Ma'am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a 2017 book on the life of Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, written by Craig Brown.[1] It was published in the United States in 2018 as Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.[2]

Ma'am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Cover of 2017 UK hardback
AuthorCraig Brown
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherFourth Estate (UK)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)
Publication date
21 September 2017
Pages432
ISBN978-0008203610

The book consists of "essays, lists, catalogues, diaries, palace announcements, newspaper cuttings and interviews, as well as parodies".[1]

The book won the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the biography category.[3] It was well received by literary critics, with review aggregator Bookmarks reporting zero negative and two mixed reviews among 14 total, indicating "rave" reviews.[4]

Speaking in 2019, Princess Margaret's close friend and lady-in-waiting Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, described Ma'am Darling as "that horrible book, we won't mention the name of the somebody who wrote it. I don't know why people want to rot her like that."[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Cooke, Rachel (17 September 2017). "Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. ^ Heller, Karen (1 August 2018). "Princess Margaret's beauty and arrogance are on parade in 'Ninety-Nine Glimpses'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Prize for 'unconventional' royal biography". BBC News. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Book Marks reviews of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown".
  5. ^ Freeman, Hadley (20 March 2020). "'I'm no snowflake': Anne Glenconner on Margaret, marriage and Meghan Markle". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2020.