In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien
Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of
Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the
princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret,
who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the
stuff of which dreams are made. "I'm three and you're four," the
future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister. The
younger girl, not understanding this reference to their position in
the succession, proudly countered, "No, you're not. I'm three,
you're seven." The royal sisters had no choice in their historic
positions, but behind the palace gates and within the all-too-human
confines of their personalities, they displayed tremendous
individuality and suffered the usual symptoms of sibling rivalry.
Royal Sisters provides an unprecedented and intimate portrait of
these most famous siblings during their formative and dramatic
youthful years. It is also one of the twentieth century's most
fascinating stories of sisterly loyalty. Edwards's book is an
honest look at how the royal sisters feel toward each other, their
parents, their close relations and the men whom they have loved. It
openly discusses, with new insights and information, the romance of
Elizabeth and Philip and the tragic aborted love affair between
Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend, and it has a cast of
characters ranging from the youthful sisters' suitors to Winston
Churchill and the entire Royal Family. It is also the story of the
making of a queen, of the high drama of her situation in the
Townsend affair, of the real effect their uncle's abdication had on
the sisters' lives, and of the internecine feuds that have brewed
within the Royal Family since that time. Brought vividly to life
through the many personal interviews of close royal associates,
filled with new facts, previously unpublished anecdotes and
photographs, Royal Sisters is a never-before-glimpsed look at the
relationship of the Queen and Princess Margaret.
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