Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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There are lives to be described, and motives to be explored, and characters to be moved through time. When Vidal told her that Jackie Kennedy had complained that she found the Queen “pretty heavy going”, Margaret replied, “That’s what she’s for.

Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown review - The Guardian

I can’t ever remember using words that my parents used: bairn for child, bide for stay, blate for shy, breeks for trousers, brig for bridge (to name a few of the Bs).When “Queen Tina” took charge of Tatler with little experience aged 25, her soon-to-be husband, Sunday Times editor Harry Evans, gave her a crash course in picture layout.

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Nancy Mitford likened her to a “hedgehog covered in primroses”, but the reader will come to feel this is unfair to hedgehogs. This political, accessible and uncompromising book has got people talking about race and racism in Britain. And in fact Fisher succeeded in pushing through Convocation two years later an act which sought to deprive priests of their old discretion to marry divorcees.

Accordingly she instructed her pilot on the way back from an official chore to circle several times around the Somerset cottage. An urgent and important book by one of the clearest and most inspired political thinkers of the day.

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Monsters can make good material for biography, of course, but Margaret seems to have been unpleasant without ever being interesting. Sure enough, when I try “ee-uhs”, I catch the “ya” that’s often present in the upper-class affirmative, spoken from the back of the throat – and there is, of course, something of that in Princess Margaret.Brown takes the fantasy a stage further by imagining how married life would have worked out for Pablo and Margaret. All the harsher then that she should have been a victim of such strong-armed humbug by the combined forces of Church and State.