While many described her as a rather depressed personality, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's younger sister, is said to have enjoyed the jet-set life to the full. Margaret, who died in 2002 at the age of 71, was considered a dazzling personality who experienced many highs and lows. Despite their different character traits, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth were always very close.
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This was precisely the reason why the relationship between the late Queen Elizabeth II and the former and future US President Donald Trump was apparently strained.
Princess Margaret: The Queen's younger sister
Princess Margaret was known for her elegance and charm as well as her fight. After a fling with a rockstar, she fell in love with a divorced man. A no-go for the British royals at the time. Under pressure from the Royal Family, Princess Margaret had to end her relationship with Peter Townsend. A decision that the Queen's younger sister would regret for the rest of her life. In 1960, she married Antony Armstrong Jones, the Earl of Snowdon. However, this partnership, which produced a son and a daughter, broke up in 1978.
A long-time smoker, Princess Margaret repeatedly struggled with health problems in the years that followed, even having to have part of her lung removed. After suffering a stroke in 2001, she was confined to a wheelchair due to left-sided paralysis. On February 9, 2002, Princess Margaret died as a result of another stroke. Her funeral was one of the rare occasions when Queen Elizabeth showed emotion in public - she visibly wept.
A painful moment during the state visit
In 2018, Donald Trump visited the UK with his wife Melania during his first term as US President. While Donald Trump emphasized how good his relationship with the Queen was, tensions apparently arose behind the scenes. The businessman-turned-politician is said to have made a comment about Princess Margaret that deeply offended Queen Elizabeth II.
According to an insider involved in organizing Donald Trump's visit, the Queen is said to have found the comment 'ignorant and hurtful'. Although the exact statement is not known, it appeared to concern Margaret's difficult past or her status in the Royal Family.
According to the Daily Mail, an insider reportedly said:
Trump put his foot in it by saying Margaret must have been a difficult sister. The Queen was very annoyed with this remark, which she viewed as ignorant and hurtful. She always defended Margaret to the hilt.
The Queen reportedly found Donald Trump 'hurtful'
This new revelation fits in with reports that Donald Trump was anything but Queen Elizabeth's 'favourite president'. Rather, she is said to have been irritated by his behaviour even before his rude comments about her younger sister. In Craig Brown's book A Voyage Around The Queen, it is said that the Queen confided to a guest that she found Donald Trump's way of not looking at her during meetings, but instead constantly glancing over her shoulder, rude. To her, it gave the impression that he was looking for someone 'more interesting'.
Donald Trump maintains he had a good relationship with the Queen
Donald Trump has so far vigorously rejected reports of disagreements between him and the British Queen. Instead, he emphasizes his good relationship with her. He allegedly said, as per the Daily Mail:
I had a great relationship with the Queen. She liked me and I liked her. She was an incredible woman.
The fact is that the Queen has always been known for her discretion. She has rarely spoken publicly about her opinions on international heads of state. However, there have been numerous reports of minor gaffes during Donald Trump's state visits. For example, disregarding protocol and certain customs.
But with his comments about Princess Margaret, Donald Trump seems to have hit a particularly sore spot with the late monarch. For the Queen, family was always a central focus of her life - and disrespectful remarks about her sister were certainly difficult to forgive.
This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag DE.
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Daily Mail: How Donald Trump allegedly 'annoyed' the Queen with comment about her sister Margaret
