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02584aam a2200349Ki 4500 001 4832F25A780011EBB85B79874CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210226010012 008 201206t20212021meu ed 000 1 eng 020 $a 1432879294 020 $a 9781432879297 040 $a AUTNL $b eng $e rda $c AUTNL $d LX# $d SILO 100 1 $a Holden, Wendy, $e author. 245 14 $a The royal governess / $c Wendy Holden. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 696 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a 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. 600 00 $a Elizabeth $b II, $c Queen of Great Britain, $d 1926- $x Childhood and youth $v Fiction. 600 00 $a Margaret, $c Princess, Countess of Snowdon, $d 1930-2002 $x Childhood and youth $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Crawford, Marion, $d 1909-1988 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Princesses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Royal governesses $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022629.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20210226010144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4832F25A780011EBB85B79874CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b LX#Initiate Another SILO Locator Search