I had wanted to review this for a long time and I found this is in an National Trust second hand book shop
This was written with tact, taste and in a different time.
The reader is saddened to think that the royal nanny was shunned by the royal family. I do believe she thought she was writing this with permission- why do I think that- during the war and the threat of invasion it is widely know that Elizabeth and Margaret lived at Windsor and there are some accounts that after a day in the East End - the king and Queen stayed at Windsor also- they would have wanted to be together if they needed to make a quick getaway.
The reader gains insight into the lives- but only just and written with a cosiness and professionalism- this was not intended to give away secrets or show the royal family in a different light- this was a member of staff who loved the family and I believed they did too, even Queen Mary confided in the nanny.
It is a beautiful book and looking at this now knowing of kiss and tell stories, royal family members airing their laundry in public, this has innocence written all over it.
Why this back fired on the nanny one will probably never know, and why she was so cruelly shunned.
The irony was on her death, she sent back all the letters she received - showing a devotion to the end.
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