What on earth brought on Craig Brown’s intense interest in the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret? Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesBut mostly it was because Ma’am Darling is fascinating. Which was probably just as well, given my head was stuck, for all to see, inside an improbably huge book about Princess Margaret. Brown has done something amazing with Ma’am Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasn’t reinvented the biographical form. Subtitled 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, it is described by his publisher (which, infuriatingly, hasn’t given him an index) as “kaleidoscopic”.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2017 05:26 UTC