![]() ![]() Subtitled, 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret, this book has 99 chapters some short, some longer. There are many ways of looking at the life of Princess Margaret and here Craig Brown offers us a kind of exploded biography in 99 glimpses, snippets and bite-size chunks: gossipy anecdotes. I don't know why people want to rot her like that. I loved Craig Brown’s previous book, One on One, and so, although a biography of Princess Margaret did not particularly appeal having heard so many good things about this unusual biography, I decided to give it a try. This book up-front admits that it’s not a biography of Margaret. I knew the basics of her life, and had seen her depiction in The Crown. Margaret was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth. Speaking in 2019, Princess Margaret's close friend and lady-in-waiting Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, described Ma'am Darling as "that horrible book, we won't mention the name of the somebody who wrote it. I picked up 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret and dug in. It was well received by literary critics, with review aggregator Bookmarks reporting zero negative and two mixed reviews among 14 total, indicating "rave" reviews. The book won the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the biography category. The book consists of "essays, lists, catalogues, diaries, palace announcements, newspaper cuttings and interviews, as well as parodies". It was published in the United States in 2018 as Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. Ma'am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a 2017 book on the life of Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, written by Craig Brown. Maam Darling : 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. ![]()
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