Biography Queen Elizabeth II of England at Balmoral Castle in 1952. Photo: Bettmann Archive Buckingham Palace can’t have been thrilled to discover that Craig Brown was writing one of his “quasi-biographies” about Queen Elizabeth. In 2017, the great satirist had cheerfully eviscerated Princess Margaret in his book Ma’am Darling , which portrayed her as bossy, demanding, petty and volatile, in short “the world’s most difficult guest”.
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