Royal enthusiasts have been left stunned by Princess Margaret’s “daily routine”, which intriguingly included a “vodka pick-me-up”.
A snippet from Craig Brown’s book ‘Ma’am Darling’ that details how the Countess of Snowden began her days in the 1950s was recently posted on the r/RoyalsGossip forum on Reddit.
The book claims Margaret would rise at 9am for “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”.
At 11am, she would indulge in an hour-long bath, followed by “hair and make-up at her dressing table” at midday.
The book notes that she would also dress in “clean clothes”, adding that “as one would imagine of a Princess, she never wore any of her clothes more than once without having them cleaned”.
Margaret would descend downstairs “for a vodka pick-me-up” at 12.30pm, as per Brown’s account. The excerpt wraps up by detailing how, at 1pm, she would join the Queen Mother “for a four-course lunch ‘served in an informal manner from silver dishes'”.
This would comprise “half a bottle of wine per person plus ‘fruit and half a dozen different varieties of native and Continental cheeses’,” the book continues.
Royal enthusiasts on Reddit were particularly tickled by one detail of Margaret’s daily routine. One user exclaimed: “I aspire to having vodka pick-me-ups in the middle of the day.”
Another chimed in with: “‘Vodka pick-me-up’ at 12.30. The working classes refer to this as the midday miniature – we’re not so different after all!”
Yet, it wasn’t just the royal tipple that sparked conversation. A further comment read: “Ok can we talk about the whole she only wore clean clothes ‘as one would imagine of a princess’ bit.” Prompting a witty response from another user: “The one way I’m like a princess.”
