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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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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.
Princess Margaret aged 21 months at 145 Piccadilly in London, her first home, c. May 1932. Royal Archive © The Royal Household, 2022.
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.
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret at the Royal Film Performance of Beau Brummel at the Empire cinema in Leicester Square on 16 November 1954.
Princess Margaret photographed by Marcus Adams on 15 December 1936. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022.
Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth with their pet chameleon in the grounds of Windsor Castle in 1941, photographed by Lisa Sheridan.
The Princesses were gifted the chameleon by their relative Lord Louis Mountbatten as their nanny, Marion Crawford, recalled: 'Princess Elizabeth was thrilled and quickly had a box made to keep the creature. Princess Margaret rushed off and got a copy of Debrett's [Peerage] on which we put him. He immediately changed to red.' 'Princess Elizabeth used to carry him on a hand to the big windows in the dining room where there were always a few bluebottles buzzing round. Here she would hold the creature in a convenient position so that its long black tongue could snake out and seize one of the unfortunate flies.' When the chameleon died Princess Elizabeth wanted to "bury him in a proper state." A small white coffin was made and a funeral was held: 'The three of us marched into the gardens to find a suitable cemetery. We had not yet gone far when Princess Elizabeth stopped with a look of horror on her fact. "But how do we know he's dead?" she asked. Then we had to undo the coffin and make sure. There was no doubt about it, so we buried him under a flowering shrub and Princess Elizabeth hummed a hymn tune.'
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, with her nieces Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret at the coronation of their brother and father respectively, King George VI and consort Queen Elizabeth, on 12 May 1937.
“Daughter No. 2 is really very nice, and I am glad to say that she has got large blue eyes and a will of iron, which is all the equipment that a lady needs! And as long as she can disguise her will, & use her eyes, then all will be well.” - The Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, writing to Reverend Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury about her 3-week-old daughter Princess Margaret on 10 September 1930.
Photographed by Marcus Adams on 12 July 1933. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021. || Photographed by Dorothy Wilding in 1951. © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London.