To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. “If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies” he confided to a friend, “they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!” Peter Sellers was in love with her.įor Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave.
She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.Īndy Warhol photographed her. She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. ‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’ Observer The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown. 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'Exquisitely naughty and hilarious' Guardian 'Craig Brown's humour will outlive his victims.
With the full battery of the humourist's armoury - clerihews, tongue-twisters, whimsy, parody, farce, satire, social observation, nonsense - Brown skewers the passing fads and delusions of the contemporary world. The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatles delivers essays on such diverse figures as Ronald Searle, John Stonehouse, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Dawkins, Katie Price, Stanley Spencer, Harry and Meghan, Brian Epstein, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Reagan, Simon Dee and the Marx Brothers. "My mate tried it, says it's total rubbish" wrote Brian from Sumeria. In another, he unearths the Historical Online Archive and discovers that the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia in 4000 BC drew fierce criticism on social media. In one chapter, Brown writes about the influence of Blackpool on Sigmund Freud and Les Dawson.
Featuring handy household tips from Mary Berry ('When eating a boiled egg be careful to remove the shell first, or it can be a little crunchy') and historic admissions from Queen Elizabeth 1st to Oprah Winfrey concerning her mother's beheading ('Thank you for having the courage to share that with us'), Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century.
What is James Bond's middle name? How does Jacob Rees-Mogg's nanny set about cleaning him up in the morning? When did Piers Morgan introduce his special guest Kim Jong-Un as "the straight-talking boy from North Korea who grew up to become a global superstar"? All these important questions, and a great many more, are answered in Craig Brown's Haywire. 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.
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