The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the Princesses'The Windsor Diaries' are the never before seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live with her grandfather, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. There Alathea found the affection and harmony she craved

And yet something about her story is deeply amiss

Lewis reveals the passionate

We are a nation in denial about our past and our present

It is the same every year

of their power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination

But then Billy made some bad headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while bringing down an angel-dusted berserker in the street

from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff

she writes letters to her four daughters

from the nadir of early 1942 to the great series of victories in 1944-5 and on to Indian independence

As the invisible threads that draw these two lives together are pulled ever tighter

the favourite and the lesser known

From tactics to teamwork