20 Outrageous Chapters From The Wild Life Of Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret famously told Jean Cocteau “disobedience is my joy,” according to royal biographer Theo Aronson. And in recent times, her brand of royal rebellion has been introduced to a new generation through her depiction on The Crown. Even so, as these anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth’s little sister go to show, she was perhaps even more outrageous in real life.
20. Dropped coat
It turns out that Princess Margaret sure knew how to make an entrance at a party. In fact, her behavior has been compared to that of a rockstar, rather than the royal that she was. That’s because she was known to show blatant disregard to protocol and fly in the face of what might have been expected from a lady of her stature.
According to an anecdote relayed by the news site The Daily Beast in 2017, Margaret once dropped her coat at a function, sparking a fellow party-goer to offer to pick it back up. The princess was blasé about the proposal, though, reportedly telling the man, “No. I’ll never remember where it is if you move it.’”
19. Ultimate party girl
Margaret was well known for her frivolous lifestyle, and sometimes she just didn’t want the party to end. As one legend dictates, she once declared, “No one leaves my presence until I give them permission to do so.” She apparently said this as fellow party guests began to filter out of a gathering at 4 a.m.
In another anecdote, Margaret is said to have turned up three hours later to dinner and ordered the party to continue into the early hours. Critic Brian Sewell recalled, “The servants from the village had gone home to bed and the rest of us, some half-dozen, absolutely plastered, had to buckle-to, and carry and carve the baked meats of sacrifice. She then kept us up until four in the morning, kippering us with her cigarettes.”
