'Theo Aronson is a practised royal biographer who writes with fluidity. Here is a full and fascinating account of that coming together. Aronson expounds convincingly the almost intolerable pressures to which a woman of intelligence and character must find herself subjected when entrapped in the mesh of royal responsibilities' - Daily Telegraph 'Books of the Year'

16 reviews This war, wrote Winston Churchill to King George VI at the height of the Second World War, has brought throne and people closer together than was ever before recorded.

'A balanced and on the whole generous interpretation of this most elusive of royal characters. Princess Margaret: A Biography is the first detailed, in-depth study of this controversial figure, written by a respected royal biographer.Praise for Princess Margaret: A Biography. He had written twenty-three books and appeared in several television documentaries.

Dauntingly royal yet defiantly unorthodox, Princess Margaret has spent the greater part of her life torn between meeting the exacting standards of the monarchy and flouting its long-established conventions. His research included interviewing several members of the royal family, including Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, about whom he published a biography in 1981, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret, 2 as well as numerous courtiers. Her many good points have been submerged in an avalanche of criticism.

Her private life has been racked by scandal it has been a catalogue of unhappy, unfulfilled and unsuitable relationships. Yet her nature, as one intimate has put it, 'was to make everything go wrong.' She has been described as tragic, unresolved, a royal maverick, a woman of conflict, a princess without a cause. Was Princess Margaret a royal rebel or the victim of an unfulfilling station? Whatever conclusion we draw, she remains arguably the most interesting member of the British royal family.Īs second in line to the throne for many years, Margaret was born with every possible advantage - beauty, vivacity, intelligence, wealth and position.

Princess Margaret by Theo Aronson