Royal Family News: Royal Spares Prince Harry And Princess Margaret Both Courted Scandal and Controversy

British royal family news divulges that the late Queen Elizabeth became monarch in 1952 while she and Prince Philip were in Kenya and soon after they lived in Malta due to his naval career.

No one could have foreseen the tragic circumstance of her father’s passing, making her queen at age 25.

But Elizabeth was not the only royal greatly affected by the change in circumstance, her sister Princess Margaret was also deeply impacted by this change.

Royal Family News: Princess Margaret’s New Life

Princess Margaret was 22 when Elizabeth became queen, and she was thrust into a very public role.  According to The List, Margaret had a “natural proclivity for excess and hedonism” that the whole world soon came to see. Margaret had a tragic life, with her sister’s regency contributing to much of it.

Royal Family News: Margaret Became Spoiled

When King Edward VIII abdicated the throne, their father King George VI became king, and at age ten Elizabeth learned she would be queen “Allegedly, to make up for the fact that Margaret wouldn’t be queen, she was notably spoiled by her parents.”

Royal Family News: Margaret’s Spare Role

Additionally Elizabeth received a superior education to Margaret. In the BBC’s documentary “Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal” Lady Anne Glenconner stated that Margaret “always said, ‘I was never educated as well as my sister in order not to be a sort of threat to her.” This sounds like shades of Harry’s vitriol.

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Royal Family News: Princess Margaret Jealous

Despite the friction Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret remained close although Margaret allegedly thought she would have made a better queen. Later, the Royal Marriages Act prohibited her from marrying Captain Peter Townsend, because he was divorced.

At one point The Telegraph reported that Margaret “did occasionally slip into passive aggressive behavior to let Elizabeth know how she felt … towards her sister’s glittering life.”

Margaret eventually married Antony Armstrong-Jones in the first televised royal marriage. The marriage was scandalous because he was a commoner and years later their divorce was equally scandalous.

Perhaps Margaret used retail therapy as a coping mechanism and she “was heavily criticized throughout her life for her excessive spending.”

She was dubbed the “party princess,” and Craig Brown’s book about her “Ma’am Darling” claimed she has breakfast in bed “at 9:00 a.m. followed by endless cigarettes and two hours of listening to the radio. At 12:30, she started drinking vodka.”

The parallels between Margaret and Harry’s lives are fascinating, both spares, both with an attitude, and both well acquainted with scandal. Tell us royal fans, do you see any other similarities between Margaret and Harry?

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