![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. ![]() She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. From our funniest writer, a portrait of our most talked-about royal. ![]()
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