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| • | "made headlines last week by smoking in public", Time Magazine, Nov. 14, '49
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| • | "Margaret made the most of the 1954 Season. It was at this time that, in a spirit of defiance, she started smoking in public - fine for the factory bench but considered a faux pas in society; and her extra-long tortoiseshell holder soon became her trademark...'My vices are cigarettes and drink,' she said. 'And I don't see myself giving those up'...she stood expectantly waiting for someone to light the cigarette she inserted into her holder...When Margaret took out a cigarette to place in her holder, Roddy [her boyfriend], who smoked almost as many, would light it", "H.R.H.The Princess Margaret: A Life Unfulfilled" by Nigel Dempster, '81 |
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| • | "formerly a three-pack-a-day smoker", Time Magazine, Mar. 9, '88
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| • | "Princess Margaret smoked, and she drank, and she flirted", The New York Review of Books, Sep. 24, '92
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| • | "Even after an operation to remove part of her lung, Princess Margaret kept smoking", Daily Express (UK), Mar. 9, '93 |
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| • | quit - biography, '93 |
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| • | "we noted that she'd been reported as taking up smoking again. 'It was five years ago that the Princess decided to give up her 60-a-day habit after a bout of chronic pneumonia and several rumored cancer scares,' said the Daily Express (Sept. 9). 'But the other day while dining at Aubergine, the swish London restaurant, she was seen tucking into a packet of her favorite American cigarettes, L & Ms.", People Daily, Sep. 16, '96
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| • | "During Elizabeth's longest stay in Malta, her sister [Princess Margaret] came to visit, and the prospect of the glamorous, pouty-lipped Princess with her long, ornate cigarette holder and strapless gowns excited the bachelor contingent stationed on the small island.", "[About her and her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones] Clever, witty, and sharp-tongued, both were petite rebels who chain-smoked cigarettes and slavered over pornographic movies.", "She took a picture of him dressed as a child: he took a picture of her posing in his tuxedo, holding a cigar.", "Both chain-smoked and drank too much.", "'Which Queen are you referring to?' said this Princess, waving her cigarette holder. 'My sister, my mother, or my husband?'", "For years the public made allowances for Princess Margaret, tolerating her minor transgressions such as smoking in public and showing up late for royal events.", "Her doctors warned her to stop smoking and drinking, but she did not listen until she was hospitalized with gastroenteritis and alcoholic hepatitis.", "The Royals" by Kitty Kelley, '97, pgs. 92, 176, 178, 221, 223, 242, 245 |
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| • | "once smoked 60 cigarettes a day", but "she cut down to 30 a day - smoked through her distinctive long holder. In 1993 she finally managed to quit for good", "one of her less appealing habits was to stub out her cigarettes in a plate of food" w/holder picture, Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 25, '98 |
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| • | "at one time she was a 60-a-day smoker", "was an extremely heavy smoker", w/holder picture, The Express (UK), Feb. 25, '98 |
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| • | quit - "a former 60-a-day smoker", "used to be a heavy smoker", "black cigarette holder", w/holder picture, The Mirror (UK), Feb. 25, '98 |
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| • | "Princess Margaret was hooked on smoking for 40 years... Margaret got through 60 a day at the height of her addiction. She struggled to cut down to 30... A royal source said 'Margaret really enjoyed smoking - it is simple as that. Her father, King George VI, was a smoker, and she embraced the habit with great enthusiasm. She started smoking in an era when it was considered to be very chic and fashionable. She made repeated efforts to stop after warnings from doctors, then started again. But for the last two years she hasn't lit up a single cigarette'", The Sun (UK), Feb. 25, '98 |
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| • | quit - "has been a heavy smoker, although she gave up some years ago", Irish News, Feb. 25, '98
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| • | "Margaret...was a 60-a-day woman...and some pals says she was puffing up to the day of her stroke", News of The World (UK), Mar. 1, '98 |
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| • | "Britain's Princess Margaret has taken up smoking again. The princess, who was forced to abandon her 60-a-day habit after a stroke, is reported by royal snoopers to be back on the fags. 'She tries to hide it from staff so they won't tell her mother or her sister,' said one not-so-loyal aide", Sunday Times (South Africa), Oct. 18, '98
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| • | "she shocked people by smoking in public [1950 - aged 20]...she had been smoking too much [c. 1976]...in 1985 she had part of a lung removed, but she ignored advice to give up cigarettes", plus footage dragging through a long holder c. 60's, ditto at an outdoor event c. '76, ditto at a function c. '90, "Princess Margaret - the Rebel Princess", '98 |
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| • | "Once a 60-a-day woman...first seen smoking at age 19", The Scotsman, Feb. 8, '99 |
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| • | "Princess Margaret smokes", The Express (UK), Feb. 8, '99 |
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| • | "Margaret has been a big smoker. The princess once smoked 60 cigarettes a day using a long holder", Sunday Express, Apr. 25, '99 |
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| • | "She makes up [for eating scarcely anything] by drinking and smoking resolutely throughout the meal. She uses a long holder into which she inserts a filter; by the end of the meal, the ashtray is overflowing", 1983 diary entry of a royal observer, Sunday Express (UK), May 2, '99 |
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| • | "is the only smoker among senior members of the royal family. Despite cutting down from 60 a day after she suffered a life-threatening stroke a year ago, she is believed to be ignoring advice to stop smoking altogether", The Sunday Times (UK), Jul. 2, '99
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| • | "as an 18-year-old... she was seen smoking in public" with a later reference to a self-gratifying syndrome "which saw her smoke 60 cigarettes a day and drink whisky against medical advice", Daily Mail (supplement) (UK), Oct. 16, '99 |
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| • | quit - "has given up smoking", The Mirror (UK), Nov. 26, '99 |
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| • | quit - "She gave up cigarettes - she used to smoke 60 a day - a few years ago", The Express (UK), Nov. 26, '99 |
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| • | "smoked 60 cigarettes a day until a non-malignant section of her lung was removed in January 1985", The Guardian (UK), Nov. 27, '99
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| • | "Health problems prompted Princess Margaret to quit her 60-a-day habit some time ago.", The Express (UK), Jan. 6, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Plucky Princess Margaret has finally kicked her addiction to cigarettes and her fondness for a tipple. The brave royal has not touched a drop of booze or a single fag in more than six months after health scares" w/pic, News of the World (UK), Mar. 26, '00 |
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| • | "She was said to have been smoking 40 cigarettes a day [in 1993, aged 62]", The Express (UK), Aug. 21, '00 |
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| • | "I remember Princess Margaret was always in need of a cigarette. I can even recall her saying: 'Where are my bloody fags!'", Sellers on Sellers, serialised in the Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 9, '00 |
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| • | "With a cigarette in one hand and a whisky in the other, she was the original It Girl", The Sun (The TV Mag), Nov. 18, '00 |
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| • | "daringly she smoked in public", with footage of her dragging through a holder plus two stills, Royal Portraits: Princess Margaret: The Tragic Princess (TV profile), '00 |
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| • | quit - "For most of her adult lfe Princess Margaret was a heavy smoker who at one time enjoyed up to 60 cigarettes a day until cutting down and finally giving up a few years ago", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 2, '01 |
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| • | "she soon acquired a smoking habit of up to 60 cigarettes a day", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 2, '01 |
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| • | quit - "hooked on cigarettes", "she has long been known for her enthusiastic consumption of both cigarettes and whisky", "like so many dedicated smokers, she gave up on many occasions, but could not sustain it", "[in 1993] she was warned that she must give up smoking, and this time she did take the doctors' advice", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 4, '01 |
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| • | quit - "has given up cigarettes", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 4, '01 |
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| • | quit - "formerly a heavy smoker, had part of a lung removed in 1985. Tests found the tissue sample to be benign. But she was said to have been smoking as many as 30 cigarettes a day within months of surgery. She has since stopped", The Age, (Australia), Jan. 5, '01
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| • | "she drank too much, she smoked too heavily", Sunday Express (UK), Jan. 7, '01 |
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| • | "a smouldering Chesterfield perched on the end of her rhinestone cigarette holder", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 11, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Once a heavy smoker, she is said to have given up the habit after part of her lung was removed following a cancer scare in 1985", The Age (Australia), Jan. 11, '01
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| • | "From her teenage years, Princess Margaret was the party girl with a long tortoiseshell cigarette holder...addiction to strong Chesterfield cigarettes...her lifestyle took its toll and Margaret's health suffered...In 1985, she suffered a cancer scare but was given the all-clear... And she carried on smoking. Party-goers had become used to seeing Margaret with her trademark cigarette holder when she was only 17 or 18. In 1952, at the age of 22, she increased her smoking habit after the trauma of her father George VI's death. Her dependence on cigarettes was further heightened when she stopped drinking alcohol...in 1984. The Princess smoked up to 60 a day, frequently chain-smoking during each course of a meal... Royal insiders insisted that by 1998, when she suffered a stroke, the Princess had eventually stopped smoking. But late into her life, she retained ash trays around her Kensington Palace apartment and servants spoke of sometimes smelling cigarette smoke. Her close aide...said the Princess gave up smoking in January 1993 and 'never smoked again'", GMTV (UK) website, Jan. 11, '01
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| • | "She was a heavy smoker and drinker at one time", The Guardian (UK), Jan. 11, '01
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| • | "smoked too much", w/holder pic from '74, Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 12, '01 |
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| • | quit - "was a 60-a-day smoker until told by her doctors to give them up in 1993 which she did...While she was first seen puffing away at 18, it was only after she and Townsend ended their relationship and she pointedly went out on the town with members of the so-called 'Margaret set', that she began defiantly lighting up regularly, flourishing her trademark tortoiseshell cigarette-holder like a fashion accessory", w/holder pic "Margaret enjoys a cigarette at the Badminton horse trials in 1953", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 13, '01 |
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| • | "a lifelong smoker", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jan. 9, '01
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| • | "during all these years of glamour and petty scandals at court, Margaret smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day", French website, Jan. 9, '01
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| • | quit - "She carried on smoking 30 cigarettes a day for several months after surgery [in 1985], eventually kicking the habit", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 11, '01 |
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| • | quit - "she has finally managed to give up smoking - at one time she was getting through 60 cigarettes a day", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 11, '01 |
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| • | quit - "In 1985, she was admitted to hospital complaining of chest pains and a piece of her left lung was removed by surgeons, but she was given the all-clear...the operation did not stop her smoking...She was said to be getting through 30 a day within a few months of surgery. In early January 1993, Princess Margaret, then 62, ...was said to be smoking 40 cigarettes a day and was told by doctors that she had to quit...It appeared that she took the advice and managed to give up smoking", The Guardian (UK), Jan. 11, '01
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| • | "whiskey in one hand and a gaudy cigarette holder dangling from the other... she smoked as many as 60 cigarettes a day", Toronto Sun, Jan. 12, '01 |
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| • | "smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day until she was 55", Yahoo! News (UK & Ireland), Jan. 13, '01
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| • | quit - "Surprisingly, for a woman whose father, a cigarette smoker, died of lung cancer at the age of 56, Margaret was a 60-a-day smoker until told by her doctors to give them up in 1993, which she did. Her smoking has much to do with her disappointment in life. While she was first seen puffing away at 18, it was only after she and Townsend ended their relationship and she pointedly went out on the town with members of the so-called 'Margaret Set', that she began defiantly lighting up regularly, flourishing her trademark tortoiseshell cigarette-holder like a fashion accessory", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 13, '01 |
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| • | quit - "In those days the Princess still drank and smoked resolutely. She used a long cigarette-holder and by the end of her meal her ashtray would be overflowing. Only in the course of the last few years has she given up smoking", "has always been renowned for her heavy smoking. Despite a [lung] cancer scare she only gave up a few years ago", Sunday Express (UK), Jan. 14, '01 |
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| • | "In those days the Princess still drank and smoked resolutely. She used a long cigarette-holder and by the end of a meal her ashtray would be overflowing. Only in the course of the last few years has she given up smoking", "Margaret has always been renowned for her heavy smoking. Despite a cancer scare she only gave up a few years ago", Sunday Express (UK), Jan. 14, '01 |
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| • | quit -"Princess Margaret, who...defied public opinion to smoke openly, gave up following a lung operation", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth, also puffs away happily", Reformatorisch Dagblad (Netherlands), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | quit - "she has given up cigarettes...many years of heavy smoking...In 1985 part of her lung was removed. But she carried on smoking 30 cigarettes a day for several months after surgery, eventually kicking the habit", Daily Express (UK), Mar. 30, '01 |
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| • | "Once a fun-loving, chain-smoking, hard-drinking socialite", Birmingham Sunday Mercury (UK), Apr. 1, '01
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| • | "once smoked 60-a-day", Daily Express (UK), Jul. 24, '01 |
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| • | "After smoking up to 60 a day for most of her adult life, she has suffered a series of strokes", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 25, '01 |
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| • | "[cameras and paparazzi] liked to be shocked by her as she was caught smoking in public", "her vices of drinking and smoking...forbidden by doctors [in later life]", plus two pieces of footage showing her lighting up and drawing on her cigarette, in both cases through a long holder, "Margaret: Royal Rebel" (Channel 4 TV) (UK), Nov. 22, '01 |
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| • | "She's superstitious, so when I found her a four-leaved clover I thought I'd found my way to her heart - she seemed quite pleased when I gave it to her. But sometime after I had left her I had to go back to where we had been talking - and there was my clover in an ashtray. She'd stubbed a cigarette out on it", "Kanga: Conversations With A Royal Mistress by Chris Hutchins", '01 |
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| • | "One of the fondest memories I shall have of her was of her sitting at the piano and playing away with a large, very elegant, cigarette-holder in her mouth", statement by Prince Charles on her death, Feb. 9, '02 |
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| • | "Margaret's cigarette habit hard to kick", "She'd been seen as the party girl with the long tortoiseshell cigarette holder since her teens. At one point she was said to be puffing her way through up to 60 a day, frequently chain-smoking during each course of a meal.", website, Feb. 9, '02 |
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| • | "Despite her reputation as a heavy smoker, she opened the lung treatment centre at Manchesters Wythenshawe Hospital in 1993", Manchester online (UK), Feb. 9, '02
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| • | "She smoked up to 60 strong Chesterfield cigarettes a day, but not simply for the effect of nicotine. Her film-star holder harked back to an era when smoking was a glamourous hobby and she simply enjoyed the performance of fitting the cigarette in the holder and lighting up. Her Royal status meant she could smoke when and where she pleased. So she did and carried her own fine china ashtray on official visits", Mail on Sunday (UK), Feb. 10, '02 |
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| • | "When she was just 19 years old the young princess was first seen smoking in public - through her trademark ivory cigarette holder. In an age when upper-class women were supposed only to smoke in private the incident caused outrage - and started a trend among other young women...she would smoke ferociously throughout the meal and thought nothing of stubbing out her Chesterfield cigarettes in another guest's creme brulee", Mail on Sunday (UK), Feb. 10, '02 |
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| • | "She was the ultimate IT girl. With a cigarette in one hand, a glass of Famous Grouse whisky in the other and handsome young men at her feet, Princess Margaret seemed to have it all...She smoked far too much (beginning as a precocious 13-year-old)", The Mirror (The Party Princess supplement) (UK), Feb. 10, '02 |
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| • | "With a smouldering Chesterfield perched at the end of her stylish cigarette holder and a brimming tumber of whisky, the Queen's younger sister knew how to enjoy herself", Sunday Express (UK), Feb. 10, '02 |
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| • | quit - "Though she gave up smoking more than five years ago, her image needed that long, elegant cigarette holder, and her sharp, acutely rounded observations on life married well with the accompanying smoke-rings", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 10, '02
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| • | "was pressured only to smoke and drink in private", The Observer (UK), Feb. 10, '02
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| • | "She was rarely seen without her signature long ivory cigarette holder (untipped for preference)... started overworking the ivory cigarette holder...As she grew older, drink and cigarettes took their toll and she was forced to give up both", Glasgow Sunday Herald (Scotland), Feb. 10, '02
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| • | "the Queen's sister allegedly smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day", Glasgow Sunday Herald (Scotland), Feb. 10, '02
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| • | [to a servant] "where are my f**king cigarettes?", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 11, '02 |
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| • | "Cancer killed her father yet still she smoked 60 a day. Princess Margaret spent almost her entire adult life taking the biggest risk of all with her health. When she started smoking at 17, lighting up cigarettes in a tortoiseshell holder that was to become her trademark, no one fully understood their deadly legacy. ...the death of her heavysmoking father 50 years ago did not deter her from smoking up to 60 strong Chesterfield cigarettes a day for decades. The addiction, which appeared to be as much to the glamour radiated by the habit in the Fifties and Sixties as to the nicotine, eventually led to the chronic ill-health that fatally undermined her zest for life in recent years....she was rarely seen without a drink or a cigarette in the heady days of her youth...The first major scare linked to her smoking came in 1985 when she complained of chest pains. There were fears she had lung cancer, the illness diagnosed in her father a year before his death. However, after the removal of a piece of tissue which turned out to be non-malignant, the Princess carried on smoking for at least another eight years, despite repeated warnings from royal physicians and another bout of pneumonia in 1993. ...Years of fast living and heavy smoking had doubled the likelihood of having a stroke", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "She drank more than they did, she smoked more than they did...She brandished her long cigarette holder like a personal standard and developed a thirst for whisky - Famous Grouse - that was to last, along with smoking, until her doctors said 'No More' ", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "When she smoked, the royal handbag would be opened, the packet extracted. Then, infinitely slowly, the royal cigarette would be screwed into the royal cigarette holder. She'd raise it to her lips. Then - and only then - was the signal for it to be lit", Daily Express (UK), Feb. 11, '02 |
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| • | "the enduring image of Princess Margaret during those years was of a haughty beauty with a long cigarette holder pictured at some smart first night or restaurant...Margaret's undoubted fondness for a glass of Famous Grouse whisky and her 60-a-day cigarette habit", Daily Mail (UK), Feb.11, '02
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| • | "Her pain, exposed to the public eye, was never forgotten; and not the least of the burdens she had thereafter to bear was the image of star-crossed Princess, cigarette-holder waved in brittle levity at a world which had denied her happiness", The Times (UK), Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "the story of Princess Margaret had been recast as a Victorian melodrama, full of cautionary moralising. The beauty squandered, the cigarettes and whisky consumed, the empty social whirl; these were signposts to nemesis...she smoked too much", The Tribune (India), Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "a predilection for handsome young escorts, Marlboro cigarettes, whisky and dancing till dawn", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 13, '02
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| • | "I encountered Princess Margaret only once, when she was lunching with two men at a restaurant table next to mine. A friend had told me that she didn't just smoke between courses; she puffed between mouthfuls, and so it proved. A thick cloud of smoke poured from her table towards ours, like mustard gas over the trenches", The Guardian (UK), Feb. 16, '02
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| • | "came in for criticism from the public because she was seen smoking and drinking while still in her late teens. The paparazzi of that time got a shot of the Princess wearing a strapless evening dress, sitting with the King and Queen in the Royal box at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, smoking through an elegant, long cigarette holder. The Prince of Wales speaking on Sky TV last Saturday, said he recalled the princess one Christmas, playing the piano with a long, tortoise-shell cigarette holder in her mouth....smoked in the Royal box at the opera and ballet in the presence of the queen and older relatives. On State occasions such as the visit of a Head of State to Britain, she would take her place with the rest of the family, dressed for the event and would indulge in her smoking and, of course, drinking the wines and champagne served at such State dinners", Daily News (Sri Lanka), Feb. 16, '02
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| • | "The artfully dyed hair, drawling voice, brightly lipsticked mouth, stylish clothes, long cigarette-holder and frequently replenished whisky glass all reinforced her image as a somewhat raffish divorcee", The Spectator (UK), Feb. 16, '02 |
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| • | "Friends of Princess Margaret have spoken for the first time about the sadness of her later years. It was tragedy in her personal life, not hedonism, that led the Princess to use cigarettes and alcohol as a 'crutch', one has told The Observer in a remarkably frank assessment...the princess grew up in an age where drinking and smoking was much more acceptable...'The ashtray had to be changed every three minutes. I find it hard to believe that she could have tasted the pudding'...'During the last five years the princess had almost given up smoking'", The Observer (UK), Feb. 17, '02
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| • | "a hedonist who smoked cigarettes", Niagara Falls Reporter, Feb. 19, '02
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| • | "was smoking a cigarette, left-handed, through a long black holder...at the end of the meal cigars and cigarettes were offered, but only Princess Margaret smoked [at a private luncheon in 1990]", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 4, '02 |
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| • | "would settle into her car trailing a cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), May 25, '02 |
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| • | "her somewhat rude trick of using a human ashtray...had been smoking her cigarette in its elegant holder and now looked round for an ashtray...an equerry hurried forward, grovelled low and held out his cupped hand...HRH flicked her ash into it", Daily Express (UK), Aug. 7, '02 |
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| • | "a lifetime of drinking and smoking", Sunday Express (S:2 magazine) (UK), Dec. 29, '02 |
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| • | "she would smoke in bed. She started smoking from the moment she opened her eyes virtually...excessive smoking...the royal toast would be given after the first course because Margaret insisted on smoking during most of her meals. And, of course, she obeyed the tradition that you don't smoke before the royal toast, but she made damned sure it happened early in the meal...eventually gave up her life-long habit of smoking", Margaret: the Secret Princess, Carlton Television (UK), Feb. 10, '03 |
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| • | "a renowned drinker and smoker", Daily Mirror (UK), Mar. 7, '03
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| • | "noticed the ask from the cigarette in her ivory holder had grown longer. She beckoned a nearby young man and, in drawling tones, told him to hold out his hand. When he did, she tapped the ash into it, then turned away and continued her conversation...her health had not been helped by a lifetime of chain smoking more than 40 a day...She had formed her own Court, in which the courtiers were jesters who laughed at her jokes, lit her cigarettes, and kept her whisky glass well filled" w/pic, holding, Daily Express (UK), Jan. 31, '04 |
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| • | "a whisky drinker and chain smoker", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 28, '04 |
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| • | "a chain smoker", The Australian, Jul. 15, '04
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| • | "Racy Princess Margaret, our present queen's younger sister, smoked to excess", The Sun (UK), Jan. 14, '05
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| • | "[she and her future husband] danced and chain-smoked their way through a very alternative season of wild parties", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 26, '05 |
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| • | "A lifelong smoker", Softpedia news, Aug. 19, '05
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| • | "They photographed each other, danced together at wild parties and chain-smoked", The Independent (UK), Aug. 27, '05
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| • | "While latterly she became something of a pitiful creature, a chain-smoking, heavy-drinking caricature of faded grandeur, in her heyday, the spirited, imperial princess was widely considered by many to be one of the most beautiful women in the world", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 5, '05 |
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| • | "I remember a night when (Britain's) Princess Margaret was here and Larry Hagman, who was J.R., was seated next to her at dinner... Larry was spokesman for the American Cancer Society at the time, and when Princess Margaret pulled out a cigarette, he pulled out an electric fan and started blowing the smoke away", Houston Chronicle, May 27, '06
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| • | "The princess's love of smoking was reflected in the sale as at least 10 cigarette cases and countless ashtrays were among the lots. A gold Cartier cigarette case given to the princess as a Christmas present by her father George VI in 1949 sold for £102,000, more than 20 times its guide price of £3,000 to £5,000", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jun. 15, '06
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| • | "a more personal gift of a smoker's set, from Dame Margot Fonteyn, of whom the ballet-obsessed Princess was an admirer and friend, fetched only a modest £3,360. A filigree cigarette holder and matching case, a gift from President Tito of the former Yugoslavia to an inveterate royal smoker, did rather better at £5,500. And a Cartier cigarette case, estimated at £3,000-£5,000, went for £102,000", The Peninsula (Qatar), Jun. 17, '06
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| • | "The late princess' cigarette case - a gift from her father, King George VI - fetched more than $210,000, 20 times its original estimate", Ottowa Citizen (Canada), Jun. 17, '06
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| • | "the cigarette case inscribed 'from her very devoted Papa', given to her by her father at Christmas, 1949", Daily Express (UK), Jun. 17, '06 |
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| • | "a life spent chain-smoking", New York Observer, Jun. '06
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| • | "The only bad thing was that she smoked too much", The Times (UK), Sep. 15, '06
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| • | "cigarette holder in one hand, a gin and tonic in the other", The Independent (UK), Nov. 10, '06
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| • | "lit up the party circuit as a teenager with her glamorous tortoiseshell cigarette holder and was allegedly smoking 30 a day within months of a 1985 biopsy all-clear verdict", The Times (UK), Nov. 25, '06
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| • | "This Cartier gem-set cigarette case was given to the chain smoking princess by her father, King George VI", w/pic of her cigarette case, Daily Mail, '06
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| • | "With her cigarette in a holder, the Princess regularly graced the pages of women's magazines", "Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture in Britain (Leisure, Consumption and Culture)" by Penny Tinkler, c. '06 |
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| • | "came in a lot, always smoking. One member of staff took her fag ends home to show his mum the royal stubs", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 1, '07
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| • | "She was standing there, with her cigarette holder, smoking and talking, her dark voice, this beautiful unhappy person", Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Feb. 4, '07
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| • | quit - "By 1991, her health was starting to fail and she knew that her lifestyle had to change. First, she decided to stop smoking: 2,000 cigarettes were duly returned to their providers and she never lit up again... an ageing figure on the periphery of royal life who had smoked and drunk too much and made the wrong choices in love... the ever-present cigarette in a holder, a large Scotch at her elbow", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 30, '07
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| • | "Usual scene. HRH in plummy red with a gold belt, smoking and drinking whisky, in good form surrounded by a motley crowd... she had suffered for years from a blood circulation disorder, probably brought on by heavy smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 4, '07
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| • | "was 43 at the time, a hard drinker, a heavy smoker and about to be a divorcee", Sunday Times (UK), Jul. 15, '07
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| • | "I felt it best to melt away into the night - still glowing with the cigarette ash which the Princess had so gratefully deposited into my palm when I had been a little too slow to produce an ashtray", Sunday Express (UK), Jul. 15, '07 |
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| • | "with her signature long cigarette holder and pocket Venus figure", The Guardian (UK), Jul. 21, '07
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| • | "In an age when new legislation has made it illegal for anyone under eighteen to purchase tobacco the sight of a fifteen-year-old girl precociously drawing on a cigarette in the Highlands is surprising, even shocking. In the 1940s it was quite usual. Princess Margaret smoked from a very early age and was certainly not discouraged by her devoted and adored papa. In the long run it became a hallmark habit and one that was, inevitably, detrimental to her health... For years she had smoked far too heavily for her health but during 1991 she cut the habit completely. Two thousand cigarettes were returned to their providers and she never lit up again", "Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled" by Tim Heald, '07 |
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| • | "chain-smoked wherever she went", Sunday Express (UK), Jan. 13, '08
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| • | "She was smoking up a storm and was very lively", Mail on Sunday (UK), Mar. 23, '08
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| • | "had never had lunch alone in her life and expected she would see Tony often during the day. Instead, she found herself alone, filling in time by washing the coral she had collected on holiday in the Caribbean or sticking the sides of matchboxes on tumblers, so she would have something to strike a match on if she wanted to smoke while drinking whisky... sucking on a long cigarette holder", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 2, '08
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| • | "smoked constantly", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 3, '08
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| • | "sticking the sides of matchboxes onto tumblers (so that she could light cigarettes more easily while drinking whisky)", Sunday Times (UK), Jun. 8, '08
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| • | "[A crew member of the Royal Yacht Britannia] recalls supplying the princess with his own Woodbines when her supply of cigarettes ran out. She puffed away happily on them, with just one refinement - they were stuck in the end of her long cigarette holder", The Gazette (UK), Jun. 13, '08
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| • | "[Lady Glenconner:] 'One of my duties was to clean her cigarette holder'", The Observer (UK), Aug. 3, '08
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| • | "must have been uncomfortable, as there was no smoking allowed and I saw her going outside for a cigarette", Swindon Advertiser (UK), Sep. 24, '08
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| • | "In her hand was a holder containing an unlit cigarette and, as she drew level with me, she stopped and said: 'Would you give me a light?' before turning away to talk to an aide. I searched in my dinner jacket pockets and found an old book of matches. Princess Margaret turned back to me, the cigarette holder now firmly in her mouth and her head cocked forward in anticipation of a light. But as I struck the match, her head jerked backwards. 'Oh no! Sulphur! I can't stand sulphur. Haven't you got a lighter?'... 'In there,' she said, 'are my cigarettes and a lighter. When I require a cigarette, I shall ask you to give me one and then light it for me with my lighter.' And with that she spun on her heel and walked away. I, of course, felt more than obliged - commanded, in fact - to follow her, clutching the bag. She didn't humiliate me for long, however. After a few minutes she turned to me and asked for a cigarette, and I lit it with her lighter", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 13, '10
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| • | "smoked 'Chesterfield' cigarettes", Bideford Community Newsletter, when? |
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| • | "it's unfortunate smoking and drinking weren't Olympic sports, as she would truly have covered us in glory", where?, when?
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| • | "She is the only British royal to smoke openly", Divas-The Site, when?
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| • | "At one Chelsea dinner party, the 19-year-old Margaret opened her sequinned purse and produced a large ivory cigarette-holder into which she placed an untipped cigarette, then waited for a light. From then on Margaret was rarely seen without her silver case of unfiltered cigarettes. 'I shall never give up!' she declared to a friend", Royal Report website, when?
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| • | "She caused a sensation when, using a 3 [in.] cigarette holder, she first smoked in public at a charity ball at the Dorchester Hotel", "Margaret, A Life of Contrasts" by Christopher Warwick, when? |
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| • | "After the divorce, Margaret drank and smoked too much...Latterly, Princess Margaret has been a model of healthy living - no smoking, little drinking", Britannia Internet Magazine biography, when?
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| • | "a heavy smoker despite her doctor's warnings", Royal Genealogies website, when?
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| • | "heavy smoker", House of Windsor website, when?
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