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LYON connection to the Queen Mum
Posted by: Diana Gale Matthiesen	Date: June 15, 2000 at 00:54:19
In Reply to: Re: The Lyon Scottish Connection by Valerie Robbins	of 3095

Yes, the Queen Mum is, indeed, a LYON, as in BOWES-LYON, but she is a WINDSOR by marriage, not by birth. (WINDSOR is a made-up surname adopted by the royal family during the First World War to distance themselves from their German ancestry.)

You can trace the Queen Mum's line back even further than Patrick beginning at this web site:

http://dgmweb.net/Anna/FGS/GeorgeVI-ElizabethBowesLyon.htm

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Re: LYON connection to the Queen Mum Diana Gale Matthiesen 1/31/01

http://genforum.genealogy.com/lyon/messages/1033.html
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