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Born on 18 March 1918 in Teesdale, County Durham, he was the second son and third child of Patrick, Lord Glamis, and Lady Dorothy Osborne (1888–1946).His paternal grandparents were Claude, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, and his maternal grandfather was George, 10th Duke of Leeds.
Strathmore, then Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, married Mary Pamela McCorquodale (born 31 May 1932) at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 10 April 1956 in a ceremony attended by his cousin, the Queen. [3] They had three children: Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016) [4]
Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, DL (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016), styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, also known as Mikey Strathmore, was a British Conservative politician, Scots Guards officer and stockbroker. He was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.
Mary Cecilia Bowes-Lyon was born on 30 January 1932 at Gastlings, the Bowes-Lyon family home in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. [1] Her father, Michael Bowes-Lyon (1893–1953), was the fifth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Cavendish-Bentinck).
Lady Strathmore suffered a heart attack in April 1938 during the wedding of her granddaughter, Anne Bowes-Lyon (later Princess of Denmark), to Viscount Anson. [10] She died 8 weeks later at 38 Cumberland Mansions, near Bryanston Square in London, at the age of 75. Lady Strathmore outlived four of her ten children.
In 2017 Strathmore decided to renovate Glamis House, a property on his estate and a childhood home of the Queen Mother, for use as a self-catering holiday home. [9] From 2016 to 2018, he was a director of Ark Hill Wind Farm Ltd. [ 10 ] Strathmore is the chieftain of the Strathmore Highland Games, [ 11 ] which takes place annually in the grounds ...
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
Glamis Castle, situated beside the village of Glamis in Angus, Scotland, is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is open to the public. St Paul's Walden Bury is a stately home and surrounding gardens of the Bowes-Lyon family located in the village of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire , best known for its connection ...