The Windsor Diaries - A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

Informationen zum Autor Alathea Fitzalan Howard was born in 1923. Had she been a boy, she would eventually have become Duke of Norfolk, the head of England's leading Catholic aristocratic family, and Earl Marshal and inherited Arundel Castle. Her parents had separated and she was sent to live at Windsor with her grandfather during the Second World War. There, her constant companions were Princess Elizabeth, 13, and Margaret, 9, who were also being educated by governesses at home. Alathea's diaries begin on New Year's Eve 1939 and she continued to write them for the rest of her life. In 1953 she married Hon. Edward Ward whom she outlived. They settled in Lausanne. She died in 2001. Klappentext The never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Zusammenfassung The never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Alathea Fitzalan Howard, Alathea Fitzalan Howard
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2021
• EAN: 9781529328103
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-2810-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Second World War, Social and cultural history, Diaries, letters and journals