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Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Craig Brown.
Fourth Estate, 423 pp., £16.99, September 2017,978 0 00 820361 0 Show More
by Craig Brown.
Fourth Estate, 423 pp., £16.99, September 2017,
“... about her, usually in snobbish terms. The snobbery is equally distributed between left and right. Christopher Isherwood called her ‘quite a common little thing’. Richard Eyre said that ‘if it weren’t for the sharp English upper-class voice, you’d say she looks like a Maltese landlady.’ Cecil Beaton described her as vulgar and later as ‘a ... ”