Prince Harry described Princess Margaret’s present as “cold blooded” in his memoir (Image: Getty)
Prince Harry wrote that he once received a “cold-blooded” Christmas present from Princess Margaret but said he wished he had had more time to get to know her.
Writing his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex wrote that said “cold-blooded” Christmas present was a biro wrapped in a tiny rubber fish.
Elaborating on his relationship with the woman he referred to as “Aunt Margo”, Harry explained how his emotions towards her tragically warmed as he matured but Margaret’s health declined.
He admitted that the Christmas present had initially confirmed his theories about her feelings for him, explaining: “Growing up, I felt nothing for her, except a bit of pity and a lot of jumpiness. She could kill a houseplant with one scowl. Mostly, whenever she was around, I kept my distance.
“On those rarer-than-rare occasions when our paths crossed, when she deigned to take notice of me, to speak to me, I’d wonder if she had an opinion of me. It seemed that she didn’t. Or else, given her tone, her coldness, the opinion wasn’t much.”
Princess Margaret (Image: Getty)
On hearing that Margaret had fallen ill, and as his own personality developed further, Harry wrote that he realised he and his aunt had a lot more in common than he originally thought, particularly in relation to their respective relationships with their elder siblings.
He said: “Now and then, as I grew older, it struck me that Aunt Margo and I should’ve been friends. We had so much in common. Two Spares. Her relationship with Granny wasn’t an exact dialogue of mine with Willy, but pretty close.
“The simmering rivalry, the intense competition…it all looked familiar. Aunt Margo also wasn’t that dissimilar from Mummy. Both rebels, both labelled as sirens. So, my first thought when I learned in early 2002 that she’d been taken ill was to wish there’d been more time to get to know her.”
A reminder of ’s ruminations about members of his family come as he is encouraged by some to extend an olive branch to his father King Charles are a tumultuous year for senior members of the Royal Family that included cancer diagnoses for the monarch, his sister-in-law the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, and the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.
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Royal biographer says he believes a royal reconciliation could be possible if Harry pulls himself together as he believes the Duke is the one making things difficult.
He told The Sun: “He’s the one who needs to pull himself together and extend the olive branch because he is the one making it difficult between them.
“The most successful members of the Royal Family are the ones who support the King in what he’s doing, and they don’t compete with him.”