Instead, as American writer Gore Vidal once said, she was much more intelligent than her station in life. "If you believed what tabloids said at the time, she was just some airhead party girl." "The documentary shows that Princess Margaret wasn’t just the good-time girl of legend," Warwick says. She was just 71 her mother, who died weeks later, was nearly 102, and her sister will turn 93 in April. "Townsend was not the love of her life – the love of her life was her father, King George VI, whom she adored." She was the original royal 'celebrity'ĭecades before Princess Diana, Margaret was a tabloid target, a figure of worldwide fascination from the 1950s to the '70s who courted scandal and infamy throughout her tumultuous life, which ended in February 2002. "Brilliant though this documentary is, it left why she didn’t marry Townsend hanging on the thread of 'duty.' But the truth is that having spent two years apart, they were no longer as in love as they had been," Warwick says. Long story short, they decided not to marry after a forced separation and years of scandalous headlines. Peter Townsend, the World War II hero flyer and her father's equerry, with whom she fell in love when she was 16 even though he was already married. "(The sisters) were as different as chalk and cheese, but there was this most enormous loving bond between them, always," Warwick says.
Her children adored her and so did her sister, the queen, with whom she talked nearly every day by phone, Warwick says.
"There are constant stories that she’s the bad girl of the royal house of Windsor," says Christopher Warwick, the princess' authorized biographer ("Princess Margaret – A Life of Contrasts"), a key participant in this British-made documentary that features interviews with historians, biographers, journalists and Margaret's friends. And she wasn't afraid of taking up with even younger men afterward. Old Vic would not have been amused by what many of her descendants were up to, but she would have been truly exasperated by Margaret, who, ever since her teen years, craved fun, fashion, theater, parties and men, even as she carried out bland royal duties.Īt that young age, she sought to marry a much older divorced man and later divorced the philandering commoner she had wed. 17, 10 EST/PST, check local listings) is paired with Masterpiece's "Victoria," the dramatization of Princess Margaret Rose's great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria. The two-part biography, "Margaret: The Rebel Princess" (Sunday and Feb. PBS proves this again with a two-hour look at Princess Margaret, the gorgeous, glamorous and beguiling "modern" royal who helped birth a new era in the British monarchy.
You can never have too many royals on American television.
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