Author Christopher Warwick, the only authorized biographer for the Princess, once again uses his deft skills as both a writer and a listener to add new life to his previous biography of Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret, While never crossing the line of getting too close or too chummy with his subject, Mr. Warwick spent a lot of time getting to know all of the remarkable (and sometimes regrettable) facets of this rebel of a Royal. As a pre-war royal whose world was hugely circumscribed by the strictures of another age, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life. She helped usher the monarchy into the modern world—which sometimes led to conflict and misunderstanding in both her private and public life. Christopher Warwick’s superbly researched biography redresses the balance. It gives the full, insider story of the Princess’s many love affairs, but also looks at her tireless work for charity and willingness to break taboos—it was she, not Diana, who first championed HIV and AIDS awareness. Princess Margaret reminds us that its subject was one of the most remarkable, if complex and contradictory, modern royal personalities.
If you are interested in the facts of the life of one of the most public personas of the latter twentieth century, rather than just the salacious gossip and conjecture of many of the "royal biographers", then this is the book for you! Happy reading!
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