Princess Margaret

PRINCESS MARGARET - Helen Cathcart In her compelling new 'royal book of the year' Helen Cathcart offers a piquant and unrestricted personal study of the Queen's sister, the definitive inner story of one of the most-discussed women in the world, written with candour and compassion. Here is Princess Margaret entire. .. the woman and the enigma. From the curious warming-pan scare of her Glamis birth, we explore her phenomenal childhood popularity in the nostalgic era of 'the two little Princesses'. Here is 'Margaret all alone', a child of the Abdication, watching her parents crowned in Westminster Abbey. We meet the wartime prisoner of Windsor and the post-war Princess dancing among the crowds after her sister's Coronation. The author casts crucial new light on the Townsend incident, a crisis once compared with the love affair of the Duke of Windsor, and the culminating love story of the Princess and the young photographer, today's Lord Snowdon, is traced with delightful authenticity. With her deep experience and family insight, Helen Cathcart has sifted fact from rumour, and reality from malice, in describing the true perspectives of Princess Margaret's marriage. Against the changing scenes of Clarence House and Kensington Palace, the romantic Room in Rotherhithe, a hideaway cottage in Sussex and a Caribbean island in the sun, we see Princess Margaret as wife and mother, loyal sister and friend, temperamental, bewildering and yet always her steadfast self.