The Queen suffered from crippling OCD as a child, a new book claims. The future monarch told a teacher that arranging her pencils perfectly straight made her feel "safe".
Marion Crawford, who was governess to the Queen and Princess Margaret for 17 years, said she did the same thing with her lunch plates.
In new book The Governess, author Wendy Holden claims that Ms Crawford believed this was a sign of a obsessive disorder. She wrote: “Marion, whose training encompassed child psychology, now realised she was looking at obsessive compulsion. “This cosseted, regularised environment was the very last place she had expected to find it." The books says Ms Crawford asked the young princess why she arranged her pencils in such a neat manner. “The
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