{"product_id":"princess-margaret-and-the-curse","title":"Princess Margaret and the Curse","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781510782563\u003cbr\u003eFormat: With dust jacket\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Groundbreaking New Perspective of Princess Margaret by Renowned Biographer Meryle Secrest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meryle Secrest, distinguished biographer in the arts and humanities, and recipient of a White House Medal, has turned her focus to royalty. In \u003ci\u003ePrincess Margaret and the Curse\u003c\/i\u003e, she has put the conventional view of a much-reviled Princess on its head. Her latest study, which she considers more of an investigation than a biography as such, proposes that nobody knows the truth about the fabled, doomed Princess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She is the first person to have looked at Princess Margaret in a particular family context. That is to say with reference to her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the daughter of a famous, hard-drinking Scottish family that had inhabited an ancient dwelling, Glamis Castle, for centuries. Her older brothers were already renowned for their prowess in alcohol consumption. Decades later, once she became Queen Mother, this Elizabeth would begin to imbibe by eleven in the morning. She was already lamenting the loss of her \"drinking powers\" when, because of severe bouts of morning sickness during her first pregnancy with the future Queen Elizabeth in 1926, she could not drink. Four years later, while pregnant with Princess Margaret in 1930, she was not so handicapped. Doctors believed it was perfectly safe for a mother-to-be to drink, so she drank.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The doctors were wrong. But it took another forty-three years, until 1973, before new studies established that alcohol in any amount was poisonous to the developing human being. The effect is lifelong. We now know that victims' growth is stunted (Margaret stopped","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41860233887877,"sku":"PR435324","price":79.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTGCONLWMF1W.jpg?v=1789121957","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/princess-margaret-and-the-curse","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}