In the new book Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, journalist Craig Brown examines Princess Margaret in fragments. Margaret was self-important in ways both absurd and pathetic: She was, in a perfect and very 20th-century way, pure royalty. She was glamorous and beautiful and hard-living, with an interesting hint of tragedy to her story ( that doomed romance with Group Captain Peter Townsend!) and a strong tendency toward camp in her self-presentation.

If you watch The Crown, where Margaret’s wild-child persona makes her the easy-to-love alternative to the more staid Elizabeth, you already know that.

Window Box OUR WINDOW BOX Spilling with new favourites, old friends, and pleasures to come Temptations from the shop window, a show case for the new and outstanding, and a handful of surprises.Princess Margaret, the younger sister Queen Elizabeth II, is in certain ways the ideal British royal to be be the subject of a biography.

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