ALS signed “Elizabeth,” four pages, 4.75 x 7.5, Balmoral Castle letterhead, October 4, 1950. Handwritten letter to her midwife, Helen Rowe, whom she calls “Rowie,” in full: “Thank you so much for your letter. We are all getting on very well up here and I am feeling very much stronger already. It was lovely to be on the hill again the second day I was here, but the third day the jeep which takes one everywhere over the ground missed picking me up and I had to walk down to the road, with the result that I strained my knee on something, which has been very effective in keeping me within bounds! However, the air is so good that I feel better every day and though I still go to sleep in the afternoon, I don’t do it so often now.
Charles is getting fatter as he has an enormous appetite and takes a great deal of exercise. I find it extremely difficult to explain it away when he looks at something he can’t reach and then turns his back meaningly on me and says ‘Mummy, lift!’ He enjoyed the train journey far more than Anne, who wasn’t too keen on the rattling to begin with, but she has steadily been putting on weight up here and has got lovely pink cheeks after she has been out. The sugar in her foods is gradually going up, and she doesn’t seem to be nearly so ravenous, often sleeping right up to bottle time.
The children’s grandmother is spoiling her eldest quite openly and will do so with Anne if she got a chance! Bobo is back from her holiday but is just as thin! Hoping to see you at the christening.” In fine condition. Margaret “Bobo” MacDonald (1904-1993) was the nanny and dresser to Queen Elizabeth II. A wonderful letter from the princess, touching on the health of her two young children: Charles, a month shy of his second birthday, and Anne, who was only one month and 19 days old when this letter was written.
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