HRH’S OH-SO REVEALING COSSIE

IN THE daytime, Princess Margaret would wear one of her many whale-boned swimming costumes with a short skirt.

I began to notice that whispers circulated whenever she got out of the water.

I soon realised it was because her swimming costumes were transparent when wet. Approaching the subject delicately, I said: ‘Ma’am, I wonder whether you are aware that your swimming costume is rather see-through. Perhaps I could get it lined for you.’

‘Oh, Anne,’ she said, somewhat exasperated. ‘I don’t care. If they want to look, they can look.’

And that was that.