Former royal nanny Jessie Webb has died

Jessie Webb, the former royal nanny who looked after Prince William as a boy and later helped care for Prince George, has died. The journalist Robert Jobson first reported her death, and Hello! magazine published the news on 15 November 2026. Hello says Prince William has been informed of her passing.

A nanny is a childcare worker who looks after children in the family home. Webb became the royal nanny when William was around seven years old. She stayed in touch with the family for decades, and she was a familiar face at key moments in their lives.

She was a guest at William's 21st birthday party. She was also at his wedding to Catherine in 2011, and at the christening of Prince George in October 2013. Hello also reports that she was invited to the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

In 2013, Webb was 71 and had already retired. She came back to help William and Catherine look after George at their home on Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of Wales. Before she retired, her last royal appointment had been caring for the two children of Viscount Linley, the son of Princess Margaret. Their names were Patrick and Margarita.

The Hello report also notes that William and his younger brother, Prince Harry, are no longer on speaking terms.

Webb's career spanned three generations of the family's children. Her name is now part of the record of those early years, from the nursery to the christenings and weddings that followed.