The Trouble with HRH
Christopher Hitchens, 5 June 1997
Princess Margaret: A Biography
by Theo Aronson.
O’Mara, 336 pp., £16.99, February 1997,1 85479 248 2 Show More
by Theo Aronson.
O’Mara, 336 pp., £16.99, February 1997,
“... should be present for any royal birth. (This ‘ancient tradition’ dated back to the reign of King James II and the rumour about the ‘warming-pan baby’ delivered covertly to his consort, Mary of Modena.) So J.R. Clynes, Home Secretary to Ramsay MacDonald, had to journey to Glamis Castle and wait for 16 days for the waters to break. He passed the time ... ”