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HRH Princess Margaret

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

From Brahms to Carl Ravazza.

The Queen's younger sister, Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, shares her castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

Explaining how difficult it was choosing her discs – the princess recalls her early years and life during the Second World War – including VE night.

Looking back to her first solo public engagement aged 12, Margaret explains how busy she is kept with royal engagements and the organisations she supports.

She also talks about the way her life is reported in newspapers.

HRH Princess Margaret died aged 71 in 2002.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. Show less

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