did and married the man that she loved, but that would have meant that she would have been excommunicated from ‘the firm’ and sent on her way, but she enjoyed the money and the notoriety that went with being Princess Margaret.
Prince Harry was extremely fortunate because he was allowed to marry the woman that he loved, but he wasn’t satisfied with that, he wanted to expose the Royal Family for what they actually are – they’re no different from anybody else, with blood flowing through their veins with thoughts and emotions, only those thoughts and feelings are not allowed to be shown to the world because they’re the Royal Family and it’s not becoming to display emotion, instead it’s all hidden inside the gates of the Royal Palace.
Even King Charles was eventually allowed to marry the woman that he loved, after the failed marriage and death of Princess Diana.
The Royals are allowed to divorce, but once they were never allowed to marry divorcees, but now somehow they’re allowed, and it’s understandable that the Royal Family have to a point permitted itself to be modernised, but what about those that preceded them and were not allowed to marry for love and were ousted from ‘the firm?’
What about all those secrets that stay within the walls of Buckingham Palace? What about the children Nerissa Bowes-Lyon and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, they were the first cousins of Queen Elizabeth, and they were discreetly detained in the Royal Earlswood Asylum for Mental Defectives in 1941.
Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the daughters of the Queen Mother’s older brother John Bowes-Lyon, but Nerissa and Katherine weren’t living in any royal residence, instead, they resided in a drab mental health establishment.
Nerissa and Katherine lived in the Bowes-Lyon family home in Scotland until 1941, and according to a 1987 report from Canadian outlet Maclean’s, it was their mother Fenella Bowes-Lyon who chose to put them in full-time supervision in the English town of Redhill in the county of Surrey, their father John had passed away in 1930, the facility’s name at the time, Royal Earlswood Asylum for Mental Defectives, reflect the unenlightened culture of shame surrounding those with mental illness and disabilities.
As of 1963, Burke’s Peerage deemed an authority on British royal genealogy, had Nerissa and Katherine recorded as dead since 1961.
The public was made aware that the Bowes-Lyon cousins had been alive and residing at the Royal Earlswood after Nerissa Bowes-Lyon passed away in 1986. Her grave close to the hospital was found by reporters which was a plastic marker with her name and a serial number, but evidently, an unknown donor paid for a proper gravestone after the news broke.
The discovery that two royal cousins lived that way in secret would have been a scandal for Buckingham Palace, and it was suggested that the Queen knew about Nerissa and Katherine’s situation, but that it was a matter for the immediate Bowes-Lyon family.
But there were three more of the Queen’s cousins that had also been placed in the Royal Earlswood, which made headlines in 1987, and it was reported that the daughters of Harriet Fane, Katherine and Nerissa’s mother Fenella’s sister, had committed her three daughters Edonia Elizabeth, Rosemary Jean, and Etheldreda Flavia Fane on the very same day indicating the two sisters made a collective conclusion about what to do with their children.
Genealogists said that all five may have shared a genetic imperfection handed down by the 21st Baron Clinton, and not the Royal Family, but madness, bastardy and divorce are the three skeletons that rattle loudest in the royal cupboard, and it appears to be the Royalty’s unspoken fear.
And if skeletons are clanging about the Royal household, which I’m sure there are many, then Prince Harry’s going to have a field day with whatever he knows, and he’s not going to be silent about it!
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