Why Princess Margaret was known as the world’s most difficult guest

A typical night out for Princess Margaret meant turning up to a dinner party, at least two hours late.

The other guests had strict instructions that they weren’t to start eating until the guest of honour had arrived. That in itself created all kinds of angst.

According to Craig Brown, author of Ma’am Darling: 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret, when the Princess finally arrive, the other guests were all starving and couldn’t wait to tuck into their meal.

But the Princess was not known to eat large quantities. She barely nibbled at her food before stopping, meaning that the other diners had to put down their cutlery too.

“And if she didn’t want any pudding, then nobody else would have it! Suddenly people who’d been really hungry for two hours would be forced to stop eating,” Brown told the ABC.

But guests could forget about ducking out of the party early and grabbing a feed on the way home; nobody was allowed to leave before the princess.

“A lot of these people had jobs to go to the next day and the Princess also loved staying up late, because she would always get up at 11am,” Brown said.

Brown’s award-winning book is incredibly entertaining; filled with hilarious anecdotes about…