Documentary - 52 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 2
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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Princess Margaret was born in 1930 into a life of Royal privilege with every possible advantage - intelligence, wealth, position and good looks. Prevented from marrying her first love Peter Townsend in the name of duty and propriety, forced to live a life in the shadow of her sister, Queen Elizabeth, Margaret has been described as a Princess without a vocation'.

A striking society beauty, with her own court' of actors, playboys and bohemians; scandal, misfortune and controversy marked her life. This intimate biography, using never-seen before archive film, explores the reality and truth behind the life of the least understood of the 20th century royals.

In May 1960 Princess Margaret married society photographer Anthony Snowden and perhaps her greatest legacy are the two children that were the result of this marriage, David and Sarah and their growing families - Margaret's grand-children.

Tragically in her sister's Golden Jubilee year Princess Margaret died, ion 9th February 2002 aged 71 almost 50 years to the day after the death of her doting father George VI and jus over a month before her mother passed away.

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