The Royal Nanny (2016)
“She didn’t want to give up her “sweet, little crown,” Sandringham House, or Buckingham Palace. He had problems with Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, who tried to restrict the power of the House of Lords. The Suffragettes took their motto “Deeds, not words!” to the streets in protests and vandalism and went on hunger strikes. That strike was matched by workers’ unions and protests: a railway strike, a cotton industry strike. The coalfield strikers in South Wales and other places refused to work too. As ever, the Irish were demanding home rule, and I know that worried him.
Though the king had always been a short-tempered man, he was even more so now, and I lived in fear that something Johnnie did might get him sent away. I dreaded what Mr. Hansell’s judgment of the lad would be when he began to tutor him. Hansell was a toe-the-line sort who wanted yes-or-no, down-the-line answers, and that was not Johnnie. If Hansell compared Johnnie to clever George, Johnnie was such . . . well, such a ...dreamer, creative too, in his own way—but definitely not down the line.MoreLess
Though the king had always been a short-tempered man, he was even more so now, and I lived in fear that something Johnnie did might get him sent away. I dreaded what Mr. Hansell’s judgment of the lad would be when he began to tutor him. Hansell was a toe-the-line sort who wanted yes-or-no, down-the-line answers, and that was not Johnnie. If Hansell compared Johnnie to clever George, Johnnie was such . . . well, such a ...dreamer, creative too, in his own way—but definitely not down the line.MoreLess
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