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Princess Margaret aged 21 months at 145 Piccadilly in London, her first home, c. May 1932. Royal Archive © The Royal Household, 2022.

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Princess Margaret Rose aged 21 months filmed c. May 1932. Royal Archive © The Royal Household, 2022.

“… she is too wicked for words & most amusing.” - The Duchess of York about her daughter Margaret in a letter dated 30 April 1932.

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King George VI (far left), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret (both centre) wave goodbye to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh as the couple leave for the Commonwealth Tour, 31 January 1952. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022.

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Princess Margaret photographed by Marcus Adams on 15 December 1936. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022.

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Princess Margaret photographed in Costa Smeralda in Sardinia on Aga Khan's yacht in August 1967. © Slim Aarons.

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Coming of age: Princess Margaret’s 21st birthday, 21 August 1951

Princess Margaret photographed in the music room in Buckingham Palace for her official portraits ahead of her birthday in 1951. Photographed

Since it's all the 21s this year, I wrote about Princess Margaret's 21st birthday ♡

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Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and the Duchess of Windsor photographed at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on 7 May 1974. [AP / Faby Grant on Flickr]

This was the first time Princess Margaret had met the Duchess of Windsor since her childhood in the 1930s. It was said that the Princess was easily influenced by the opinions of others and in 1986 after the Duchess died Princess Margaret refused to attend the funeral of ‘the woman who ruined my uncle.’

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Princess Margaret photographed in Clarence House by Cecil Beaton on 19 July 1955 for her 25th birthday on 21 August. © Cecil Beaton.