Apparently, a conflict with the American actress and singer Judy Garland caused Princess Margaret to become non grata in the United States.
In the 1960s, Princess Margaret toured the United States; She made the trip accompanied by her husband, photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, and although in the fourth season of The Crown it is portrayed as a successful tour, the reality is that the sister of Queen Elizabeth II earned the unofficial title of persona non grata in the country.
The princess's arrogant and rebellious character were the reasons for earning this title. It all happened during a party in Hollywood, which Margarita attended as a guest of Sharman Douglas, her friend, the socialite and daughter of the former United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Lewis William Douglas.
Among the guests were great personalities such as Elizabeth Tayor, Richard Burton, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, among others. According to Vanity Fair Spain magazine, the dinner started badly from the moment Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Richard Burton, were not sitting next to the royals, but in a door next to the kitchen.
When they realized this, the actors accustomed to taking all the spotlight left the place without first having even greeted her Royal Highnesses.
Shortly after, Princess Margaret wanted to hear Judy Garland sing, so she demanded it from across the room. The artist felt very offended, not only because of the authoritarian tone of the queen's sister, but also because she doubted her talent.
“Go tell that nasty, rude little princess that we've known each other for quite some time and that we've talked in enough women's bathrooms so that she can't skip boring protocol and stop by to ask me personally. Tell her I'll sing if she christens a ship first,” Judy responded, according to the book Princess Margaret: A Biography by royal biographer Théo Aronson.
But the bad experience did not stop there, since Margaret also had a disagreement with the actress and princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly, when the princess told her “Frankly, you don't look like a movie star” and Albert II's mother responded “Well.” "I wasn't born a movie star."
In Aronson's biography, Princess Margaret is described as someone who enjoyed attacking artists and celebrities. Her ‘victims’ include supermodel Twiggy, Elizabeth Taylor and Neile Adams, wife of Steve McQueen.
