Word: earlswood
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...Peerage, a leading directory of the British aristocracy, actually spent decades as patients in a Surrey mental hospital; one still survives there. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of the five children of the Queen Mother's brother John, and both severely retarded, were admitted to the Royal Earlswood hospital in 1941. Though Burke's lists the two women as having died in 1940 and 1961, respectively, Nerissa died only last year, at the age of 67, and Katherine, 60, lives in a seven-bed ward at the hospital...
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