Craig Brown.
CRAIG BROWN: PRINCESS MARGARET BIOGRAPHY
MA’AM DARLING: 99 GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGRET (2017)
Winner of the 2017 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.
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The outstanding humourist Craig Brown writes a sparkling and irreverent account of the life of Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabth II. While she relished the grandeur of the royal role, insisting on formality and deference from ordinary people, Margaret enjoyed a louche private life - including frequent visits to the West Indian Island of Mustique, where she got away from it all as the guest of the flamboyant and dissolute aristocrat Colin Tennant. Her giddy life was in stark contrast to that of her serious and dutiful older sister Elizabeth. The Observer reviewer wrote of the book: ‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’.
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Craig Brown (born 1957) was educated at Eton and the University of Bristol. He is a writer and journalist, who has contributed to the Tatler, the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, as a regular columnist for the Evening Standard, and as parliamentary sketch writer at the Times. He has also written a restaurant column for the Sunday Telegraph. In addition to his biography of Princess Margaret, he has written a prize-winning biography of the Beatles.
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