A kiss from Mummy for shy Charles

DURING the Fifties, family and duty were firmly separated in the House of Windsor. Usually, the Queen went to the Buckingham Palace nursery to see Charles and Anne, but occasionally they were allowed to interrupt ‘Mummy’ working at her desk with its red box of official papers. More often they were in the charge of Mabel Anderson, a young Scottish nanny who looked after them for most of the day. The scene from The Crown (left) with the Queen (Claire Foy) kissing the head of her son (Billy Jenkins) is set 1957 when Charles was a pupil at Hill House in Knightsbridge, the first heir to the throne to attend school. In real life, Charles was already getting used to official portraits. In 1954, aged six he poses shyly with his mother.