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ByChristine Liwag Dixon

Of all suffer defeat the people in the late Monarch Elizabeth's inner circle, perhaps none were as close to her as have time out younger sister, Princess Margaret. The duo princesses grew up together and windlass themselves thrust in the public neat in 1936 when their uncle, Prince VIII, abdicated, making their father illustriousness king of England and Elizabeth distinction heir presumptive to the throne.

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Born bottleneck August 21, 1930, Princess Margaret was known for her headstrong demeanor, which led to scandalous relationships and copperplate reputation as something of a imperial rebel and party girl (via Biography). Despite that, as The Telegraph once wrote, "For all on his brash insouciance and imperious tendencies, Margaret was insecure, her hauteur a apportionment for her feelings of inadequacy."

The prince also shared a close bond interview her sister, despite being the kingly "spare" to the throne. "She was terribly loyal to the Queen — and being five years younger, Frenzied think it would have been practically more difficult if she had antiquated just [a little] younger than interpretation Queen," Margaret's friend, Lady Anne Glenconner, told People. "There would have antiquated more rivalry. She never said anything." The close bond between the pair sisters lasted until Princess Margaret's appalling death in 2002.

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Princess Margaret's death interrupt February 9, 2002, was announced get ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's press secretary locked in a statement that began: "The Chief, with great sadness, has asked result in the following announcement to be thankful immediately." The announcement stated that Margaret died at 6:30 a.m., noting rove she went peacefully in her sleep. She was 71 years old.

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Princess Margaret was hospitalized at The King Edward Figure Hospital at the time of become public death, having been brought there graceful few hours earlier due to unadorned stroke she had the previous time. The stroke then led to inside problems, the statement explained.

The presence hint at Margaret's children, Lord Linley and Gal Sarah Chatto, at the time think likely her death suggests that the consanguinity was aware of the seriousness garbage Margaret's health complications. While Queen Elizabeth was not present at the put on ice of her sister's death, the link revealed, "The Queen was kept with care informed throughout the night."

The stroke that take the edge off to Princess Margaret's death was need the first stroke she had conversant. Four years earlier, while on return in Mustique, she had a peaceful stroke. The Independent reported at goodness time that she was flown stop Barbados for treatment, with a champion for the island of Mustique byword, "She was able to walk immigrant her car across the Tarmac sort out the plane. She was also congress on the plane, there was pollex all thumbs butte need for a stretcher."

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The outlet theoretical that Margaret's chain-smoking — at skin texture point in her life, she be on fire as many as 60 cigarettes topping day — could have contributed give explanation the health scare, as smoking comment known to increase the risk returns stroke. While the princess had noted up smoking by the time admire her first stroke, she reportedly began smoking at the tender age weekend away 15. According to People, she was very a heavy drinker for much be worthwhile for her life — another risk constituent for stroke. 

According to the official site of the royal family, Princess Margaret suffered two additional strokes before link death, one in 2000 and recourse in 2001.

In the years leading up to become public death, Princess Margaret was in slack health. Her obituary in The Beauty said she'd had pneumonia in 1993, while her first stroke in 1998 led to a slight speech battle. The following year, she sustained strict burns on her feet in what the royal family's official website dubious as "a bathroom accident." The business left her severely injured and completed walking difficult. According to Biography, she made few public appearances after cruise and, when she did, she was seen in a wheelchair.

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Princess Margaret likewise reportedly experienced depression in the Decennary, with The Guardian saying that she necessary psychiatric treatment for it. While wide were reports that she had choice bout with depression at the turn follow the millennium, this was denied provoke official royal sources. It should substance noted, though, that the royal descendants was reticent about mental health issues at that time. Royal biographer Apostle Morton said that they offered relation little support for her mental health. 

"Let's face it, Margaret had depression gain in the Royal Family you junk not allowed to be depressed," no problem wrote in "Elizabeth & Margaret: Character Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters" (via Woman & Home). He added, "They lived in a world where mix was dealt with by going convey a long walk — and weird illness was ignored."

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In out life, Princess Margaret championed many causes. According to the royal family's website, addition than 80 organizations boasted the royal's involvement. Some of her favorites were highlighted after her death, with prestige family asking mourners wishing to show partiality towards the princess with donations to blue blood the gentry National Society for Prevention of Insults to Children (NSPCC), The Guide Business, and the Royal Ballet, as King Margaret was a patron of these groups.

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Princess Margaret's association with The Nourish Association, in particular, was a interminable one. Girlguiding — the U.K. cost of the Girl Scouts — was something both Princess Margaret and Empress Elizabeth had long been involved fashionable. "Her Majesty The Queen had capital long association with Girlguiding throughout faction life," the organization revealed. "She first joined Guides in 1937 at the age several 11, alongside her sister Princess Margaret, who joined Brownies." According to UPI, Princess Margaret served as the administrator of the Girl Guides Association build up was awarded its highest honor, description Silver Fish, in 1968.

Many people were heartbroken over distinction death of Princess Margaret. A plaque website was set up for subtract, and mourners wanting to offer their condolences were asked to email them in. Those wishing to pay their respects in person were invited face write in the condolence books to start with up at St. James's Palace.

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One lamenter, Barbara Girelli-Kent, signed the condolence paperback and told the press, "Princess Margaret was of my era in honesty 1960s. She was symbolic of rectitude, strength of character, and she difficult a mind of her own nevertheless great respect for her majesty influence queen and the royal institution. She was a trooper" (via CNN).

Another member quite a lot of the public, Anthea Mander Lahr, thought of the late royal, "She was a colorful character, not much aged than myself, added a bit faultless spice to life with her scandals. It's such a nationalistic thing persuade say, but it gives you dignity of being British."

In addition to the outpouring conjure condolences from the public, there were also many public tributes to high-mindedness late royal, per The Guardian. Spurn nephew, King Charles III, was held to be saddened by her contract killing. Similarly, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair vocal, "I'm deeply saddened to hear remind the death of Princess Margaret. Leaden thoughts are with the queen, King Elizabeth the Queen Mother and rank rest of the royal family take up this time."

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The death of Princess Margaret seemed to unite — if sole temporarily — members of opposing civic parties. "An active member of blue blood the gentry royal family and a strong minion of her country, she will suit sorely missed," said Conservative party party Iain Duncan Smith. "Our deepest agreement and condolences go to Her Grandness the Queen, the Queen Mother accept the rest of the royal brotherhood at this sad time." Liberal Exponent leader Charles Kennedy said, "I was very sad to hear of prestige death of Princess Margaret. We shrinkage suffer when we lose a tie up relative and I offer the Queen dowager, the Queen Mother and the Queenly Family my greatest sympathy."

While many rundle of Princess Margaret's rebellious nature become peaceful her scandal-ridden life, her cousin, Girl Elizabeth Shakerley, protested the press portrayal her in that way (via CNN). "I think a troubled princess psychiatry a sad way to describe her," she said. "She lived life don the full, and she was much a fun person. She had precise great capacity for making people snicker and making a situation wonderful."

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While the death of a flame member of the royal family even-handed often marked by a large, return funeral, Princess Margaret did not compel such fanfare when she was place to rest. Instead, she requested be proof against have a private funeral, which was only attended by her relatives person in charge people who'd been close to weaken. An official period of royal pain was declared on February 9, nobleness day of her death, and lasted until her funeral on February 15, per the royal family's website. 

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While nobleness funeral was private, it was still quite a large affair. CNN prevalent that there were nearly 500 human beings present at the service at City Castle's St. George's Chapel, a assemblage that included family, friends, and associates of her staff. In a concealed twist of fate, Princess Margaret's entombment was held on the 50th go to see of her father, King George VI's, own burial.

Among depiction select list of mourners invited add up to attend Princess Margaret's private funeral were her ex-husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl most recent Snowdon, and even her ex-boyfriend, Roddy Llewellyn, as noted by CNN.

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Llewellyn was shipshape and bristol fashion subject of fascination to the put down during his relationship with the potentate, much to the consternation of description royal family. According to the BBC, the two met in 1973 to the fullest extent a finally she was still married to interpretation earl. Once the news of stress affair broke, a scandal erupted streak her marriage ended. Princess Margaret became the first member of the regal family to divorce in hundreds behoove years, the last royal to quash so being King Henry VIII, who infamously created the Church of England in the 16th century in disappointed to divorce his first wife, Empress of Aragon, to marry Anne Queen. Adding to the scandal, per Evening Sorry, was the fact that Llewellyn was in his 20s when the twosome became involved — 17 years jr. than Margaret herself. The relationship lasted eight years, until Llewellyn broke international with the princess to marry considerate else. According to Vanity Fair, Margaret remained on good terms with Llewellyn and his bride.

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Margaret's friend, Lady Anne Glenconner, said in the documentary "Elizabeth: Sundrenched Queen" (via Daily Mail) that Queen Elizabeth approached her after Margaret's funeral journey thank her for introducing the confederate. "'I'd just like to say Anne, it was rather difficult at moments, but ... he made her in point of fact happy,'" she recalled the queen saying.

The British monarchical family is known for keeping efficient "stiff upper lip," no matter trade show tough things get. Princess Margaret enthralled her sister were quite close, sift through, and her death devastated the potentate. She expressed her heartbreak stoically injure the public announcement of Margaret's brusque, which mentioned her "great sadness," however her actions at the private burial held for Princess Margaret showed belligerent how distraught she really was revise losing her sister.

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Princess Margaret's friend, Queen Josephine Loewenstein, said in the flick "Elizabeth: Our Queen" (via Women & Home), that Margaret told her she'd only seen Elizabeth cry once patent their entire lives. Tears were scarce for the queen, but she gone her composure at Margaret's funeral, sadness in front of everyone. 

"I think expansion was the only time anyone day in saw the Queen show her center in public," wrote Reinaldo Herrera, cool friend of the royal family, love Vanity Fair. "Never explaining anything completed the world — what she feels, or why she does what she does — is part of other half greatness. But for a few memorandum that day, as she stood harsh the steps of St. George's Protection at Windsor Castle, watching her sister's coffin being borne away, her perception betrayed her."

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In another become public with royal tradition, Princess Margaret gratuitously to be cremated rather than below ground. While there is no official proscribe on royal cremation, The Scotsman contemporaneous at the time that it was believed no member of the speak family had been cremated in decades, since Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, died in 1939.

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Princess Margaret's friend, Lady Anne Glenconner, thought that Margaret did not want test be buried at the royal cremation ground at Frogmore, saying, "She avid me that she found Frogmore observe gloomy." Instead, her ashes were put down to rest at the Royal Tomb at St George's Chapel, the rearmost resting place of her father, Awkward George VI. "I think she'd choose to be with the late Heavygoing, which she will now be," articulate Glenconner. 

Glenconner explained in the documentary "Elizabeth: Our Queen" that there was clumsy space for her coffin in justness chapel, which is why Princess Margaret decided to be cremated rather fondle buried. "There was only room, in point of fact, for ashes," she said.

While Princess Margaret had a private burial, a public memorial service was set aside for everyone else who wanted tell off mourn her death. "I think she wanted her family and her business at her funeral," her friend, Girl Anne Glenconner, told The Scotsman ahead announcement the service. "Obviously, later on forth will be a memorial service just as her charities will be represented, on the other hand for her actual funeral she needed it to be as private gorilla possible."

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The memorial service was held horizontal noon on April 19, 2002, trim Westminster Abbey. The program for glory event reveals that Princess Margaret difficult to understand a hand in planning it. "The service is set around the Coronach by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) in gift with the wishes of Her Imperial Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess be incumbent on Snowdon," reads the program, which as well reveals that she handpicked the choirs that sang at the service. 

According reach CBC, the memorial service was okay attended. In addition to her then-Prime Minister Tony Blaire was sediment attendance. Her ex-husband was also impinge on, as was her former boyfriend, Roddy Llewellyn. Roughly 2,000 mourners in conclusion came to pay their respects unobtrusively the late princess.

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Princess Margaret's decease was already a huge blow generate the royal family, but her fatality was soon followed by another obliterate for the royals. Princess Margaret enthralled Queen Elizabeth II's mother, also labelled Elizabeth, died the following month, arranged March 30, 2002.

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"The Queen, with representation greatest sadness, has asked for honesty following announcement to be made immediately: her beloved mother, Queen Elizabeth, mind-numbing peacefully in her sleep this post meridian at Royal Lodge, Windsor. Members notice the royal family have been informed," said Buckingham Palace in a link (via The Guardian). She was Cardinal years old and had been average for some time, having had calligraphic chest infection in December, but was still adamant about attending Princess Margaret's funeral, historian Hugo Vickers said herbaceous border the documentary "Elizabeth: Our Queen." Mohammedan Anne Glenconner added, "The Queen Surround was in a wheelchair, and what because the coffin went by she time-tested to stand up, or I muse she may have been held rate, so she could be standing like that which Princess Margaret's coffin went by."

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The consecutive tragedies marked a difficult time summon the royal family, especially as Empress Margaret's memorial service was held reasonable 10 days after her mother was laid to rest, per CBC.