Královská guvernantka – Holdenová Wendy (2024)

She came from nowhere... and raised a queen. The young girl with a strong social conscience, Marion Crawford, who wholeheartedly wished to dedicate her life to the education and improvement of conditions for children from the impoverished Edinburgh slums, found her way through the winding paths of fate to the royal palace, becoming a governess and maternal figure for Queen Elizabeth II, then little Princess Lilibet, and her sister, Princess Margaret. The book takes us from the 1920s until Marion's death in 1987, and it is an adventurous, touching, joyful, hopeful, and sad journey. We experience the time when the princesses were little girls who marveled at the most ordinary things; we enter the war years with her, a time of fear and unrest, during which the attitudes of the royal family were shaped, itself troubled by internal issues. We follow the post-war years filled with bitter poverty and the effort to restore a thriving economy. On the pages of the book, we meet not only members of the royal family, whom we get to know through the eyes of a woman who spent ordinary days with them, but also other great names from British and world politics, fashion, and culture. Marion Crawford dedicated her best years, her loves, her career, her home... to serving the king and the country.