It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.Ĭombining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma’am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.įrom beginning to end a total hatchet job on the late Princess Margaret, or Priceless Margarine as John Lennon called her, less nasty perhaps than another of her nicknames, The Royal Dwarf.* The book is extremely funny and is about 95% based on printed material, letters and interviews. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950’s heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. “If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies” he confided to a friend, “they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!” Peter Sellers was in love with her.įor Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.Īndy Warhol photographed her. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.
In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy.
She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. A Guardian Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Daily Mail Book of the Year She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up.
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