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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Written by Craig Brown

Narrated by Eleanor Bron

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A witty and profound audiobook portrait of the most talked-about English royal.

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy.

Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950s heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death in 2002, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.

Such an enigmatic and divisive figure demands a reckoning that is far from the usual fare. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues, and essays, Craig Brown’s Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 7, 2018
ISBN9781250311634
Author

Craig Brown

Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a rich variety of publications, including the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Spectator. His books include One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Ma’am Darling, which won the James Tait Black award.

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    This family makes me think of some of the arrogant wealthy southerners of the United States that I have come across. .They always nag at each other with such arrogance as if they are specially blessed by god. Even to the extent where some never talk to their relatives who live just next door.