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Princess Margaret - A Life Unravelled (Paperback)
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Princess Margaret - A Life Unravelled (Paperback)
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Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the
controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of
her day 'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who
became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS 'She was a witty,
intelligent, stimulating companion - happily Tim Heald captures all
these qualities in his admirably well-balanced biography' LITERARY
REVIEW The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess
Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of
unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a
woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than
Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness
co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret's life
was 'ruined' by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of
her life - Group Captain Peter Townsend - and that therefore her
marriage to Lord Snowdon and her well-attested relationships with
Roddy Llewellyn and others were mere consolation prizes. Margaret's
often exotic personal life in places like Mustique is a key part of
her story. The author has had extraordinary help from those closest
to Princess Margaret, including her family (Lord Snowdon and her
son, Lord Linley), as well as three of her private secretaries and
many of her ladies in waiting. These individuals have not talked to
any previous biographer. He has also had the Queen's permission to
use the royal archives. Heald asks why one of the most famous and
loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime
sweetheart, ended her life a sad wheelchair-bound figure, publicly
reviled and ignored. This is a story of a life in which the private
and the public seemed permanently in conflict. The biography is
packed with good stories. Princess Margaret was never ignored; what
she said and did has been remembered and recounted to Tim Heald.
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