In fact, the deal was brokered with the Palace by the Foreign Office, who believed the magazine articles would be good for Anglo-American relations.Ĭhildless and separated in later life from the famous sisters she had cared for, Crawfie attempted to commit suicide twice, nearly succeeding in the late Eighties. The revelations came to light as a result of research carried out for a Channel 4 documentary and have been criticised this weekend by Lord St John of Fawsley, the royal commentator, as a 'strange kind of birthday present' for the Queen Mother, who will be 100 on 4 August.Ĭrawford, or 'Crawfie' as the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret both knew her, was an intimate companion of the royal family for 17 years, but was ostracised for supposedly selling her story to the press without the permission of her former employers. Now held by Crawford's solicitor, the private papers show that the Queen Mother was secretly involved in a government plan to sell anecdotes about her daughters' childhood to an American magazine - a publicity stunt for which the nanny was pilloried for the rest of her life.
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