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Their names were Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon. They were kept in the Royal Earlswood Hospital, formerly known as "The Asylum for Idiots". Burke's Peerage listed them both as deceased in the 1940s but Nerissa died in 1996 and Katherine died in 2014.
The hospital had no record of any visit from the family during the time the sisters were there, and they never received a birthday or Christmas card. They also received no money beyond the £125 paid to the hospital per year.
Nerissa Bowes-Lyon was buried in a pauper's grave with a plastic marker and a serial number:
The family didn't even buy her a headstone until a Channel 4 documentary highlighted the sisters' story and showed the grave. None of her family had attended her funeral.
The Queen was reported to be "hugely distressed" by the airing of the documentary.
“Can I just say something in MY defense? We had to keep our disabled family members a secret, because then people might start to question whether my family has magic blood that makes us uniquely able to govern.”
Anonymous asked:
can you explain the internal patches more pls?? like how you do them?
get-punked answered:
hi, sure thing! here’s an example of one I’ve added to my pants in the crotch area:
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ALTon the left we have what it looks like on the inside, and on the right we have what it looks like on the outside. it’s pretty much just adding a patch like you normally would.
having the dual layers of patches on both sides provides additional strength to an area that tends to wear out extremely quickly (which in this case is the inner thighs)
I like to use a simple general sewing thread, doubled up, to sew these patches on so the stitches aren’t super visible from the outside, but that’s just personal preference.
