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Holden, Wendy.
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Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Crawford, Marion, 1909-1988 -- Fiction.
Princesses -- Fiction.
Royal governesses -- Fiction.
Governesses -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
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Holden, Wendy.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Crawford, Marion, 1909-1988 -- Fiction.
Princesses -- Fiction.
Royal governesses -- Fiction.
Governesses -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
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The
royal
governess
: a
novel
of
Queen
Elizabeth
II
's
childhood
/ Wendy Holden.
by
Holden, Wendy.
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020.
Call #:
LP FICTION HOL
Subjects
Elizabeth
II
,
Queen
of Great Britain, 1926-2022 --
Childhood
and youth -- Fiction.
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002 --
Childhood
and youth -- Fiction.
Crawford, Marion, 1909-1988 -- Fiction.
Princesses -- Fiction.
Royal
governesses -- Fiction.
Governesses -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432879297 (large print hc)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
669 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Thorndike Press large print basic.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references in acknowledgments.
Summary:
"In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses
Elizabeth
and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths and on joyful Christmas shopping trips at Woolworth'
s
. From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses twentieth-century history's most seismic events. The trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War
II
. She steers the little girls through it all, as close as a mother. During Britain'
s
darkest hour, as Hitler'
s
planes fly over Windsor, she shelters her charges in the castle dungeons (not far from where the Crown Jewels are hidden in a biscuit tin). Afterwards, she is present when
Elizabeth
first sets eyes on Philip. But being beloved confidante to the Windsors comes at huge personal cost. Marriage, children, her own views -- all are compromised by proximity to
royal
glory. In this majestic story of love, sacrifice and allegiance, bestselling novelist Holden shines a captivating light into the years before
Queen
Elizabeth
II
took the throne."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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