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Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis in Angus, Scotland. It is the home of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is open to the public.
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne is a title in the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created as Earl of Kinghorne in Peerage of Scotland in 1606 for Patrick Lyon. In 1677, the designation of the earldom changed to "Strathmore and Kinghorne". A second earldom was bestowed on the 14th Earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937, leading to him being titled as the 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne,, 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.
Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne,, styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, was a British politician and soldier, and a second cousin, once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. He was usually known to family and friends as Mikey Strathmore.
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. Following the marriage in 1767 of the 9th Earl to rich heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family name was changed to Bowes by Act of Parliament. The 10th Earl changed the name to Lyon-Bowes and the 13th Earl, Claude, changed the order to Bowes-Lyon.
Clan Lyon is a Scottish clan.
Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th and 2nd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a British nobleman and peer. He was an uncle of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne was the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and maternal grandmother and godmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born John Lyon, was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II.
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, styled The Honourable Claude Bowes-Lyon from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is the paternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the eldest son of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. His mother was the author of the verse drama, "The Siege of Jerusalem" (1769).
Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the third son of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. His mother was the author of the verse drama, "The Siege of Jerusalem" (1769). He is the great-great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, styled Lord Glamis between 1834 and 1846, was a Scottish peer and cricketer.
Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon, 17th and 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a British nobleman and peer. He was a nephew of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and thus a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore was a Scottish peer and freemason.
Streatlam Castle was a Baroque stately home located near the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham, England, that was demolished in 1959. Owned by the Bowes-Lyon family, Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the house was one of the family's three principal seats, alongside Glamis Castle in Forfarshire, Scotland and Gibside, near Gateshead. Streatlam incorporated some 1,190 acres (4.8 km2) of land, along with an estate consisting of some twenty farms. The last occupant was Lord Glamis, who later became the 15th Earl, although the estate was owned by his father, the 14th Earl, at the time.
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis was an heir to the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He was the only son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. He is the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis was a daughter of Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Ewood Park and Merry Hall, and Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh. She was born at Leatherhead and died at Redbourn and was a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Simon Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 19th and 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, is a British peer. Styled as Lord Glamis between 1986 and 2016, he is the eldest son of The 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his first wife, Isobel Weatherall. In 2021, he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home, Glamis Castle.
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