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The publication of The Little Princesses in 1950 marked a watershed as far as the Royal Family were concerned. For the first time a trusted insider had written a book about their daily lives, routines and relationships. Unlike much that came later, the tales told by Marion Crawford, the princesses' governess, are free of scandal and malice; she presents an affectionate and respectful picture of a close and loving family during a highly eventful period of their lives, from the early Thirties through the Abdication and Second World War to the late Forties, the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip and the birth of Prince Charles. However, as well as portraying unquestioningly lives full of privilege and duty, she reveals many details that the Royal Family regarded as an invasion of their privacy. She is, for example, particularly concerned about Princess Margaret's health and her wilful nature, quoting Princess Elizabeth's comment when her father has become King: 'I really don't know what we are going to do with Margaret.' Princess Elizabeth herself can be obsessively neat and tidy: 'We soon laughed her out of this', Crawfie remarks. Life in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, holidays in Balmoral and Sandringham are all described here charmingly and often perceptively, and Crawfie's sense of obligation and service led her to postpone her own marriage and so delay a chance of a personal life for herself. Whatever her intentions, Marion Crawford paid a high price in writing what she did. Although her achievement was to provide a very down-to-earth and normal upbringing for the two girls, and tame as her revelations may now seem, after the publication of this book the Royal Family never spoke to her again. This edition includes photographs and a foreword by Jennie Bond, long-time royal correspondent for the BBC. (Kirkus UK)
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In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap opera and it seems any one who comes into contact with them sells their story to the magazines or to the newspapers. Marion Crawford, 'Crawfie', as she was known to the Queen and Princess Margaret, became governess to the children of the Duke and Duchess of York in the early 1930s, little suspecting she was nurturing her future Queen. Beginning at the quiet family home in Piccadilly in the early 1930s and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, Crawfie tells how she brought the princesses up to be 'Royal' whilst also exposing them to the ordinary world of underground trains, buses and swimming lessons. THE LITTLE PRINCESSES was published in 1950 to a furore we cannot imagine today. Crawfie was demonised by the press, and the Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again.
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The publication of The Little Princesses in 1950 marked a watershed as far as the Royal Family were concerned. For the first time a trusted insider had written a book about their daily lives, routines and relationships. Unlike much that came later, the tales told by Marion Crawford, the princesses' governess, are free of scandal and malice; she presents an affectionate and respectful picture of a close and loving family during a highly eventful period of their lives, from the early Thirties through the Abdication and Second World War to the late Forties, the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip and the birth of Prince Charles. However, as well as portraying unquestioningly lives full of privilege and duty, she reveals many details that the Royal Family regarded as an invasion of their privacy. She is, for example, particularly concerned about Princess Margaret's health and her wilful nature, quoting Princess Elizabeth's comment when her father has become King: 'I really don't know what we are going to do with Margaret.' Princess Elizabeth herself can be obsessively neat and tidy: 'We soon laughed her out of this', Crawfie remarks. Life in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, holidays in Balmoral and Sandringham are all described here charmingly and often perceptively, and Crawfie's sense of obligation and service led her to postpone her own marriage and so delay a chance of a personal life for herself. Whatever her intentions, Marion Crawford paid a high price in writing what she did. Although her achievement was to provide a very down-to-earth and normal upbringing for the two girls, and tame as her revelations may now seem, after the publication of this book the Royal Family never spoke to her again. This edition includes photographs and a foreword by Jennie Bond, long-time royal correspondent for the BBC. (Kirkus UK)
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In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap opera and it seems any one who comes into contact with them sells their story to the magazines or to the newspapers. Marion Crawford, 'Crawfie', as she was known to the Queen and Princess Margaret, became governess to the children of the Duke and Duchess of York in the early 1930s, little suspecting she was nurturing her future Queen. Beginning at the quiet family home in Piccadilly in the early 1930s and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, Crawfie tells how she brought the princesses up to be 'Royal' whilst also exposing them to the ordinary world of underground trains, buses and swimming lessons. THE LITTLE PRINCESSES was published in 1950 to a furore we cannot imagine today. Crawfie was demonised by the press, and the Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again.
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