Dazzle jennings princess margaret9/1/2023 She would lose her title and be kicked out of the family, and her happiness is wrapped up in both. She says she can’t because of the royal family. Dazzle suggests she convert to Roman Catholicism the Catholic Church demands submission, and he and Margaret both need that. The princess realises they need never have been hidden, and her family’s conduct has been “unforgivable”.įor Margaret’s own depression, she is prescribed medication, psychotherapy and more exercise. Margaret’s therapist does more digging and discovers that the genetic fault came from the Clinton family (Jock’s wife Fenella’s line) so there was no chance it could affect the Royals. Margaret names all the Bowes-Lyon cousins who were put away: Katherine, Nerissa, Idonea, Etheldreda and Rosemary. The Windsor side has enough mental illness of its own: King George III, her uncle Prince John. The Queen Mother believes the bloodline of the Royals has to be impeccable to give it legitimacy, and the conditions the women were put away for as young girls – then called “idiocy and imbecility” – would have risked making the Windsors’ right to rule untenable. Margaret is horrified and ties it to her own treatment by the family. Mother and daughter go for a walk on the beach where the Queen Mother tries to justify the family’s actions in putting the cousins away, linking it all back to the abdication, which changed everything. Margaret travels to the Queen Mother’s Scottish home, the Castle of Mey, where she is about to have a lunch party. The women have pictures of the royal family “which they know is their family.” There are also other cousins there with the same condition. Margaret is unconvinced, and sends Dazzle – now training to be a priest – off to visit them in Redhill to check the veracity of the story, which he confirms. The Queen admits she knows of them but says they’re both long dead together they check Burke’s Peerage which says the same. Margaret has no idea about them, but does her research. She asks, she says, because she is aware of her Bowes-Lyon cousins via her contacts in the sector. Diana is pregnant again and Charles is seeing a therapist he’s promised Anne he would suggest Margaret do the same thing.īack in London, Margaret starts seeing a therapist, who asks her about other family members with mental health issues. She talks of the house as gone to seed, past its heyday, and it’s unspoken that she feels she has gone the same way. Margaret travels to the island of Mustique to stay with her old friends, the Tennants. Margaret is furious and devastated but her sister says they have to abide by the rules. Now Prince Edward is of age and is a child of the sovereign, he’s ahead of Margaret, who must relinquish her role as a councillor of state. She will no longer be deputising for the Queen as it only needs six. The Queen goes to visit her at Kensington Palace, accompanied by Martin Charteris (“Lurch”, Margaret calls him), to let Margaret know she is moving her to the outer edges. She wants more responsibility, and more work. She tells the Queen she’s giving up men and cigarettes and wants to focus on royal duties. Philip makes a funny but mocking speech about Edward: his first two children were duty, the last two… “joy” interjects the Queen. On Katherine Bowes-Lyon’s birthday she gets a plain cake with one candle. It’s Edward’s 21st birthday, celebrated with a huge family meal and a massive cake. Margaret, by now 54, has investigative surgery in london. The Queen tells her Dazzle is actually gay, and the reason he looks at Margaret the way he does is because she’s “a royal princess and he’s a raging snob.” Margaret stats coughing there’s blood on her hankie. Margaret explains it to the Queen later on he’s left her to train as a Roman Catholic priest. She wants to be intimate with him – they’ve been close for a while – but he has something to tell her. They dance around the room drinking champagne. They are Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, the daughters of the Queen Mother’s late brother Jock.ĭerek “Dazzle” Jennings arrives at Margaret’s on his bicycle. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are attending the performance – in an institution, two middle-aged women watch the Queen arrive, standing for the national anthem. Princess Margaret is smoking, coughing and doing her make up, getting ready for something while the Royal Variety Performance starts on her TV. “The hereditary principle already hangs by such a precarious thread.” Or read my episode recaps: episode 1 (Gold Stick), episode 2 (The Balmoral Test), episode 3 (Fairytale), episode 4 (Favourites), episode 5 (Fagan), episode 6 (Terra Nullius), episode 8 (48:1), episode 9 (Avalanche), and episode 10 (War).
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