Simon Bowes-Lyon
{{Short description|First cousin of Queen Elizabeth II}}
{{for|the current Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne|Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name = Simon Bowes-Lyon
| honorific_suffix = KCVO
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|6|17|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| spouse = {{marriage|Caroline Pike|11 April 1966}}
| children = 4
| parents = David Bowes-Lyon
Rachel Spender-Clay
| office = High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
| term_start = 1975
| term_end = 1975
| monarch = Elizabeth II
| primeminister = Harold Wilson
| viceprimeminister =
| predecessor = Thomas Edward, Baron Dimsdale
| successor = Peter Compton Hamilton-Spencer-Smith
| office2 = Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
| term_start2 = 1986
| term_end2 = 2007
| monarch2 = Elizabeth II
| primeminister2 = Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
| viceprimeminister2 =
| predecessor2 = Sir George Burns
| successor2 = The Countess of Verulam
}}
Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO}} (born 17 June 1932) is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and was Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1986 to 2007. He was created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/5841/Simon+Alexander.aspx|title=Sir Simon Bowes Lyon, KCVO |publisher=Debrett's|accessdate=14 November 2012}}
Early life
He was born in 1932, the son of Sir David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), who also served as Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, and Rachel Pauline Spender-Clay (1907–1996), younger daughter of Herbert Spender-Clay. Through his father, he is a member of the Bowes-Lyon family, and through his mother, the Astor family.
Personal life
On 11 April 1966, he married Caroline Mary Victoria Pike (b. 1940), daughter of Rt. Rev. Victor Joseph Pike, and they have four children:
- Rosemary Pema "Rosie" Bowes-Lyon (b. 1968), who married Nicholas David Kirkland Glazebrook in 1996; they have three children.
- Fergus Alexander Bowes-Lyon (b. 1970), who married Frances Margaret Anne Harris in 2000; they have two children.
- David Victor Bowes-Lyon (b. 1973), who married Jennifer Hurst (b. 1977) in 2002; they have one son.
- Andrew Simon Bowes-Lyon (b. 1979), who married Melanie Fletcher in 2012; they have three daughters.
Sir Simon Bowes-Lyon currently resides in St Paul's Walden Bury.{{cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p231.htm#i2304|title=Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon|publisher=ThePeerage.com|accessdate=14 November 2012}}
See also
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Category:High sheriffs of Hertfordshire
Category:Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Category:Lord-lieutenants of Hertfordshire
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