And, the moment her back was turned, one can imagine them imitating her squeaky, high-pitched voice. We know all this because Beaton jotted the conversation down in his diaries, and Williams jotted it down too, and so did Tynan, and so too did Tynan’s former wife Elaine Dundy and so did the birthday boy himself, Vidal. “I hate squalor! Tennessee Williams makes me feel ill!” “Are you acquainted with the opera La Bohème, Ma’am? That’s my world.”Īs it happened, Williams’s suspicion was spot on: a few years before, the princess had confided to Cecil Beaton that she “loathed” plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire. “What world do you live in?” asked the princess. “I’m afraid we can’t talk to each other, Ma’am,” he said, “because we live in such different worlds”. Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesĬonversation between Williams and Princess Margaret got off to a sticky start. Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret at Ascot for the Gold Cup in June 1948.
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