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The Little Princesses reveal the touching and ground-breaking stories of the Queen and Princess Margaret’s childhoods told by their nanny, Marion Crawford.
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 and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, The Little Princesses was published in 1950 to a furore we cannot imagine today.
With a foreword by former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond.
Not Utterly Oyster
I first picked up Marion Crawford’s The Little Princesses (1950) a few years ago, when I was preparing for a television documentary on the early life of Queen Elizabeth II. Even then, reading in a...
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