"She was a really wonderful friend to me," Glenconner said of the princess, before revealing that in her final years the royal declined seeing male friends after illness affected her famous looks. However, after her sister became queen, she moved to Clarence House with the Queen Mother, where she was reported to have felt isolated. Until her father's death, the princess had been living at Buckingham Palace with her parents. Her sister, Elizabeth, then became queen. Margaret, who had a reputation as the wild child of the royal family in her early years, was 21 when her father King George VI died in 1952. I lost my beloved father.and I've really lost my sister because she's going to be so busy, and I've got to go and live with my mother!'" "I said to her, 'I've seen this film ma'am, you look so sad,' and she said, 'yes, of course I was. "Long afterwards," she said, "I saw a private film that had made of various things and there was she looking happy, and us and the Queen Mother, looking wonderful as she always did, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and then behind them was Princess Margaret looking really sad." And (inset) Princess Margaret at the queen's coronation. Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret photographed in London, July 17, 1995.
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