Who remembers Princess Margaret? (home, living, train)
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Margaret it seems was a horror to friends and made them all call her maam... they had to toe the line with her all the time.. taking orders and only doing things she liked doing on her home on Mustique... she was ugly to servants and maids too it seems.. and generally not nice... My favorite (probably apocryphal) Princess Margaret stories ...
At a party, she runs into Elizabeth Taylor, who's wearing the Krupp Diamond. She sniffs, "That's the most vulgar thing I've ever seen." La Liz replies, "Wanna try it on?" She does, and while entranced, Liz coos, "See? It's not so vulgar now, is it?"
Judy Garland gets slipped a note from Margaret at another party, "commanding" her to sing. Judy, not the one, tells the messenger, "Tell her I'll sing if she christens a ship first!" https://www.datalounge.com/thread/19...sh-newspaper.-
Remember more "of" Princess Margaret than actually about; she was a few generations ahead so never really paid much notice.
Still she was a damn fine looking woman in her youth. However sadly she suffered it seems from the curse that befalls all "spares" in the Saxe-Coburg Gotha (Windsor) family. Not going to inherit, just what does one do with one's life otherwise.
One shudders to think what Princess Margaret would have thought of the Markel woman marrying into the RF. Though if she had lived until now one supposed age may have mellowed her a bit.
One always had a soft spot for PM because she lived her life as she felt it befit a royal princess. The princess travelled with a train of luggage (and presumably fleet of servants to manage) as if was the early 1900's.
Recall one story of how just after giving birth to one of her children, Princess Margaret leaving the infant in care of nurses/servants flew off on holiday. First class of course and having purchased every seat in that class to ensure no one else was there but herself and travelling companions.
Upon meeting the newly married Princess Grace of Monaco, PM was asked to give her opinion; she sniffed "not one of us....".
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Remember more "of" Princess Margaret than actually about; she was a few generations ahead so never really paid much notice.
Still she was a damn fine looking woman in her youth. However sadly she suffered it seems from the curse that befalls all "spares" in the Saxe-Coburg Gotha (Windsor) family. Not going to inherit, just what does one do with one's life otherwise.
One shudders to think what Princess Margaret would have thought of the Markel woman marrying into the RF. Though if she had lived until now one supposed age may have mellowed her a bit.
One always had a soft spot for PM because she lived her life as she felt it befit a royal princess. The princess travelled with a train of luggage (and presumably fleet of servants to manage) as if was the early 1900's.
Recall one story of how just after giving birth to one of her children, Princess Margaret leaving the infant in care of nurses/servants flew off on holiday. First class of course and having purchased every seat in that class to ensure no one else was there but herself and travelling companions.
Upon meeting the newly married Princess Grace of Monaco, PM was asked to give her opinion; she sniffed "not one of us....".
Well, she was right about Princess Grace. Princess Grace took her royal offspring to visit her family, the Kellys, in Philadelphia, regularly. Their presence was never announced to the public until after they left.
Maybe I wasn't fair to her, but I never liked her. Maybe it was just because she was the younger sister who would never be queen--maybe that's what made her so nasty.
She smoked a lot and was drunk a lot. One story had her keeping her guests up most of the night because they couldn't leave until she went to bed. Which was somewhere around 4am.
She seemed to be mean and inconsiderate to everyone. Selfish, spoilt party girl.
I think her life would have been so different if she had been given permission to marry Peter Townsend. Of course there is no guarantee that theirs would have been a happy marriage, but maybe it would have been. And of course it's ironic that permission was denied to marry a divorced man, only to have Princess Margaret and then three of the Queen's four children end up getting divorces, including Charles who will end up being King (most likely, of course). From today's perspective, it seems so silly to deny permission to marry someone just because they were divorced. It's clearly a non-issue now given how warmly the royal family welcomed Meghan Markle.
Maybe Margaret would have ended up living a happily married, quiet life, and never become a jet-setting socialite, which I think would have changed the history of the entire royal family.
(I can't say I really "remember" much of this, as I even alive for a lot of it, but I've always found her story sad and captivating)
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