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Jan 14, 2023 · Queen Elizabeth was 10 years old and Princess Margaret was just 6 when their father became King George VI and Elizabeth the presumptive heir. It was reportedly Margaret who put together what their father becoming king meant for her older sister. According to the Channel 5 documentary "Elizabeth: Our Queen" (via Hello!
- Christine Liwag Dixon
Dec 15, 2023 · “Lilibet is my pride. Margaret is my joy,” King George VI once said of his two daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. It ended up being a symbolic remark for the relationship ...
Feb 3, 2022 · Inside King George VI’s Complicated Love Life. A century-old letter describing Queen Elizabeth’s father during a youthful love affair is a reminder that the dutiful king did have a brief phase ...
- Erin Vanderhoof
- Two Very Different Women
- 'The House Guest from Hell'
- A Forbidden Romance
- Margaret Must Choose: Status Or Love
- Princess Margaret Meets Her Match
- Margaret's Tragic Final Years
The House of Windsor has a history of producing a dutiful, conservative heir followed by a charming, slightly dangerous, sibling. "Charles the patient versus Andrew the foolish. William the cautious matched against reckless Harry," Andrew Morton said. Princess Margaret said she and her sister were often reduced to archetypes fit for a fairytale. "W...
After reeling people in with her charm, Margaret was notorious for suddenly hurling insults without warning. "Well you don't look like a movie star," she said to Grace Kelly when they met in the 1950s. She informed Elizabeth Taylor her engagement ring was "vulgar" and told the model Twiggy her nickname was "unfortunate". She also exploited royal pr...
After the love affair between King Edward and divorcee Wallis Simpson triggered a constitutional crisis, the royal family were keen to avoid any more romantic scandals. And so when Princess Margaret announced at 22 that she had fallen in love with Peter Townsend, a divorced royal equerry 16 years her senior, they were swift to cover up the relation...
For the next three years, the question of marriage consumed Margaret and Peter, as well as Buckingham Palace. The Queen, though nervous about the disapproval of her parliament and the Church of England, supported her beloved Margaret. "Her Majesty would not wish to stand in the way of her sister's happiness," then-prime minister Anthony Eden wrote ...
When they parted, Margaret and Peter Townsend made a pact to never marry anyone else. Four years later, Group Captain Townsend proposed to a Belgian woman 25 years his junior. Betrayed and heartbroken, the princess knew it was time to move on with her life. A year after the Townsend wedding, she walked into Westminster Abbey surrounded by 2,000 gue...
Roddy Llewellyn was a 25-year-old gardener partying in Scotland when he caught the eye of a 43-year-old princess in the midst of a secret marriage breakdown. They kept their affair under wraps for several years, but a paparazzo with a long lens camera eventually spotted them on a beach in Mustique. "I didn't think about the consequences of such a h...
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Princess Margaret was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and sister to Queen Elizabeth II. She was born on 21 August 1930. During her rich and varied life, The Princess played an active role in the Royal Family's public work, supporting The late Queen. Her particular interests were in the broad field of ...
Sep 12, 2022 · It meant that Elizabeth's father was now King George VI - and that someday she would be Queen. But where did that leave her younger sister, Princess Margaret? Suddenly the focus was on her big ...
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May 10, 2024 · Princess Margaret (born August 21, 1930, Glamis Castle, Scotland—died February 9, 2002, London, England) was a British royal, the second daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. She struggled throughout her life to balance an independent spirit and ...
