Posted on 02/09/2002 12:14:34 AM PST by badfreeper
Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, has died "peacefully in her sleep" at the age of 71. In a statement Buckingham Palace said: "The Queen, with great sadness, has asked for the following announcement to be made immediately.
"Her beloved sister, Princess Margaret, died peacefully in her sleep this morning at 6.30am in the King Edward VII Hospital."
Her children Lord Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto were at her side at the London hospital.
Princess Margaret, who has suffered several strokes in recent years, suffered a further stroke on Friday afternoon.
She developed cardiac problems during the night and was taken from Kensington Palace to the hospital at 0230GMT.
She was born Margaret Rose on 21 August, 1930, at Glamis Castle in Scotland, the ancestral home of her mother's family.
Margaret was last seen in public before Christmas at Princess Alice, the Dowager Duchess of Gloucester's 100th birthday party.
She was confined to a wheelchair and wore heavy dark glasses, her sight having been affected by a stroke. Margaret's face also appeared puffy, understood to be the effects of medication.
© MMII
She introduced cancer sticks to many by making it acceptable, thereby causing many deaths. It is part of her legacy!
Yet yesterday at our parish Mass, prayers were (unexpectedly) offered for the soul of "Her Highness, Princess Margaret Rose of the House of Windsor". I thought my heart would burst from joy. Maybe there is reason to hope after all.
Yes, we should all be 147 when we die.
Do you remember what it was like to eat solid food?
What did you say?
I said: 'SOLID FOOD'. your prosthetic eardrum has a hole in it again.
Don't start in with that nasty 'hole' obsession of yours--I told you I won't tolerate such talk in my presence.
Yeah. I'll bet you never had a woman in your life.
I AM a woman you lout. If I could walk I'd come over there right now and rip you off your cardio-vascular machine!
I think you just nailed it Byron.
It's no big deal. Her 3 pack a day habit and her being an original role model for females to smoke is historic.
I have been happily dating my estate attorney for quite a while. Nice lady! Doesn't bark like you at all. Doesn’t need to.
You remind me of the Henny Youngman joke. Why do married men die first? Because they want to! LOL
What absolute nonsense.
Yes, they are, and in the case of the nightcrawlers we've seen on this thread, those sins are amplified many times by the anonimity of the Internet.
But don't distress yourself my dear Tex, that rabble is only a tiny percentage of the posters here. When the Queen Mother passes away, which tonight sadly looks to be imminent, there'll be many retrospectives of her life on TV. Perhaps afterwards those of the Royal Family's critics with any self honesty will grudgingly acknowledge that by and large their lives have been of great service to Britain; particularly during storms like WWII.
The Younger Sister
By Andrew Motion
"The luxuries, of course, and privilege -
The money, houses, holidays, the lot:
All these were real, and all these drove a wedge
Between your life and ours. And yet the thought
Of how no privilege on earth can keep
A life from suffering in love and loss -
This means we turn to you and see how deep
The current runs between yourself and us.
And now death spells it out again, and more,
As it becomes your final human act:
A daughter gone before her mother goes;
A younger sister heading on before;
A woman in possession of the fact
That love and duty speak two languages."
Where's Philip Larkin when we need him?
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