Who was Prince Charles' main nurse while he was a child?

Question

I want her name, please.

Answer 1

It was Big Fat Fannie, immortalised in the song "Fat Bottom Girls" by the rock band Queen on their 1978 album Jazz .

Answer 2

Charles had a Nanny and she looked just like Camilla.

Can't remember her name.

Answer 3

From Royalty website.

There is much more on the site and your local library (especially if you are in the UK) can probably supply extra details.

EARLY LIFE

The Prince was born at Buckingham Palace on 14 November 1948.

He was christened Charles Philip Arthur George in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher.

Prince Charles lived in Buckingham Palace until he was eight months old. His parents, Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh, then moved to Clarence House.

Princess Anne, now The Princess Royal, was born on 15 August 1950. The children had two nannies, Helen Lightbody and Mabel Anderson.

Princess Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen on 6 February 1952. On The Queen's accession to the throne, Prince Charles, as the Sovereign's eldest son, became heir apparent at the age of three.

The Prince's new status made him The Duke of Cornwall. He also automatically took the Scottish titles Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.



The Prince was four at his mother's Coronation in Westminster Abbey on 2 June, 1953. He sat between his widowed grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and his aunt, Princess Margaret.

Prince Andrew, now The Duke of York, was born in 1960, and Prince Edward, now The Earl of Wessex, was born in 1964.

Answer 4

The New York Times published Nanny Helen Lightbody's obituary, March 17, 1987, noting that she cared for both Prince Charles and Princess Anne and was known as "No Nonsense Lightbody".