Princess Margaret av Tim Heald

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<p><b>Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day</b><br><br><b>''A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain'' DAILY EXPRESS</b><br><br><b>''She was a witty, intelligent, stimulating companion - happily Tim Heald captures all these qualities in his admirably well-balanced biography'' LITERARY REVIEW</b><br><br>The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment.<br><br>Tim Heald''s vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret''s life was ''ruined'' by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of her life - Group Captain Peter Townsend - and that therefore her marriage to Lord Snow