In the final scene of The Crown , Prince Philip tells the Queen: “The party is over.” “We are a dying breed, you and I,” he declares. “The system makes no.
Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, severely disabled cousins of the late Queen , were cared for in an asylum and listed as dead from 1963, even though they were very much alive.
The British royal family is a big one with aunts and uncles galore, so it should come as no surprise that the late monarch had quite a few cousins. So, who were Queen Elizabeth’s cousins, you ask? Well, we’d have to write a book to name them all (she had a whopping 31 first cousins!), but here’s a rundown of the most prominent among them. 1. Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy Express/Stringer/Getty ImagesPrincess Alexandra (born December 25, 1936) was Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin throu