Shortly before boarded the aircraft which would take him to Kenya to help mark the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, the King received a piece of sad news.The Honourable Michael Albemarle Bowes Lyon - ‘Alby’ as he was affectionately known to friends and family - had passed away at the age of 83.His death means that today, only one of the late monarch’s 23 maternal cousins survives: 91-year-old Sir Simon Bowes Lyon, son of the ’s youngest brother, David.
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