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Editore: Atria Books 2021-05-04, New York, 2021
ISBN 10: 1982169176ISBN 13: 9781982169176
Da: Blackwell's, London, Regno Unito
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hardback. Condizione: New. Language: eng.
Editore: Hodder and Stoughton / Hachette, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 152932808XISBN 13: 9781529328080
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket photo Getty Images, endpapers by the author (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 342pp, illustrated. 'The Windsor Diaries' are the never before seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard (1923-2001), who in a fairer world might have inherited the Dukedom of Norfolk. She lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live with her grandfather, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. There Alathea found the affection and harmony she craved as she became a close friend of the two princesses, visiting them often at Windsor Castle, enjoying parties, balls, cinema evenings, picnics and celebrations with the Royal Family and other members of the Court. Alathea's diary became her constant companion during these years as day by day she recorded every intimate detail of life with the young Princesses, often with their governess Crawfie, or with the King and Queen. Written from the ages of sixteen to twenty-two, she captures the tight knit, happy bonds between the Royal Family, as well as the aspirations and anxieties, sometimes extreme, of her own teenage mind. These unique diaries give us a bird's eye view of Royal wartime life with all of Alathea's honest, yet affectionate judgments and observations, as well as a candid and vivid portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth, known to Alathea as 'Lilibet', a warm, self contained girl, already falling for her handsome prince Philip, and facing her ultimate destiny, the Crown. Isabella Naylor-Ward is Alathea's niece in law, and was left her diaries. Quite a scarce book.