This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933...
A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne.-- Woman\'s World Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown Childhood years of one of the world\'s most famous figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the spirited young governess who made her the icon we love today.
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..
Marriage, children, her own views: all are compromised by proximity to Royal glory.
But being beloved confidante to the Windsors comes at huge personal cost.
Afterwards, she is present when Elizabeth first sets eyes on Philip.
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).
She steers the little girls through it all, as close as a mother.
The trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War II.
From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses twentieth-century history\'s most seismic events.
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.
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.
In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.
This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933...
A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne.-- Woman\'s World Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown Childhood years of one of the world\'s most famous figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the spirited young governess who made her the icon we love today
