When Margaret goes to speak to her mother about this, it is revealed that the Queen Mother was aware of situation and had kept it a secret from her daughters for their entire lives. Margaret drives her friend Dazzle to the psychiatric hospital where the sisters live, has him go in undercover to meet her cousins, and discovers that they (and several other more distant relatives - named Idonea, Etheldreda, and Rosemary) had been in the mental hospital back in the 1940s. She checks the Burke’s peerage records with her sister, the Queen, and they find that both cousins were listed as deceased. The story according to the Crown: During her first therapy session, Princess Margaret finds out that she has two mentally disabled cousins - Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon. If you’d like to find photographs of them, you can easily Google them and find them elsewhere. I have chosen not to include pictures of Nerissa or Katherine Bowles-Lyon here in this blog post, as it does not seem that they were capable of consenting to photographs. Obviously the show is a drama, and people who watch it should realize that without being explicitly told that the series is not a documentary, but I personally think The Crown went too far in this episode. This characterization does not conform with actual historical evidence, but ends the episode with pictures and birth and death dates of both of the actual women discussed here, implying that it IS the true story. Early reviews called out the inflammatory plotline of this episode, which blames the Queen Mother for her mentally disabled nieces being put in a hospital and hidden from their family. To be totally honest, I’ve been dreading blogging about this specific episode since before the season even dropped on Netflix.
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