Princess Margaret said her sister was considered as a saintly queen while she was cast as the 'malicious' one. Princess Margaret said she and her sister were often reduced to archetypes fit for a fairytale. William the cautious matched against reckless Harry,' Andrew Morton said.

'Charles the patient versus Andrew the foolish. The House of Windsor has a history of producing a dutiful, conservative heir followed by a charming, slightly dangerous, sibling. Read our full coverage on the death of the Queen.Look back at how the world paid its respects to Queen Elizabeth II.

'Throughout their lives Elizabeth and Margaret butted heads - the sensible, older sister matched with the mischievous, wilful little sister.'īut their devotion would be tested by a doomed romance, a looming constitutional crisis and a string of scandals. 'Margaret was her sister's alter ego,' he wrote in Elizabeth and Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters. ( Wikimedia Commons)īut these women shared a 'primal bond', according to biographer Andrew Morton. King George VI said of his daughters: 'Elizabeth is my pride, and Margaret is my joy'.

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