TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Craig
TI  - Ma'am darling: 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret 
SN  - 9780008203610
U1  - 941.085092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - 4th Estate
KW  - Margaret,
KW  - Princesses
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-423)
N2  - She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was 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 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. 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
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