Princess Diana Banned Prince William and Prince Harry's Nanny From Ever Contacting Them Again
fired the princes' beloved nanny, Barbara"Baba" Barnes, believing her to be"too possessive" with the boys. Barnes was forbidden to say goodbye to the princes or otherwise contact them after her departure."So far as the boys were concerned, she just vanished into thin air," Lacey writes.
When Barnes was hired, the historian writes, she"stepped in firmly to assert control." One Kensington Palace staff member reflected,"Barbara guarded the nursery floor like the Vatican… It was her kingdom." Barnes, nicknamed"Baba" by William and Harry,"became something of a surrogate mother" to them as they spent an increasing amount of time in her care, with the nanny teaching them to"walk, talk and read.
Barnes also"comforted them when they awoke crying in the night," and went on to take the princes"away on their own “family” holiday without parents—to Scotland and the Isles of Scilly—where she set the agenda every day as any mother would." But according to Lacey,"less admiring observers felt that Barnes was getting too possessive with 'her' boys," an opinion Diana"came to share.
To Lacey, the loss of Barnes had a formative effect on William and Harry."Following the death of Diana in 1997, people remarked on how well the two young princes reacted to the unjust and unexpected removal of a mother figure from their lives—surprised, bewildered and distraught though they were," he writes. The historian's theory: The abrupt departure of their nanny meant the princes had already"had a little practice" with loss.
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