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Sadly I couldn't work in this tremendous description of Princess Margaret's morning routine, as reported in Craig Brown's fantastic biography Ma'am Darling
9.00 A.M.: She has breakfast in bed, followed by two hours in bed listening to the radio, reading the newspapers (‘which she invariably left scattered over the floor’) and chain-smoking. 11.00 A.M.: She gets into a bath run for her by her lady’s maid. NOON: An hour in the bath is followed by hair and make-up at her dressing table, then she puts on clean clothes – ‘as one would imagine of a Princess, she never wore any of her clothes more than once without having them cleaned’. 12.30 P.M.: She appears downstairs for a vodka pick-me-up. 1.00 P.M.: She joins the Queen Mother for a four-course lunch ‘served in an informal manner from silver dishes’, with half a bottle of wine per person plus ‘fruit and half a dozen different varieties of native and Continental cheeses’.
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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And here's a tremendous BBC Archive clip of Eartha Kitt sampling a taste of tripe and learning from some Yorkshire locals how to sing On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vud...
1970: Why EARTHA KITT Loves Life in YORKSHIRE | Nationwide | Classic Celebrity profile | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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January 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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[he chuckles]
October 6, 2024 at 10:24 PM