The Windsor Diaries: My Childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982169176)

The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard--who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom--provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family.

Like so many others in Great Britain, young Alathea Fitzalan Howard's life was turned upside down by the start of the Second World War. Sent to stay with her grandfather at the historic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Alathea found the affection she so craved through her close friendship with the two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and their parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, her neighbors at nearby Windsor Castle.

Together, the girls enjoyed parties, cinema evenings, picnics, and more, all recorded in honest and captivating detail in Alathea's diary, which she kept as a constant source of comfort. Day by day, from ages sixteen to twenty-two, she recorded the intimate details of her life with the Royal Family and the anxieties of wartime Britain. Now, published for the first time, these unique diaries unveil a candid and vivid portrait of the British Royal Family and of Princess Elizabeth in particular, the warm, quiet young girl who was already on her journey to her ultimate destiny: the Crown.

Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard
ISBN-10: 1982169176
ISBN-13: 9781982169176
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.70w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2020 pg. 63
Publishers Weekly 03/01/2021
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021
Library Journal 05/01/2021 pg. 77

About the Author
Alathea Fitzalan Howard was born in 1923 and spent the war years alongside the Royal Family at Windsor. She died in 2001.