Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Margaret's behavior was a field day for London's popular press. The Sunday News of the World bluntly asked its readers: "Do you think Princess Margaret gives us value for our money?" (Three out of four readers answered no.) Even some traditional supporters of the royal family were critical of Margaret and her relationship with Roddy. "I consider Princess Margaret to have completely let the side down," complained one saddened letter writer to the pro-Tory Evening Standard. Declared the Bishop of Truro, Graham Leonard: "If you accept the public life, you must accept a severe...
...principal complaint against Margaret is that she has embarrassed the royal family by carrying on a more or less open dalliance with a younger man, without seeking a divorce from her estranged husband, Lord Snowdon; the two have been separated since March 1976. The princess first met Roddy in 1974 at a house party in Scotland. As her marriage to Snowdon cooled, Roddy began making ever more frequent visits to Kensington Palace, Margaret's London home. Later the princess and her new companion made a series of unchaperoned holiday visits, without her two children, to the languid Caribbean isle...
...been doing her job all that well lately. Last year she attended only 86 of the civic, cultural or charitable functions that protocol requires her to attend, compared with an average of 115 in the years before her marriage crumbled. So far in 1978 she has made only twelve royal appearances, although her schedule suddenly became busier after Elizabeth's talk at Windsor Castle. Before the flu hit her last week, the princess was due in Edinburgh to attend the annual meeting of the Scottish Children's League, followed by the annual meeting of the Royal Scottish Society...
While critics insist that Margaret should either shape up or retire completely to private life (meaning off the public dole), the princess also has some sympathetic defenders. Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne of the Daily Telegraph, a staunch monarchist, insists that "royal black sheep there are bound to be" and argues that it is no crime for a Windsor woman to admire younger men, particularly in England's second Elizabethan age. "Admittedly," adds Worsthorne in afterthought, "Roddy Llewellyn is no Essex or Walter Raleigh, but then she herself is no virgin queen." The princess's defenders also recall Margaret...
...prove a difficult thing to change eating habits. As the University of Florida's Kelly points out, though, scientists might take a lesson from history. When Louis XVI tried to popularize potatoes in France during the 18th century, the people refused to eat them-until he established a royal potato garden, which the peasants promptly invaded to get at the King's new crop...