governess

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Marion Crawford, known as Crawfie, had been governess to the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House as a governess with a secret, which would be enough for many a novel set in Victorian England.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

Margot, whose name we have changed, was 19 when she responded to a job advertisement in The Lady magazine in 1985, for a position as a nanny and governess in Surrey.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

She worked as a governess in Paris and later converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 26.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Thoughts of that ilk galloped through her brain for quite some time—ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM—long after a tired governess ought to have been asleep.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood