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Lady Charlotte Finch, the royal governess, supervised the arrangements for this new addition to the royal nursery.
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses
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Her first Tube journey was in May 1939 as a 13-year-old princess, accompanied by her sister Princess Margaret and governess, Marion Crawford.
BBC: Queen and Catherine visit Baker Street Tube station
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John Rivers (Jamie Bell) and his family, and by playing, as powerful flashbacks, her harsh childhood as an orphan as well as her time as a governess at Thornfield.
WSJ: Jane Eyre, Mars Needs Moms and Red Riding Hood | Film Reviews by Joe Morgenstern
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Lady Charlotte and her deputy, or sub-governess, Mrs.
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses
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This focus on narrator-as-witness sharpens our involvement, so that when the governess spots Miss Jessel, her deceased predecessor, standing on the far bank of a pond, the space between the two figures collapses, making the contact more intimate than if the ghost whispered directly into her ear.
WSJ: Andrew Pyper, Author of The Demonologist, on Horror | Word Craft
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The unreliable narrator of the novel, a governess charged with caring for two children who may or may not see the ghosts she sees, invites the reader to flip-flop between thinking her a lone protector against unspeakable evil and a greater threat to the children than any spirit.
WSJ: Andrew Pyper, Author of The Demonologist, on Horror | Word Craft
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This was in 1919, when his father was Polish ambassador to the Court of St James, but the connection with Britain went back to his grandfather, who had served in the British army, and continued through the English governess who accompanied the family back to Poland and brought him up.
ECONOMIST: Memoirs