Princess Margaret was given a lower level of education than the Queen to ensure she would not become a threat to her sister, a new documentary claims.
Lady Anne Glenconner, a maid-of-honour at the Queen's coronation, says Princess Margaret felt she was deliberately kept at an intellectual disadvantage growing up.
'She [Princess Margaret] always said, "I was never educated as well as my sister in order not to be a sort of threat to her", that's what she felt,' Lady Anne reveals in the BBC's Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal.
Princess Margaret's former lady-in-waiting Lady Anne Glenconner said the royal, pictured at a 1951 film premiere, felt she was deliberately kept at an intellectual disadvantage growing up as she shared her memories in BBC documentary Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal
Lady Anne was a childhood friend of Princess Margaret and went onto become a lady-in-waiting. Pictured, Lady Anne in 1956 ahead of her wedding to one of Margaret's friends
Lady Anne recalled how the then Princess Elizabeth (left in 1940) had tutors from Eton and Oxford while her younger sister Margaret (right) received lessons in French and piano playing
Lady Anne was a childhood friend of Princess Margaret and went onto become one of her ladies-in-waiting.
She spent much time with the young princesses as a child as her father, the 5th Earl of Leicester, was a close friend of the future King George VI and their family home, Holkham Hall, was just a stone's throw from the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
Lady Anne recalls how the different approaches to the princesses' education was apparent.
'The Queen had people from Oxford and Eton who came and taught her and Princess Margaret had a French governess and someone who taught her how to play piano,' she says.
Lady Anne was a close friend of the royal family and served as one of the Queen's maids of honour at the coronation in 1953. Lady Anne is pictured far left in this balcony photograph
As future Queen Princess Elizabeth was also given lessons in constitutional history, while her younger sister was not.
Fellow lady-in-waiting Jane Stevens says that the difference in education was the first indication to Princess Margaret that their lives were on different paths.
She recalls: 'She said to me, "that was the first time I sort of thought or realised that my sister was going to be Queen and I wouldn't really be part of what she was going to do. It hit her quite hard that their lives were going to be completely different.'
Another close friend, Lady Jane Rayne, adds how this lack of education would impact Princess Margaret for years to come.
The two-part documentary also explores the princess's relationship with Group Captain Peter Townsend, to whom she was engaged, and her first husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Pictured, the princess with Mr Armstrong-Jones on announcing their engagement in 1960
'I think she was afraid of being belittled, but what role can you have next to the Queen? I don't know,' she says.
'She was intelligent but it was never put to any sort of good use. I think that's all that was expected of her. Do good work, marry somebody and have lots of little princesses.'
The two-part documentary, which starts next week, also explores the princess's relationship with Group Captain Peter Townsend, to whom she was engaged, and her first husband Antony Armstrong-Jones.
Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal airs on BBC Two at 9pm, 11 September.
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