Princess Margaret Dies; World Tributes

to mind the example she has set for all of us of subordinating personal agenda to the call of duty. May her ardent and generous spirit find that peace in death towards which Her Royal Highness ranged, elusively, in life.

In England BBC TV cancelled its scheduled evening programmes in order to show a warm tribute to the late Princess. Leaning heavily on archive film it showed interviews with a number of friends including Group Captain Peter Townsend whom she gave up thoughts of marrying because of his position as a divorcee. Flags flew at half mastat the Royal residences and thoughout the country.

All the British Sunday tabloids devoted their front pages to a full page photo of Princess Margaret in her days of radiant beauty and carried 12 page or more picture supplements chronicling the story of her life. Typical banner headlines were: "The Tragic Princess",(Sunday People); "Margaret loved life and lived it to the full",(Mail on Sunday); "Her final hours",(Sunday Express); and the charming accolade of the Scottish Sunday Post "Margaret the perfect Royal Mother".

Obituaries filed 11 February, London.
Telegraph
Full obituary.

The Times
Full obituary.

The Times
'Royal romantic with a Stuart gene'. Personal reminiscences about the Princess An important and revealing insight into the Princess by William Rees Mogg.

Short obituaries and stories about the Princess's life appeared in press and on TV around the world on 9 and 10 February. Here is a hotlinked selection.

Sydney, Australia.

Sydney Morning Herald
The Princess whose life was no fairytale. Australia saddened too says PM John Howard.

New York, USA.

New York Times
Princess Margaret dies at 71. Long obituary by Joseph R. Gregory.

Berlin, Federal Republic Germany

Welt am Sonntag
Tod der traurigen Prinzessin. Obituary by Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert

Edinburgh, Scotland

Scotsman
Tortured life of a royal in the shadows.

Scotsman
Giving a touch of romance to Royal Family.

Scotsman
The heavy smoker who was plagued by ill health as all her vitality slowly ebbed away.

London, England

The Times
Princess Margaret dies. Full story.

The Times
Princess Margaret: The Tributes. Quotes from national leaders around the world. Story.

The Times Obituary
An abridged version of the full obituary for The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, which will appear in Monday's issue of the Times.

Telegraph
King's daughter - but her life was no fairytale.

Telegraph
Style icon from the House of Windsor.

Telegraph
Grandson's party cheered Margaret.Story.

Guardian
Obituary by Charles Nevin from the republican Guardian/Observer broadsheets,

BBC. Margaret: a life of

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