Marion Crawford was the governess of the Queen and her younger sister Princess Margaret, and was affectionately called "Crawfie".Įager to give the royal princesses a taste of normal life, she is said to have taken them to the likes of London Zoo and for a ride on the London Underground. Upon her retirement, she was gifted a lifelong grace-and-favour home in Windsor Great Park, reportedly thanks to Prince Charles.Īnd she is reportedly part of the Queen's inner circle now the monarch is spending most of her time at Windsor Castle.Ī source told the Sunday Times : "The Queen rings her up sometimes and Mabel goes and watches television with her. Her Majesty is said to have liked her unassuming manner and she looked after all of the Queen's children - and even helped out Princess Anne after the birth of her son Peter Phillips. Scottish-born Mabel was just 22 when she was employed by the Queen to look after Prince Charles - despite having no formal training. "There they are treated like little princes - here they are treated like ordinary boys," she said. "After one particularly fraught Christmas at Sandringham, she complained to the Highgrove staff about the way Diana had spent most of the time in tears, leaving William and Harry to be thoroughly spoilt by the Queen's staff. They did not always correspond with what they were used to and she had no compunctions about criticising the way the princes were being brought up. "Jessie had firm ideas about how the boys should be treated. Great fun and very outspoken, Jessie had few qualms about telling off Prince Charles when he revved up William and Harry just as she had got them settled for the night. "Growing boys, she claimed, need meat and potatoes, not pasta and vegetables. Love the royals? Sign up for the Mirror's daily newsletter to get all the latest news on the Queen, Charles, Kate, Wills, Meghan, Harry and the rest of The Firm. "She was convinced he was too thin and needed feeding up and would fill the nursery fridge with sausages, buns, bacon and doughnuts, making the chefs feel guilty. "Charles and Diana were hardly speaking during that summer of 1990 and in the autumn William started at his prep school, Ludgrove, leaving Jessie with only Harry to care for. "Jessie, with her outspoken cockney normality and no-nonsense approach, was the ideal person to bring a bit of cheer into the household, which indeed she did. Her predecessor Ruth Wallace had found the atmosphere too difficult and given her notice. Royal expert Ingrid Seward previously told the Mirror: "When Jessie started working as a nanny to Prince William the Wales's marriage was unravelling at a rapid pace. Her appointment came as William was about to start Ludgrove Prep School at the age of seven. Taking this fully into account and the passionate views of some of the inn’s customers the owner has decided to no longer allow any future hunt at Jamaica Inn.Jessie first started caring for William and Harry in the early 1990s - at a time when Charles and Diana's marriage was quickly unravelling. "However, last Saturday the local hunt invited the Beaufort Hunt to join their usual modest gathering which the owner sees as extremely ill advised. He has never personally hunted or even shot before. "It was something the current owner, Allen Jackson, was not comfortable breaking as he saw himself as a ‘temporary custodian’ and not for him to make such a decision. The Jamaica Inn's statement read: "In the past the Inn’s position on hunting has always been clear – not supported other than to allow hunts to start from the inn because of the one hundred year tradition of doing so. On Monday, March 14, Jamaica Inn owner Allen Jackson announced that he was banning hunts from meeting at his pub. In 1992, The Sun published a recorded phone call between Diana and her close friend. The Prince of Wales is even said to have purchased his county home Highgrove to be close to the hunt and the polo clubs. The Crown skips over a second phone call scandal the plagued the royal family around the same time. It shows Prince Charles, his sons' nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Prince William and Prince Harry take part in the Beaufort hunt in Malmesbury. The picture above was taken in March 1997. Read more: New parking cameras and signs spark fury It has often been described as Prince Charles' favourite hunt and he and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry were also pictured with the group in the past. The earliest records of this hunt date back to 1640, Bristol Live reports. It is one of the largest and oldest hunts in the country and Royals have joined them in the past. The hunt, based in Gloucestershire, visited the pub and Bodmin Moor on the invitation of East Cornwall hunt on Saturday, March 12. The Beaufort hunt, one of the last hunts to have visited the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall before it banned hunts from meeting there, is said to be Prince Charles' favourite.
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