Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

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Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon née Cavendish-Bentinck, (11 September 1862–23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother).

Nina was the daughter of Rev. Charles Cavendish-Bentinck and his wife, Caroline. On 16 July 1881, she married Hon. Claude Bowes-Lyon at Petersham, Surrey and they had ten children. Charles inherited his father's title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904, whereupon Nina became Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Nina died in 1938, aged 75 in London and was buried on 27 June 1938 at Glamis Castle.

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