Wendy Holden has written numerous books and is a celebrated journalist. She lives in England.
Her latest novel is
The Duchess.
At Lit Hib Holden tagged
five top books on Troublesome Women in the House of Windsor. One title on the list:
Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses
When this book fell off the shelf in a second-hand bookshop in the North of England, I picked it up to put it back. Then I opened it and read the first page in 
which Marion Crawford explains that she never intended to work for royalty; her interest was in the children of the Edinburgh slums. I was hooked right there and then and that was without even knowing she was with the King, Queen, and Princesses throughout the seismic events of the Abdication, Coronation, and the whole of World War II, all of which she saw exactly as they did. And yet the reward for her devotion was ostracism. It’s an utterly incredible story and one I made into my 2020 novel The Royal Governess.
Read about
another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
Wendy Holden has written numerous books and is a celebrated journalist. She lives in England.
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