“I found out that his father, Jack, Earl Spencer, had told him not to marry me because I had Trefusis blood,” she writes. Lady Anne Glenconner, former lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, wrote in her autobiography of the stigma it conferred, and revealed it had affected her personally – it scuppered a potential marriage match between herself and one Johnnie Althorp (later, 8 th Earl Spencer, father to Princess Diana). While deeply troubling and resonant of eugenic theories, the idea that ‘bad blood’ could threaten the integrity of bloodlines, and therefore conventions of inherited power and wealth, was more typical at the time when the sisters were placed in hospital. The Queen Mother Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret, 1967. “I only lasted one session,” Margaret told a friend. Princess Margaret had, according to Craig Brown, seen one Dr Peter Dally, a consultant psychiatrist attached to Westminster Hospital in 1966, at the persuasion of Lord Snowdon.
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