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By her authorised biographer Christopher Warwick In this fully updated edition of the acclaimed biography, undertaken with the co-operation of Princess Margaret and many of those closest to her, author Christopher Warwick looks again at this enigmatic and individual royal figure, and completes the story of her life. The only author Princess Margaret ever co-operated with, Christopher Warwick was a personal friend of the Princess and the only biographer to attend her funeral. Written with authority and insight, Princess Margaret – A Life of Contrasts is a fitting memorial tribute to an exceptional, deeply complex woman. One of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life. Described by the designer and hotelier Anouska Weinberg as ‘Witty, wicked and wonderful’, this charismatic Princess not only brought colour and sex appeal into an otherwise colourless royal family, but did much to help bring the monarchy and its attitudes into the modern world. Adored younger daughter of King George VI and only sister of Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret was a pre-war princess whose world was hugely circumscribed by the strictures and protocol of another age, leading to conflict and misunderstanding in both her private and her public life. As one of the acknowledged beauties of her generation, Princess Margaret's appeal was so great that thousands at home and overseas would camp out in the hope of catching a glimpse of her. During the 1950s, her ill-starred love affair with the divorced fighter pilot, Group Captain Peter Townsend, laid the foundation for the ‘Margaret legend’.

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