According to her relatives, Mary, Dowager Countess of Strathmore, the late Queen’s cousin, passed away at home at the age of 92.
The countess was born Mary Pamela McCorquodale in 1932 and married Fergus Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother’s nephew and a direct descendant of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her family reported that she passed away on Monday at her house in Melrose, which is located on the Scottish border.
She and her late husband, who in 1972 was made the 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, had previously resided in Glamis Castle, Angus.
Queen Elizabeth and other royal guests, such as the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles at the time, frequently paid her a call there.
According to a family statement published by The Courier, she was’much loved’ by her family and community and a’marvellous role model’ to everyone.
It read: “They lived in The White House, Glamis for some of their early married life and continued to visit frequently from East Lothian where they lived while Fergus worked as a stockbroker in Edinburgh.”
The family ‘throwing themselves into life on the estate and in the greater Angus community’ after renovating the Castle between 1972 and 1975, the statement continued.
According to her relatives, Mary, Dowager Countess of Strathmore, the late Queen’s cousin, passed away at home at the age of 92.
The countess was born Mary Pamela McCorquodale in 1932 and married Fergus Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother’s nephew and a direct descendant of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her family reported that she passed away on Monday at her house in Melrose, which is located on the Scottish border.
She and her late husband, who in 1972 was made the 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, had previously resided in Glamis Castle, Angus.
Queen Elizabeth and other royal guests, such as the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles at the time, frequently paid her a call there.
According to a family statement published by The Courier, she was’much loved’ by her family and community and a’marvellous role model’ to everyone.