Comments on: The Queen Mother’s Rebel Cousin

By: sprite

sprite — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:31:08 +0000

fascinating story, pity it’s not more known

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:14:20 +0000

Thanks for this Roger. Fascinating. Her diary may emerge once the monarchy is abolished ….

By: Carolyn Hooper

Carolyn Hooper — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:56:02 +0000

Gentle author…..

Enormous thanks for bringing this woman’s brave life to us. This is a remarkable story to have shared with us, around the world.

“Crime’s worm is in ourselves……..” Humankind…….. so very good, and also so very ugly.

Carolyn

By: Naomi K McEneely

Naomi K McEneely — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:47:14 +0000

I would really like to read this biography. As I am in the states, I can download the book via Amazon UK. An thoughts on a way around this?

Many thanks,
Naomi

By: Margaret McDermott

Margaret McDermott — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:47:19 +0000

Incredible coincidence Have just been reading about her in William Plomers’s memoirs. A very unusual and gifted woman.

By: Severine

Severine — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:53:27 +0000

In the first picture of the Tilbury shelter by Rose Henriques, you can see the Harry Gosling Primary School building to the left. The building is still standing and was my primary school as a child.

By: monica emerich

monica emerich — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:24:59 +0000

I would like to suggest that perhaps Ms. Bowes Lyon suffered from what is now known as Reflexive Sympathetic Disorder, or RSD. This disease is brought on by a blow to a site on the body (commonly the legs) that, even in an otherwise healthy person, initiates a process whereby the nervous system begins to shut down in an attempt to save the limb (it commonly happens in a leg or arm initially). As the nerves shut down, causing excruciating pain, the flesh becomes gangrenous, often resulting in amputation. Another strange thing about RSD is that it “mirrors”–meaning it jumps to the complementary or parallel limb, as in the uninjured leg, and progresses similarly, with the nerve deterioration. We know now that many of the “ghost” complaints of pain from soldiers were likely due to RSD, although at the time, these men were thought to suffer psychiatric problems, even though it was clear in many cases that the flesh was indeed dying. RSD can be brought about by a hard hit that would, normally, simply cause bruising.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:21:48 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for sharing Roger Mills’ fascinating account of Lilian Bowes Lyon’s extraordinary life. Here’s hoping that one day her diary is found revealing her most intimate thoughts on the conditions that she witnessed in East London during WWII and beyond.

By: Adele Lester

Adele Lester — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:13:08 +0000

Fascinating article! Thanks GA.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:10:43 +0000

Sadly quite unknown, but evidently a worthwhile character undone by illness. Alas, alas!