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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAD SHE LIVED

Princess Margaret may well prove to have been one of the most overlooked and misunderstood of all the 20th Century's intellectual figures. Far from having been a superfluous second acorn on the family tree, her influence on government and policy was great and far-reaching. It could be said that most of the few good points in the United Kingdom's record are due solely to her careful study and cautious wisdom, graciously offering her splendid erudition on many occasions, and patiently putting it at the service of a succession of bored, ignorant, and apathetic flunkeys whose only claim to position of power was the dubious honour of public election.

The general assumption that Princess Margaret would go to the Caribbean merely for a diversion has proved ever more ludicrous. As can be confirmed with any military analyst, the island which formed so central a hub in her itinerary was no mere brainless beach of bimbos, or tinpot coconut floating anthill. It was in fact one of the most strategically important atolls in the whole of the Western hemisphere, and it was with good reason that she chose it as the chief meeting place for the secret council she had convened to discuss the future of the civilisation of which she was one of the primary pillars -- until a few short years ago.

Although details are of course difficult to come by, it is relatively certain that it was at one of the last of these meetings that a definite link between Al-Qaeda and the Iraqi regime was proved beyond reasonable doubt. Princess Margaret was a tender woman, but she did not shrink from harsh reality and would not have hesitated a moment to push for an invasion of the offending rogue state, had such a move been possible to resolve with the desperate need for confidentiality and discreetness at that difficult time.

She was not a woman to be troubled by peer pressure. Dismissive of the much-touted dangers of smoking, she held fast and went her own way, something which would not have endeared her to the snivelling slaves of health fashion by whom we are all surrounded.

It is with great sadness that we reflect on how successful the final assassination attempt (the so-called "accident" involving the bathtub) was to prove, and on how much we miss her knowledge, beauty and resolution in these tempest-tossed times.






While in Italy, Princess Margaret often had private meetings with mysterious masked figures. It is possible that some were royal agents investigating the Vatican's secret activities. Perhaps the use of the Chronovisor had allowed papal authorities insight into the near future, and the princess had knowledge of the coming disaster in New York. It is also possible that the attacks were planned by the Vatican itself.


Despite her keen intelligence, Margaret's sister Elizabeth took little notice of foreign policy issues and perhaps did not share her skills at international affairs and geopolitical analysis.