'We rode together every morning in that wonderful country, in marvelous weather,' the princess told a friend about the tour, according to 2009's Snowdon: A Biography. Not long before Elizabeth married Philip in November 1947, Margaret fell in love with the very married RAF Captain Peter Townsend, who as an attendant of her father's worked in the palace and had accompanied the family on a trip to South Africa earlier that year. Though their lives were far from normal and Margaret refrained from referring to her sister in public as anything other than 'the queen,' in private the younger sister still called her big sis by her childhood nickname of 'Lilibet'-and she was still 'Margot' to the queen.īut tradition was tradition, and the queen would always be a rung above Princess Margaret, compelled to serve as the family's moral authority and bound by the rule of law and royal tradition. Though Margaret had her reasons for the way she was.

'I said, 'Yeah' and I asked, 'Would you mind if I played you?' She did say, 'I think you're a better idea than the other actor.' It was a very typical Margaret thing.'Įverything We Know About the Future of The Crownīonham Carter, who went on to be nominated for two Emmys for her performance, explained that she actually met Margaret when she was alive, and the royal 'had a way of sometimes complimenting you and putting you down at the same time.'' 'If you've got the horse's mouth in the room, you're not gonna say no,'' Bonham Carter added. It sure did, because Carter had been offered to play Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister starting in 1964, where the third season of the lavish Netflix hit picked up. Does that mean anything?' and I said, 'Yes, it does.'' Before she made her debut as Princess Margaret on The Crown, Helena Bonham Carter saw a friend of hers who had 'a talent for mediumship.'Īs the actress recalled on The Graham Norton Show, 'She said, 'Oh, Margaret is here.

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