The governess

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.WB : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Biographische und autobiographische Romane

Verfasser:
Holden, Wendy

Verfasser Angabe:
Wendy Holden

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Gouvernante
• Kind
• Elisabeth (Großbritannien, Königin, II.)
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Großbritannien
• Lehrerin

Verlag:
Welbeck publishing

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
424 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-7873-9660-9

Inhalt:
1933. Progressive young teacher Marion Crawford arrives as governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Home becomes a succession of royal palaces: Buckingham, Balmoral, Sandringham, Windsor. But 'Crafwie' son grows concerned at the girls' remoteness from real life. Determined to give her pupils a fun and normal childhood, she takes them on buses, swimming at public baths and Christmas shopping at Woolworths.

During her seventeen years at the heart of the royal family, Crawfie has a ringside seat at some of the most seismic events of the twentieth century. the drama of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the trauma of World War II. But her devotion and loyalty count for nothing when a perceived betrayal brings everything crashing down ...