brilliantly written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful, at times even moving tone' - The Spectator 'Throughout this entertaining book the anecdotes come thick and fast and the detail is sometimes jaw-dropping' - The Times 'A cross between biography and satire that perfectly displays Brown's rare skills as journalist and parodist', - Mark Lawson, The Guardian, Books of the Year 'A playful, impish approach.Brown gives us lots of wonderful incidental detail.The deftly amused writing constantly tugs the corners of your mouth upwards' - The Evening Standard 'Craig Brown has brilliantly drawn together the component parts of a complex woman' - The Oldie 'The only royal biography of the year worth handing the Queen's head over for, Ma'am Darling is a modern and unconventional portrait of an old-fashioned princess as distilled and pickled through the genius of Craig Brown' - Helen Davies, The Sunday Times 'Heaven' - India Knight, The Sunday Times 'Consistently hilarious and eye-opening' - Tim Adams, The Observer 'Like everyone else, I have been relishing Craig Brown's Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, a biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and the clinically fascinating' - Hannah Bett, The Times Brown has done something amazing with Ma'am Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasn't reinvented the biographical form' - The Observer Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008203634 Number of pages: 432 Weight: 280 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm MEDIA REVIEWS It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.Ĭombining 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. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime.
One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Peter Sellers was in love with her.įor Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up.
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