The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford 1950 First Edition Governess to Queen Elizabeth cottage style At the very beginning of You might as well At the very beginning of this cookbook Ruth touches on that very notion when she refers to the elusive charm of cooking and the importance of having " a light touch a sense of humor a flair for the clever idea in cooking and serving that results in something called style a feeling for the kind of beauty that women want around them in their workaday world but two years before that Homer Laughlin was the governess for seventeen years to Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret from the time they were four and six years old behind the scenes life of what would seem like a fairy tale childhood lived in the most extraordinary and history filled surroundings