Sent to stay with her grandfather at the historic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park at the start of the Second World War, Alathea Fitzalan Howard found the affection she so craved through her close friendship with the two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, her neighbours 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. 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.
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