Enter Marion Crawford, a twenty-four-year-old from Scotland who was promptly dubbed “Crawfie” by the young Elizabeth and who would stay with the family for sixteen years. They already had a nanny-a family retainer who had looked after their mother when she was a child-but it was time to add someone younger and livelier to the household. In the early thirties, the Duke and Duchess of York were looking for someone to educate their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, then five- and two-years-old.
The family moved to Buckingham Palace, and ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth became the heir to the crown she would ultimately wear for over fifty years.The Little Princesses shows us how it all began. Suddenly the little princesses’ father was King. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, “Uncle David” became King Edward VIII-who abdicated less than a year later to marry the scandalous Wallis Simpson. Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.
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