We haven’t heard about Nanny Maria in a minute. Nanny Maria is Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, the Spanish nanny to Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Prince William and Kate hired Maria when George was a baby, although she was not the first nanny hired by the couple. Remember that? William called in HIS old retired nanny to help look after George in the first eight months or so. I’ve always believed that Kate and Carole Middleton put a stop to that and made sure that a properly trained nanny was hired to look after the baby and NOT William. Maria was seen as a somewhat controversial choice because she’s Spanish, not English. But I think Kate probably likes that her nanny isn’t from the rigid, royal, English-only nanny-complex.
Anyway, there were some rumors back in 2024 that Maria had quietly left the Wales’ family’s employ, but no, she’s still around. She doesn’t live inside Forest Lodge, but she has her own little cottage somewhere on the massive acreage stolen from Windsor Great Park. Well, this week, Maria was given a special honor – the Royal Victorian Medal, for services to William and Kate. William did Nanny Maria’s investiture as well. I’m sure she was pleased. But People Magazine asks the question: was Maria honored at this moment because she’s going to be shown the door in the next year?
Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo has been in the lives of Kate Middleton and Prince William since Prince George was a baby, but with the royal couple’s three children growing up, how long will she remain in her role?
Borrallo received the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) during an investiture ceremony on Tuesday, March 24, for her “services to the Prince and Princess of Wales.” The special honor is bestowed at the discretion of King Charles, differentiating it from other distinctions that are conferred for community contributions.
The Spanish-born nanny has worked for Kate and William for over a decade, joining their team when Prince George, now 12, was 8 months old. She stayed with the family as they expanded with Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, being spotted helping with the children at events such as royal tours, Trooping the Colour, Charlotte’s 2015 christening, Pippa Middleton’s 2017 nuptials and Prince Harry’s 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.
“Maria loves the children dearly,” a source previously told PEOPLE. “She can be firm and strict, but she is very loving and soft with them too.”
Borrallo trained at the prestigious Norland College in Bath, England, where nannies are taught everything from child brain development to first aid to evasive driving techniques.
However, Norland Nannies focus on the early years, up to age 8, according to their website. With Prince Louis’ eighth birthday approaching next month and Prince George likely heading to boarding school in the fall, Borrallo’s time with the family could be nearing its end.
There have already been some changes. While Borrallo lived with the family at Kensington Palace in London, William and Kate didn’t have any live-in staff once they relocated to Windsor in 2022. They recently moved from Adelaide Cottage to Forest Lodge, also in Windsor, and despite having more rooms, they continue not to have live-in staff. Instead, Borrallo, as well as housekeepers, likely stay on other smaller properties on the estate.
I didn’t know Norland Nannies are focused on the early years. It’s all coming together, right? Gee, I wonder where Kate got the idea? All this time, she was copykeening her kids’ nanny!!! Anyway, yeah… Louis turning 8, and George off to school somewhere, we still don’t know for sure. This would probably be the time to start looking for her next position. But something tells me that William and Kate want Maria to stick around for a lot longer. Louis will probably be driving by the time Maria gets out of there.
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- KING’S LYNN, ENGLAND – JULY 05: Prince George of Cambridge plays with the wheels of Princess Charlotte’s pram as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince George’s nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo (in her Norland Nanny Uniform) looks on as they leave the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham Estate for the Christening of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge on July 5, 2015 in King’s Lynn, England.,Image: 525425487, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: – / Avalon
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- KING’S LYNN, ENGLAND – JULY 05: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince George’s nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo leave the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham Estate for the Christening of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge on July 5, 2015 in King’s Lynn, England.,Image: 525454287, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: – / Avalon
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The moment I heard about the honor being given at the sole discretion of the king, my first thought was – she witnessed whatever went down that fateful day in December. And this is Charles rewarding her silence.
That was my first thought too. She has seen to much and is being rewarded for her silence. Strange she doesn’t live in the home with the children but in a cottage on the estate.
I have to believe she has signed the biggest NDA in the world bc yeah she has def seen stuff.
I dont know who’s honor it is to give this out, but this tells me that once the king’s gone, lazyscootwillie and lazykatiekeen will have to use the people who attend to the king and not to lower royals. To me, thats why she’s getting this now. So the time is near.
I mean I’m sure she could nanny past age 8 if everyone wanted that.
Maybe she’s taking the helm of the Early Years project. She’d be a little more qualified than Kate, anyway.
The need for a special nanny uniform is ridiculous. I seriously hope she’s written everything down that she’s witnessed. I would.
I find this aspect of British nanny-ing incredibly demeaning. It’s so deeply unflattering, let them wear what they want!
I think she’s only worn it for Charlotte’s christening which was that weird spectacle of Kate walking with the pram to church. Something that was never done for George and seemed to suggest that Charlotte was going to be the last child so Kate got to put on a show. Louis never got a christening like that.
Also, to clarify that while William’s old nanny was first brought in there was also a night nanny because this nanny was too old to do overnight work. And there were definitely additional nannies outside of Maria when Charlotte and Louis were born. Again Louis did not attend Harry and Meghan’s wedding but Maria was there wrangling George and Charlotte when Kate wasn’t doing a photo op with them.
It remains a bit of a mystery why Maria is still there with Louis having been in school full time for several years. Especially since Kate is not busy working and she is supposed to be spending time with the kids as the reason for not working.
And Carole remains heavily involved. After all they lied for years about Carole being present during the Australian tour, when it was just George and nanny Maria was confirmed to be there.
I don’t know if many people are sufficiently aware of this fact, but NDAs are not foolproof and they contain no criminal provision, that is, you are not doing anything illegal by breaking one. The issue is financial compensation and legal fees. 1, if you accepted money in exchange for your silence, you naturally will be sued for breaking your silence, and the amount demanded is — at minimum — the amount you were paid for your silence, to start with. Then you add legal fees. Then you add whatever damages are attributable to “reputational damage,” but this is where it gets tricky. If your information is accurate and fact-checked and “in the public interest” then any reputational damage that you inflict is not grounds for damages. Defamation only includes inaccurate information circulated with malicious intent. And in the US, (vs the UK) the bar is even higher, owing to protections of free speech: the subject of the exposé has to *prove* that the whistleblower *knew* the information they provided was false and did so with *intent* to cause malicious harm. Now, if you report accurate information, and do so in order to alert the public to a looming peril, in order to prevent harm to others, not to inflict it on the subject of your revelations, the harm you do them is considered incidental and they are not legally entitled to seek restitution, nor is your publisher liable for damaging their reputation. If their reputation was founded on claims that facts disprove, it is not legally protected. ….going to war with an institution that represents a country, is difficult. But it can be done.
This is a great explainer – thank you so much for posting! Everyone casually throws around the term NDA, very helpful to understand their actual limits and structure.
See, I DID learn something on the internet today, what a nice surprise!
Thank you for this! I didn’t actually know anything about NDAs, it turns out.
I agree that you can’t legally hold an NDA to prevent criminal behaviour from being disclosed, but Maria is a nanny and if she wants another job she is not going to reveal anything, even if William did cause that scar and that’s why Kate went missing for months.
The future king of the UK is basically above the law. He is no different than orange one except that he doesn’t have to be elected for the job and he has it for life.
This is to reply to @Nic919, I’m with you up to a point — it’s her reputation as well as theirs, at stake, if she wants to speak out about what she’s witnessed. But with good lawyers, a reputable publisher, and a coordinated release in several markets & languages — like Harry’s book & Omid’s — she need never nanny again.
You can really tell that this is a KP derived story because of that weird emphasis on not having “live-in” staff. They must think it makes them sound like regular degulars, because we see it constantly!
I love that the people article adds the helpful info that Nanny Maria and other household staff probably live somewhere else on the grounds, though, which really undercuts the point the Wales were pedantically trying to make.
If anything, I think it makes them less relatable to have whole separate outbuildings dedicated to the staff members that run their household but are not allowed to stay under that same roof. Even Downtown Abbey had most of the servants live in!
Maria is likely there because she handles the kids both before and after school. The infamous school run.
The infamous school run. I was reading another article about Nanny Maria and it outlined the primary duties of a Norland nanny. Handling the children’s school runs was specifically pointed out as a major duty that would be typically managed by a Norland nanny such as Maria. Huh. And yet we’ve been told over and over that Kate is SO busy managing the school run (and William, during the Great Kate disappearance)? So who is really doing the school run for these kids? I’m sure Nanny Maria is just kicking back with her tea while Kate or William is driving the kids to school 😉
No need to reply, I think we all know the answer.
This is to @Kim, the close protection officers do the school run & likely as not nannies accompany many children to that particular school. I picked up one of their brochures & looked at the place years ago before we selected a school for my son & it looks like a lovely place. Parents were thin on the ground. If you’re a SAHM, it’s tough to make friends in that space because the mums are not at the school gate & the nannies / minders are on the clock so they don’t linger.
I suppose she’s already signed the NDA, but I’d LOVE to read the book she’s not allowed to write.
She knows those kids better than the parents do. She should adopt them at this point.