Princess Margaret

The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. With extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret and unprecedented access to royal archives, Heald asks why one of the most famous and loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life wheelchair bound and overlooked. This is a story of a life in which the private and the public seemed permanently in conflict.