Well, there's not forgiving something, and then there's carrying on a vendetta. The Queen Mother was happy to let people publish stuff about the family as long as she had control of what was said; nobody (as far as I know) shut Mabell Airlie out in the cold for writing her book in the 1950s, which had some wonderful accounts of Queen Mary's life and thoughts.
Marion Crawford had devoted years to the princesses and had put off her own marriage until her 40s because it was never quite convenient for the royals that she should leave. I think I read somewhere that she was asked to write something for an American magazine and the Queen Mother was initially quite interested but then backed away.
That the Queen and Princess Margaret didn't even send flowers to her funeral was really sad.
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