ANNIE MCDONALD DRESSER TO THE QUEEN
Anne (Annie) Mitchell, the first child of William Mitchell, a blacksmith, and his wife Margaret Gordon, was born at Carn-na-Cuimhne, 1.5 miles from Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, on 3 January 1832 and baptised one week later.
Over the next seventeen years, William and Margaret had another six children: three girls and three boys. In the 1851 census, Annie is enumerated as ‘employed at home’. It is unclear what her role
