The Real Crawfie: The story of Marion Crawford, the Queen's governess
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- How writing "The Little Princesses" ruined Crawfie's relationship with the Royal Family.
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Her whole entire life was about about the little girls she raised. How horrific! Rest in joy, lovely lady.
I could never warm to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. There was always something so manufactured and pretentious about her. She was an empty woman who filled her life with airs and graces. Quite cold and repugnant actually. I'm not surprised there was no Christmas card or funeral wreath. Her self-aggrandizing narcissism left no room for common decency. Poor Crawfie. She loved not wisely but too well. 😢
My sympathies until she took her husband's side and not her niece's claims he was molesting her. I mean why wld she lie? To me, that's all she was wrong in.
@@kimmccabe1422 Totally agree, that was a detestable thing for her to do, even though the times were very different and such things were always swept under the rug. I think she was terrified of being alone, and had become rather child-like under her husbands authority. Still no excuse, of course. 🤍🙏🕊
Glad Marion Crawford earned enough money from her book to buy a house.
Makes you wonder what her bank manager husband di with his earnings doesn't it?
The Little Princesses was a cherished book in my childhood. I loved reading about The Queen and her family. Crawfie told a very respectable story, and I have never understood the lack of forgiveness from The Queen who was so concerned with forgiveness as a Christian. It is my main question in her lifetime of devoted service. I think Crawfie deserved much better from the Royal Family.
Queen Mother had a nasty vindictive attitude.
She was behind all troubles in the RF.
Oh common people, she was a betrayer got it, once a traitor always traitor no forgiveness
It was the same with me, regarding that book. But then, when I found out the background, I wouldn't have it on my shelf. She should've been grateful for the grace-and-favor house, and she should've been more suspect at the way her husband acted at the time of her wedding, trying to put pressure on her to have the royal family move their accounts to his bank.
She broke the rules for money. If I was part of that family I would be unforgiving too. It was about money, Crawfie had no loyalty to them.
@@jillspence7227wow - let’s hope you never make a mistake then !!
The Queen mother was not the sweet old lady she was made out to be. Sometimes it appears that the loyalty the Royals expect from others is not always reciprocated.
Adolph Hitler said the queen mother was the most dangerous woman in Europe during the second world war..
I read the Queen mother really wanted to marry Edward, she had her sights on him, that's why she turned down marriage twice to George Vl
@@Incog23212 Yes and that's one of the main reasons she always hated Wallis Simpson
Loyalty doesn't come into the equations when your paid to do a job it has been written she was appreciated the Queen Mother didn't want her to leave thats it.I have employed people and when they leave that's it we don't forget they worked with me and if we met I'm interested in how they are going but I don't write or call or invite them to tea if you do that's your choice.
@@Incog23212It's so easy to bad mouth someone especially if you have no evidence to back it up, but it could be true and wouldn't the country have suffered since Edward (David) admired Hitler there are letters to prove this. He was a traitor just like Harry a reincarnation of his great Uncle. Just be grateful for the quiet times we had HLMTQ for 70 years an example to us all( to do your job and do it well )
It is an innocent enough book. I reccall "the nursery secrets" that Crawfie revealed were hardly earth-shattering. Both children were like all children, and had a bad habits. Crawfie laughed over the poor state of the royal palaces: “Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum. These historic places are so old, so tied up with tradition, that they are mostly dropping to bits.” At times, though, she crossed a line. She speculated on whether the king and queen were disappointed at not having a boy. She spoke of how embarrassed the king was when the girls showed him any affection: “He was not a demonstrative man, the Queen Elizabeth (daughter) took after him.”
This was painfully obvious in Elizabeth's interaction with people, and with her children as well.
German trait often being cold/aloof. People forget their German bloodline
Queen Elizabeth's reign was still in victorian style to a degree. One did not show emotions and did ones duty unstintingly whaterever the sacrifice by others may be.
@@philippacrowe8499 No german blood in Miss Elizabety Bowes Lyon
It was such a lovely book, which was very respectful. She thought permission had been given. The treatment of her was so cruel. Poor Crawfie ❤
Royal family is a strange/weird family. Their stories sound so emotionless. This story, the story of the queen mum's butler and of course the story of princes Diana. And many more.
That's how those snobby royals roll. People they deem "beneath" them mean nothing to them.
The British Royal Family was ruthless and unforgiving. It was an appalling episode.
@xenia367 she was given tentative approval to help someone with articles about
the children, but to keep her name out of it and not to write anything herself
that they would never have confidence in anyone again
but she wrote the book and she used her name and the book went further than the children, she'd written about the King's moods and the Queen's relationship with Wallis and they asked for those passages to be removed
she broke their trust for cash, so no l don't think they were cruel, she betrayed them just as harry did
@@lsmith9249
Well, the treatment still was way too harsh and cruel. Her book was not rude nor unkind. It was written very respectfully.
Harry's book on the other hand was awful and revengeful. Plus, badly written. But, he's is still part of the family. He didn't get kicked out! 😒
Just because he's a royal...
What royals are they, anyway??? They stole the name, to make it theirs!! Nobody's a true royal in that reptilian family. 😓😔
The poor woman. I can't help but wonder if the Queen Mother was behind her being so badly treated as I have heard that she wasn't always the little sweet persona that she liked to portray.
Probably Philip , he was a narcissist and cold person.
My late friend was a cousin to Crawfie and always told me that Marion had been encouraged by the Queen mother to write the stories about the princesses. The QM was as hard as nails and not the sweet old lady that she was portrayed to be.
Yes. You could see it in her cold eyes.
I read the same. A very spiteful personality. Bitter & Mean, in fact.
As adults Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret should have gone to Crawfie to see how she was doing.
@@christina-yp6jy Yes indeed.
However the old gal Queen Mum lived for a century, and the sisters were probably waiting for her passing before going to see Crawfie.
Very sad!
@@nonosays what utter rubbish, she was only supposed to help with some articles about the children, our Queen Mum asked Marion Crawford not to use her name, not to sell articles and not to mention her or the King
and she did all of that
the Queen asked for all the passages that were about her and the King to be removed, but it was a huge betrayal and non of our royal family forgave that
@christina-yp6jy no offence but she betrayed the family
our Queen Mother gave her permission to help with some articles about the children, but the Queen asked her not to use her name, not to sell any articles
and not mention her or the King and she did all of that
and our late Queen was already an adult when the book came out, they asked for the passages about the King and Queen to be removed. but it was a huge betrayal, she had been trusted
Why, she betrayed the family, and their loyalties were always with the family.
@@jillspence7227 Holding on to past isn't something you should do either. QE was head of the Church of England. Aren't we all taught forgiveness.
This story fills me with sadness.
I've read the charming, harmless little book, THE LITTLE PRINCESSES, and consider it a fascinating and important piece of history.
For this Marion Crawford was shunned and cast into the outer darkness.
Not even a card at Christmas or a wreath at her funeral!
Marion Crawford delayed her marriage for years and made untold sacrifices for the Royal Family.
When I think of the filthy, hateful memoir SPARE by Prince Harry, who to this day has not had his title stripped for that act of betrayal, it really puts it in perspective.
Rest in peace, Crawfie!
That is how ruthless the British royal family can become. Forgiveness is not part of their vocabulary. They can commit a grave sin but they think they are always right because everybody is below them. They always think they are the representative of God on earth and they can do anything they want.
@@user-be9gr3wv3r Wow, Elizabeth 2 was the exact opposite of what you are describing. It was her mother who held grudges.
Sounds like you have one toward the Royal Family.
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@@nonosays she could have left the royal family and married, but stayed... sacrifices? Her choice too..the book, charming or not, was a break in confidentiality and out she went..just like Harry with his book. Neither one could ever be trusted again..sending a wreath? To what purpose?.
@@maryt2196 You obviously have never read THE LITTLE PRINCESSES, nor understand the facts, such as the Queen giving her blessing to Marion on the initial writing of articles.
It was signing her name the Queen objected to, but the magazine wouldn't publish without authorship.
Yes, Marion practically raised Elizabeth and Margaret and served her country doing so, even in wartime.
The Queen should have forgiven her, as no harm was actually done.
Sadly, she never did.
I adored this book; the outcome, for me, was a sincere affection for the Royal Family, especially Elizabeth, who would eventually be Queen.
It is heartbreaking to find out that Marion was duped or mislead in anyway, that ultimately cost her personal contact with the princesses.
I had no idea The Queen Mother could be so manipulative and hard hearted-teaching her children to reject (forever) someone they loved.
It’s all very shameful and despicable…
She never taught them to reject someone they loved. Rather, she taught them about whom to trust and whom to not.
I agree, shameful, perhaps Harry was right after all about the cold heartedness in the family.
@@hiwall4883 no comparison really, what Harry has done is hateful maybe he has more of his Great Grandmother in him than we knew until now
Try to find other documentaries about the Royals back then. The Queen Mother was very cold and unforgiving and an out and out snob… apparently.
@@angelaglanville9377 Well, she despised Wallis Simpson, so I agree with her there.
This program was very well done.
Please post more!
I'm sad for Crawfie. She stayed with the girls during the war, and they asked her to cooperate with writing this.
She was told to postpone her own life, and marriage by the QM.
Very shameful treatment!
She choose to postpone her own life the queen did not force her If she had really wanted to go no one could have stopped her
she could have just handed in her notice and left.
Perhaps the royals should treat their employees with the respect and grace they expect and offer decent retirement settlement for loyal service.
I think one did not cross the Queen Mother, as she later was: once she put the cross on you, that was it, no Christian forgiveness possible. Courtiers at that time were not expected to have private or family life: many were underpaid, overworked and expected to be constantly on call. That said, It would appear that the late Queen was far more considerate in that sense and not given to the same extravagant lifestyle as her mother.
The habits of 1000 years are hard to change. Their servants are peasants to them.
How much loyalty and respect do you get from your employer?
@pamelacorbett8774 actually quite a few of the courtiers were wealthy men from aristocratic families. Servants were low paid but the honor of serving made up for it, I guess. Also it appears that royal servants were if not exempt from the law, not suffering consequences (some were gay and that was illegal in Britain until maybe the 1960s. Oh, and I totally agree with your characterization of the Queen Mother.
Employees CHOOSE to work for the RF knowing the conditions of employment. If they don't like it they can leave, like any other employee!
Bless her broken heart 💔 She truly meant no harm . She really deserved better treatment.
It was all about the money. She betrayed them for money.
She didn’t make enough from her job to buy a house back then!?
@@jillspence7227 she did not betray them for money she was encouraged by the QM to write the stories.
@@oliveranikolich5317 her husband was a bank manager so reasonably well off.
The British Royal Family have a strong ruthless streak within them.
Exactly, and this cruel ruthlessness was applied not only to employees but even members of their own family, with people hidden in disabled institutions, or separated like Prince John who suffered from epilepsy, and the late Queen's deaf mother-in-law who was 'an embarrassment', etc. - the list is very long. The personalised demonization and refusal to forgive within the family of the late Duke and Duchess of Windsor is shocking.
Their ruthlessness reveals a certain "lovelessness" within the family. An inability to accept and to forgive each other, as loving families do. Prince Harry is the current victim.
@@theon9575 Prince John got a very sweet deal running his own farm. But they are ruthless.
@@AnnaBellaChannel This may sound like a "sweet deal" but, after working some decades myself with disabled children and their families professionally, I can tell you that there is nothing that a disabled child like Prince John needs more than the daily, consistent love and support of his/her mother and father. That's not just sweet, it's priceless.
@@theon9575 Charlotte Jane "Lala" Bill (9 December 1875 - 13 December 1964) was an English nanny to the children of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary. She was most closely involved with the couple's youngest child, Prince John, whom she nursed devotedly from 1905 until his death in 1919. Johnny loved her and She loved him. Prince John was well loved by everyone living on Sandringham Estate where his farm was.
@@AnnaBellaChannel Yes, but I'm talking about the child's actual mother, not a nanny who is paid to provide a substitute, or the other people who knew and loved him in his daily life.
A real understanding of, and commitment to, the importance of this did not seem to show up in this cold family until Princess Diana and now Princess Katherine, both of whom prioritised their mothering role.
In this way, those 2 women are ensuring the normal, stable and happy development of future kings and queens.
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." A paid nanny is no substitute.
I blame the Queen Mother. And it's so very easy to do so. She was a malevolent force.
Her husband has some blame himelf
she betrayed the family, would you like it if someone wrote or talked about your family, she was trusted and our Queen Mother was not a malevolent force
Sounds like queen mother’s second hand man, someone called Billie, someone very close to the queen mother. He was also pushed aside as he was no longer needed.
Marion’s book was lovely and very respectful. The Queen Mother could have stopped publication or warned, Marion, of the banishment to be imposed if she did.
I don’t believe, Marion, would willingly forfeit a loving relationship with the princesses over a book.
Good to know the Queen Mother is above GOD’S LAW to forgive ‼️
@@lsmith9249 She was - she was the classic see you next tuesday
Queen Elizabeth couldn’t even see that this woman give up her child bearing years for her
Poor Crawfie, how badly the RF treated her.
She was told not to sell her stories and she did anyway, that was seen as a betrayal.
Yes they treated her awful 😢
“Know your place”. They treated non aristocracy like dirt. Charles and Andrew still do.
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree you really need to read/watch a lot more about King Charles before you judge. He bought a run down Dumphries Castle in Scotland and had it renovated, all at his own expense and then set it up as a kind of free school to get young people in the area taught trades, and help run it as a tourist attraction while they learn. A documentary about it is on YT, so maybe you should take a look. It was all paid for by the King including buying the castle itself, and is run by a trust to help these young people.
Thank you for this. It is such a very sad story. Such a pity the Royal Family couldn't have sent a simple wreath to Crawfie.
Makes me wonder what the Queen Mother would have made of Harrys shenanigans.
🙏❤
Or for that matter her daughter Margaret on her island of Mustique. Andrew? Charlie and Camilla?One law for them and another for the plebs.
@clairangier3322 marion crawford did a lot more, she was only supposed to help someone with a few about the children, she was asked to keep her name out of it
not to sell stories about the family and not to write anything herself
but she wrote the book, used her name and wrote stories about the family
she'd been asked not to sell stories
passages about were removed, but she had broken their trust
and she also had a column in a magazine
she betrayed them like harry
l couldn't have forgiven that either
and l don't think the Queen Mother would have left harry any money
@@lsmith9249I'm pretty sure her defenders wouldn't mind being betrayed by those they trusted.
@@summechummeQuite right!
“Shenanigans,” you mean Harry telling the truth about his trash family. I think you meant, what would she say about her Grandson Andrew and his “shenanigans.”
I read the book, and it was such a wonderful look at the princesses and the RF. I also felt bad for Marion Crawford for how she was treated.
I feel bad for the RF for being betrayed for money!
In her book, Marion Crawford described Queen Mother as a cold persona with cold blue eyes. She was right.
As a child I alwas read the Sunny Stories, which was run by Crawfie. In the middle were always beautiful photos of the children, later Charles and Anne, I loved those little books! And it was all Crawfie's doing and loving personality, sweet and warm.
I cannot believe that she was not respected by the "royal family" for all the love and care for the children! To me they are just people like all of us.
I read the book on the Little Princesses as a child and pre-teen. I adored it. It gave me a glimpse into their lives. I have loved Royalty all my life, and this book was a wonderful introduction to The British Monarchy. I am so very sorry for Crawfie and I hope that one day perhaps in some way, her reputation can be restored. She acted at the suggestion of the Queen Mother and she was very unkind to Crawfie who had hoped she would be pleased.
I have read the book it was lovely, nothing untoward.
What a sad, sad story. Rest in Peace now Crawfie.
The Queen Mother is known for having been selfish and drunk. Let's not forget she died with so many debts her legacy speaks of her awful personality and then you have queen elizabeth.Who for the life of me I cannot figure out why she didn't stand up for the woman who helped raise and educate her.This just speaks volumes of the family.
Yes you are 💯 right.
Her debts were paid by Elizabeth II.
Maybe she did in private
@@debbydouglas759 Yes, perhaps she did in private but couldn’t be seen to be going against her mother’s wishes in public, just a really sad situation for all concerned.
@@margaretbarnes2032 Ah common people she betrayed her her sister and her parents trust in the end please don't try to justify that pathetic greedy loser she got what she deserved and I can't blame the late queen Ifshe did not do anything for her
I think Queen Elizabeth II had the least education (compared to Queen Elizabeth I and Victoria) due completely to her mother. Just look at poor Margaret’s lack of education despite Margaret’s pleading for education. The Queen Mother (a title she invented for herself) was a piece of work.
I felt quite badly for Marion Crawford as I never felt that she disrespected the Royal Family and that she had basically good intentions when she wrote about them. I felt so bad for her, especially when in the recent past Prince Harry said some pretty awful things about his own family in his best selling memoir.
The ice queen mother lacked all personable traits. A cold humorless fish. Thank God catherine and wills will turn that reputation around.
Spending a day off work watching this, after I watched a documentary on “backstairs Billy”
Off to go find out who "backstairs Billy” is b/c that sounds hella interesting!
@ilovebeinagirl oh, he was a piece of work, but hated by some in Clarence House. It's an interesting look of those who work for the royals. Enjoy!
I planned to watch the video you mentioned after this one. I find these all so interesting.
SAME!!
Also gonna go looking for Backstairs Billie now!! 😊
It was all run by the Queen Mother. The Queen would never have gone against the Queen Mothers decision, as to not forgive a member of the inner staff. The Queen Mother was a bit of work, from what we’re leaning out about her years later. Let’s face it, every one of the royals, at some time or other have asked for the public’s forgiveness for things that have happened.
This is incredibly sad. The book would still be read with fondness today to another generation. It was respectful, it made the Royals more popular then ever. The public would have finally worked out who wrote it anyway. The Queen mother was not that nice women after all. Why didn't the late Queen evev send her a letter later on, just to see how she was.?
It was so sad and the treatment of her after the book was published was unnecessary and quite vindictive it was the Queen Mother who was the cause of this she certainly wasn't as sweet as it's made out if you what she believed wronged her watch out!
The QM was a nasty piece of work, a trait she has passed down to Andrew. I don't blame Harry and Meghan for staying away from it and living a carefree life in California.
@@catgladwell5684 let's not try to rewrite history, Harry and his wife wanted to be half in and half out of the Royal Family, they wished to remain as part time working royals so that they would make as much money as possible in the US merching off their titles, The late Queen would not permit this, so instead Harry and Markle have sold their lies about the Royal Family to fund their Californian lifestyle.
@@catgladwell5684if what you say about the QM is correct then if anyone inherited her genes it would be Harry. He must be the nastiest, spoiled human being I have ever witnessed sharing this planet. And that thing he married is a disgrace 💰💰💰 Remember “It never rains in California buy man it pours”!
nothing about that family surprises me...
At the bottom of so many murky problems lurks the old queen mother and her controlling manipulation of her daughters and the rf. I thought the anxiety and desperation of the young Elizabeth was clearly evidenced by the ocd she teetered on and the tipping ink over her head w as a real f*** this moment.
Disgraceful to have treated her like they did.Look at the dirt since.pure viciousness.
Yes but queen mum didn't do anything to secure his, backstairs billy, future after her death. Same with Victoria and her 'Indian servant'. Nope u r never friends with royals.
The moral of the story is that having friends from diverse backgrounds is essential, as it assures you have a support system to rely on. Being isolated and overly devoted to just a few people can be a dangerous trap. RIP Ms. Crawford. I feel for you.
Unfortunately when you work for a family, you are their employee, regardless if they are a royal family or not. It’s very easy - especially if you are with them a long time - to forget that, but you are NEVER part of their family - only ever an employee. I speak from experience here. You forget that at your peril. She broke the code - which was clearly spelt it by her employer - used her own name - when warned not to, and crossed that indefinable line. She made the choice, however innocently, and reaped the results.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as it were.
You are right when you work for a family royal or not you are their employee you are not part of the family that s it those were the rules but she wanted people to know her name and crossed the line look what happened to her
The queen's mother was not a nice person at all. She had a very dark energy about her which i could see!
She was no hipocrite she acknowledged herself that she was not nice maybe she did it as a warning to others not to mess up with her her children her family and the monarchy If you were discreet and loyal. everything was okay but if you crossed her you were finished
We already know the Queen mother could hold a grudge.
Queen Mother seemed to have been EVIL! That family is no good!
Manipulating innocents such as Crawfie was regarded as a fair game at that time. The Press were courted by those who gave instructions to write and sh e simply did what she was told to do at that time. To then blame her for that was just criminal and you cannot tell me that no one else knew about what had gone on.was chased and told to write her stories. It should have been very clear to those around her that she was coerced and she should never ever have been blamed for the stories and later book. Her journey was unfair and cruel and does nothing to make the royal family popular at all. She was told to do that and because she was told to tell her story, she did. Shame on the perpetrators of that crime for making her responsible for their faults. Her life was cruel and from that point and those at the top of the tree must have known all about that enforcement. If that had happened to me I should have made a huge fuss and definitely would have named names. It would never ever be covered up like that today. Karma is following those who harmed this gentle lady for the hell she endured due to her following instructions given.
As was brilliantly put in The Crown - ‘with this family when you’re in your never quite sure but when you’re out you’re definitely out’
Well don't mess up with them or betray them in anyway or form
I am pretty sure that the ones who are in know it and respect it, and the ones who are not know exactly why.
A sad story for all involved. That Crawfie was the first victim of the unrelenting press attention towards the royal family is so true. No one knew at that time how it would snowball but the family probably had an instinct that once the door was cracked open, nothing would keep the press and the public from invading their privacy in the most brutal way. One has to stop and imagine for a moment what it must be like to be constantly hounded by reporters, paparazzi and a public that feels entitled to be informed on things that regular people would never want to be told to strangers.
So true. Well said.
You can put yourself out in the media. How others choose to view it can be negative as well as positive. And you have no choice in which.
Especially when a few generations prior, British society was extremely reverential towards the monarchy and treated them with respect.
They had to make an example with her or everybody and their brother would invade brutally as you said their privacy and their secrets and they couldn't have that She broke the rules and reaped what she sow
I truly was surprised how heart less the Princess's were to Crawfie. Everyone makes mistakes even Queen Elizabeth had her share.
She genuinely loved the girls how could she not and then to be cut off.. So hard. Her heart was broken.
Queen mother was a viper. Look at Andrew & the rest of them now
Yes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
I can’t help but think how this “act of betrayal” pales in comparison to the Royal scandals of today.
Oh how dreadfully poor Crawfie was treated. Poor woman. God damned greedy shady publishers. Things are still the same.
What impeccable diction!
What Pilmott says is patently untrue! Marion Crawford was NOT the bulk of the late Queen's education. Princess Elizabeth, in contrast to Princess Margaret, was educated by a tutor from Eton -- for many years !!! And, as far as "women's education of that time" goes, my grandmother was a surgeon. She graduated in London in 1927. She was not alone. By 1920, one third of all college graduates were women. So please, let us stop this nonsense about women not being educated, even among the aristocracy. An English woman earned her PhD in Mathematics in 1896, yes EIGHTEEN ninety six. Let us please cease with clichées!
Bravo!
@@wraithconscience Marion Crawford goes into great detail about Elizabeth and her Eton tutor. There is certainly no attempt to mislead anybody on that point.
On the whole, they were the few women who well educated and the Queen was only educated on the British Constitution, even the QUEEN had mentioned her lack of advance education
@douglasmackenzie6395 so when did she learn all the languages ??? Apparently she was fluent in French German and Spanish could be even more.??
Your anecdote is a personal anecdote and does not reflect the truth at all.
How nice for you that you were extremely privileged and can speak for the aristocrats!
Just go away. You’re irrelevant.
I have this book. Loved it as a teen. Still love it now.
Very interesting and informative. I feel sorry for her
"The royal family would not get close to the staff again" Well that's a lie, what about that backdoor Billie (or whatever his name was) that was the queen mothers favourite,
The late Queen had favourites that sometimes irked the rest of the family.
Backstairs Billy - William Tallon
this is nothing compared to how Prince Harry has betrayed his family
No worse than what his parents did inwith the interviews did. The embarrassing phone calls of them speaking to their extra marital partners.
And just how did Harry betray his family? By telling the truth, and making a life for himself. GTHOOH. Go spew that rot, to Andrew and his friends. You know they are all such “ cosmopolitan people.” 🙄
Very true
He put his wife and children first, unlike his dishonorable father.
They seem to have moved on from it all, just ignore the twit now which is probably the only way.
The Queen had such a girlish quality about her, especially in her laughter and smile. I can see what Phillip saw in her.
She wasn't the beauty her sister was, but l believe she was a much better woman. She kept that beautiful and lovely smile all her life.
I am not surprised by how they treated her. You can see the way they treat their own “family “ through the years.
Then don't break confidence....
Exactly.
I read that the Queen Mother gave her agreement to the book.
IF she did not sign her name to it, if she got consent after the Queen approved it after it was written, did not profit from it, did not reveal personal things about the King and Queen. Crawfie ignored that all, signed the contract and took the money.
Listen to the video.
Diana suffered this kind of treatment and now Harry is treated the same way. Charles hated his father and was supported by the Queenmother in believing that he is a misunderstood genius a talented artist demanding to be called Sir by old friends and at liberty to do anything he wanted. They are users and feel entitled to take advantage. Sad but true.
@@magnacz You really should get more education on the truth about Diana and of Harry.
She was ambitious, used the press and could be very vindictive and histrionic.
Diana had many lovers and was at least 50% responsible for the breakdown of her marriage.
Harry has been out of control from day one and seems to have inherited only the dark traits of his mother and none of the grace.
He has behaved abominably to his family and to the British people.
Charles was a bit of a cissy, Philip wanted him toughened up.
@@francisheperi4180No excuse for cruelty.
@@francisheperi4180. Have you seen Edward? I believe he’s gay
@@nonosays. Yes Harry behaved abnormally from a toddler. If he wasn’t RF he would be in prison.
Princess Charlotte is very much like her great grandmother,the Queen when she was young!
She's the image of Sarah Chatto, Margaret's daughter.
Spitting image and manner!
It wasn't betrayal. Anyone who has read the book will see how lovely it is and how kind it is too to the Royal family
I read it and it could not have been sweeter
Think if the way queen mother treated prince Philip. She really was a hard nut. Queen Elizabeth did go and see her uncle edward her mother never did. I thought since queen did that she wld see crawfie but it wasn't to be. Crawfie gave up so much just to be ostracised.
The Queen could have chosen forgiveness at some level…but Crawfie was a scapegoat and needed to be made an example of - so that no one else would repeat her mistake.
Excellent video !!!!!😊🇬🇧
For a woman who was a "working class Scott" she had a very posh English accent.
I'm guessing her schooling & being around the Royals contributed to it.
Oh well, they certainly kicked her to the kirb in the end, after 17yrs of service & the Queen Mother "pinched" Crawfie from her previous employer, .... Hmmm 🤔 & pulling rank, no doubt, savage!
I think it’s important to remember that times change and attitudes change. By the standards of the day Marion Crawford’s revelations about the King and the future Queen Mother would have been shocking, and she didn’t have any sort of consent to write about them, so she actually did breach their trust, and in those days that was never going to be considered acceptable. In more recent years the late Queen gave Angela Kelly, her dresser, consent to write a book, but you can be sure it’s far more about clothes and what the late Queen wore than her personal life. For the time Crawfie overstepped the mark and there was never going to be any going back from that. The late Queen Mother was once described as having a drop of acid in the marshmallow, in other words she wasn’t as sickly sweet as she appeared, but I think she had every right to be upset that someone she’d trusted had let her down so badly. It seems to me that Crawfie was naive and assumed the press were on her side. She discovered far too late that they weren’t, and they still aren’t. All the press want is whatever sells copies.
She had a job. It ended. She didn’t know how to move on.
I expect they paid her a pittance
It's just a job, but I suppose they end up with the delusion that by virtue of their association with the Royal Family, they've actually become part of the Firm. Sad.
What about the queen mother’s side kick in her house. Kicked out of family’s protection.
You really have no idea of what you're talking about. If you want to impart some factual information in the form of details go and investigate it first. She had an employee called William Tallon who was with her for 30 years or more. He was an employee not a de facto partner or beloved cousin. He worked for her and no other employer during that time. When the Queen Mother died she obviously did not need his services any more and his employment expired. It is the norm that you serve "the Principal" and when they die your job ends. That's the contract ending. When the Queen Mother died Queen Elizabeth 2 visited William and sat on his bed for two hours talking with him. Prince Charles bought a flat in London for him to live in for the rest of his life rent free. Unfortunately he was not without faults and his retirement days were sometimes tumultuous and he brought shame on himself with excessive alcohol consumption. That was the choice he made in latter life.
Marion Crawford reminds me of Margaret Thatcher in her speech and mannerisms.
Shows another side that's for sure. Poor Crawfie so sad
Poor niece whose aunt didn't believe the husband was molesting her, so sad.
I think it’s just how things normally functioned back then. We might as well, by today’s standards, make a case that the Royals were deeply traumatised by the bombing of the Palace and nobody asked if they were okay. Different times, different customs. Things of the past have to be evaluated by the context of that particular time in history.
You are right Buckingham Palace was bombed NINE times during the war can you tell imagine what must have been like horrifying
The family is always to win and comes first. This author was a brush off of no concern to the family once gone. A paid employee, not to be mistaken as in the family. Just look at back stairs Billie, discarded even from his retirement apartment at the queen mums hime and his life was distroyed and he self destructed.
@@superdougie10 The Clarence House Lodge wasn't a retirement apartment but a working part of a Royal Residence which was going to be taken over by The Prince of Wales. Even members of The Royal Family change houses when they retire: The Queen Mother herself moved out of Buckingham Palace when she was widowed. Her former Page of the Backstairs was given the use of his partner's retirement apartment in Kennington, owned I think by the Prince of Wales's Duchy of Cornwall. If he took to loneliness and drink he was actually destroyed by hounding by the tabloid press.
Makes me feel more kindly towards Prince Harry. Raised in such a cold family after the loss of his warm and loving Mother.
Agreed. How THEY treated his mother, while living. Worse when she died.
Oh for Heaven's sake!!! Leave.Diana out of it! She was no saint and to my mind is greatly responsible for the pathetic behaviour of her youngest son.
Who among the regular people came to her aid?
I feel so very sorry for this lady. Her situation then was very dufferent from Diana and Harry. She didng choose the limelight. It chose her. Poor woman.
Dumbest comment ever. She didn’t choose the limelight? What did she expect writing a book about the royals? Yeah, what a way to stay out of the limelight.
@coricori7661 you're so polite! This was many years ago and she genuinely believed the Queen Mother had okayed it. She was stitched up in the contract and her husband was a vulture like the couple who wanted her to write it
Thank you for sharing this….
It’s always the case those who give most….hurt most…
Are taken forgranted….she was certainly miss led…
RIP Crowfie🥀🥀
The Queen Mother let the cat out of the bag asking her to help without adding her name, then the husband the Bank Manager took care of the contract .. however I don't believe she didn't know what she was doing as her personality is the sort she would have read through it .. unless she was entirely trusting of her husband who seemed money orientated having asked her to ask the Royal Family to change Banks!
People are quick to put down the royal family for cutting her off, for something she pretty much did purposely; yet she very unceremoniously abandoned her niece, a true victim. How could she have been that naive, when she said her husband protected her on one hand, but then on another hand, still felt she'd been blamed for everything, when there were others (specifically, as this program is suggesting, her husband), who played a part. One can't have it both ways. She did betray them.
and went on to betray her niece. Crawfie was not a nice person at all.
A breach of trust. All who work in the Royal Household are expected to remain silent about their service.
Now they have to, or the legal and financial punishments would destroy them.
@@jillspence7227 Good news! If I had someone working in my house, I would also expectthat they remain silent.
I guess the moral of the story is choose your employers carefully
No one making statements in this comment section has any personal knowledge of the Royal Family, past or present. Despite this, people are saying things like "The Queen Mother wasn't as nice as she was portrayed to be." How do you know this exactly? There is only one fact that we do know. If you work for the Royal Family, you do not *_under any circumstances_* speak about them publicly and most especially *_ever_* give information about them to the media. What Ms Crawford did was especially egregious because she was divulging private details about two children. Even if we subtract the royal element from this, these were children. Think about that for a minute.
There is no way that she didn't know that what she was doing was wrong. It was a complete betrayal, probably for money, of her trusted relationship with the Royal Family. Once they had been betrayed so dreadfully, there was no going back.
It is of interest to me how C4 managed to attack the Royal Family with such success. The (mostly women) trotted out as fact exactly what the anti-royal C4 wanted them to. The lack of independent thought or the use of the analytical and critical faculties of the brain was alarming.
Ms. Crawford was clearly not a stupid woman. She must have known exactly what she was doing and how wrong it was.
She had to take responsibility and face the consequences of her actions. Just as all adults have to.
I have a copy of the book and looking at it from modern day it is so tame but then she did agree to not publish or divulge any info on the rf. However the treatment of her afterwards shows u how hard the ' lovely queen mother' was. They drove past her house everytime they went to and from Balmoral and never stopped. However I never knew she thought she had been given permission. That is new to me.
Ive known nannies quickly erased from children's life even photas were slowly disappeared, to all intents n purposes the nanny was the parent in all but name
No. She breached confidentiality. It wasn't her story to tell.
The only snake was the Queen mother. Hated by many who knew her.😢
Pardon me for writing my input under your comment, I can’t seem to find the “option for comment section open!”
I wish to add, thank you Ruth Quartermaine for clarifying the matter. Wherever you are, fly high with the angels! 🕊️ ❤️ Xx
For everyone criticizing the Royal family... Apparently the Queen mother told Crawford not to speak about the family her decision to do so... And the royal family had every reason not to talk to her again
They are users...
@@geraldinekelly8447 who? The RF??...of course they are...all employees are...I have to keep confidential information to myself or I'd get the boot...
Very, very sad and unforgiving!!
Thay dreadful Womans Own editor seemed not to give a $hit about poor Crawfie. Witch with a B.
Exactly
I don’t blame the Royal Family for not ever writing, sending a card, etc. after that betrayal. My guess is that they feared Crawfie would sell those private missives just as she sold their family’s private moments. The far-reaching effects of Crawfie’s tell-all is that the press became ever more hungry for insider information after that.
But not even flowers or a card for her funeral, that's not for privacy, that's spiteful.
@@hiwall4883 that was sensible. just imagine how the press would have made a meal of that, and some relative would have let the press know, for money.
@jillspence7227 The press would have reported flowers were sent? So what? That's not an excuse at all.
So many questions.
What exactly ok-ed the QM in her letter: just one article?
Why didn’t Crawfie speak directly to the QM before signing that contract about a whole book? How could she be persuaded to do such a thing when she had to know it was almost certainly not welcomed by the RF? How could she be so stupid to send the book material to the USA without first making sure it was either ok with QM or at least what she herself wanted to happen?
Why didn’t she fight against newspaper columns being written under HER name?!?
I do not understand her behaviour. Was her husband asserting pressure or was she indeed so stupid or were they in such desperate need of money?
Most probably the husband! 🤔
When did she adopt that extraordinary sycophantic accent?!!😂
Being around the royal family who spoke like that
A bit extreme, even by their standards
The upper classes spoke like that at the time... I find interesting yet amusing... a dying breed.
English people spoke beautifully before mass 1mm1.gr@tion ruined our language.
@@francisheperi4180 What happened to her Scottish accent?
THE AFTER MATH
OF Ms. CAWLIE.....
SO DAMMMMMM
SAD..... SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE.
IN HER NAME ......
AS A MEMORIAL
TOO SUCH A
LOYAL LADY.....
WHO WAS
SOOOOOO
HUMAN.....SHE
WAS NOT PERFECT.......
THE QUEEN IS THE HEAD OF THE
CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.......YET
SHE FOUND THE
TIME TOO FORGIVE HER....
DUTY WEAK.....
UNREAL.......
BRAINLESS
UNCLE EDWARD...
DAVID.....
BUT NEVER THE
ONE WHO LOVED HER
AS A CHILD.....
MORE THAN MOST.......
MS. CAWLIE.....
TRULY MONSTERLY
APPALLING.....
I had read somewhere that Crawfie, was supposedly specifically told "Do NOT Write It". Or it was put to her that if she did write it, that "would lead to her downfall". So, taking that as a cue I don't understand how she could have misinterpreted any other meaning. I mean she was literally told 'don't write it' and she did it anyway !!! 😟😟
She had a husband who had her ear.
IMO - Considering some of the unpleasant insider information that has come out over the last 40 years concerning the royal family (including the Queen's grandson turning on his own relatives) it seems very cruel to treat the governess like this.
I think the governess did break trust no matter how it happened ,she was not a fool,she was also cable of harsh treatment of her own niece
The narrator's voice ❤
The Royals today are a mess because they were cruel to others.
Looked what happened to Dianna when she stepped out off line, they have no compassion it's true it gets run just like a military base👌
This was so very interesting. I inherited the book The Little Princesses in the 1970s from my grandmother, who adored the royal family.
Clearly Crawford was not to speak in the first person or to use her real name, and that’s exactly what she did. That showed a terrible lack of understanding. I can absolutely understand how betrayed they all felt. What a tragedy.
The Queen received a draft of the book-she could have stopped the publishing of the book, if it mattered that much to her.
Marion, was lead to believe that the Royal Family, though concerned with this venture, ultimately approved.
That this misunderstanding, cost Marion the love and affection of the princesses, was and is unacceptable-Royal or no !!
@@cherylbusch6236 No, Marion husband hid the fact the Queen Mother had strongly disapproved of the book, he tricked her into signing, and what he tried on with the niece shows us the kind of man he must have been
SHOCKING BEHAVIOR, Disgusting, absolutely atrocious. RIP
Not believing her niece was being molested by her husband, SHOCKING BEHAVIOUR, DISGUSTING, absolutely atrocious.