The Little Princesses: The extraordinary story of the Queen's childhood by her Nanny

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Crawford was born, the daughter of a mechanical engineer's clerk, at Gatehead, East Ayrshire, on 5 June 1909. [4] [5] She was raised in Dunfermline, Fife and taught at Edinburgh's Moray House Institute. [6] While studying to become a child psychologist, she took a summer job as the governess for Lord Elgin's children. This led her to take a role in the household of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), as the Duchess was a distant relative of Lord Elgin. After one year the arrangement was made permanent. After a lonely period in exile and at least one suicide attempt, she ended her life in a house the Royals passed en-route to Balmoral. They never stopped. Even today, among the Royal Family, ‘to do a Crawfie’ is to commit an act of dreadful treachery. When The Little Princesses was published in 1950, the Royal Family regarded it as tantamount to treason. Never before had anyone dared reveal such intimate and candid details of the Windsors’ private lives.

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When Crawfie died in 1988, not a single Royal flower was sent to her funeral. Her book, once so notorious, had long been forgotten. a b c Vanessa Thorpe (25 June 2000). "Queen Mother was 'ruthless' to royal nanny". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 June 2013.Matthew Perry was sober and had been very active in Alcoholics Anonymous program in the lead up to his death, source reveals As part of the preparation for the movie, great pains were taken to make sure every aspect of it was true to 1899 and England, the time period and setting of the story. Props such as the doll had to be to the exact specifications of a doll made at that time. Clothing also had to be precise. Production was held up after it was discovered that one of the costumes Temple wore used snap fasteners that were not invented until 1908. [8]

Crawford's unauthorised work was published in Woman's Own in the UK and in the Ladies' Home Journal in the United States, becoming a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. A book, The Little Princesses, also sold exceptionally well. Later she wrote stories about Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. She also put her name to Woman's Own 's "Crawfie's Column", a social diary written by journalists several weeks in advance.

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