US EditionPrincess Margaret Had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome After the Queen Mother Drank During Pregnancy, New Biography Claims
GREATER LONDON, ENGLAND, JUL 30 – Pulitzer Prize-nominated biographer Meryle Secrest links Princess Margaret's personality traits and struggles to foetal alcohol syndrome, a condition caused by prenatal alcohol exposure.
- In her forthcoming biography, Meryle Secrest asserts that Princess Margaret suffered from an invisible disability caused by foetal alcohol syndrome, linked to the Queen Mother’s drinking during pregnancy.
- At the time of Margaret’s gestation, doctors lacked understanding of FAS, which develops from prenatal alcohol exposure, likely leaving the Queen Mother uninformed about avoiding alcohol during pregnancy.
- The biography highlights that Margaret displayed mood swings, stunted growth, learning difficulties, and dangerous indifference, with family and nurses describing her as 'naughty' and 'mischievous and provocative' after sinking a boat during a rowing lesson.
- Critics note the absence of direct evidence, and Buckingham Palace declined to comment when approached by GB News.
- The biography claims Princess Margaret suffered from an invisible disability linked to foetal alcohol syndrome, potentially altering perceptions of her struggles, with Skyhorse Publishing set to release it on Sept 9.
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Admired for her style, feared for her sharp tongue, and notorious for her love life, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's younger sister, was a flamboyant royal not to be forgotten. However, according to a new biography, her personality may have been the result of a condition caused by her mother's drinking during pregnancy.
A new biography makes shocking claims about Princess Margaret. Did Queen Mum's drinking as a pregnant woman harm her daughter?
Meryle Secrest, a biographer named for the Pulitzer Prize, published a biography of Princess Margaret in September. Our colleagues at The Telegraph were able to consult excerpts, telling us that Elizabeth II's sister would have been affected by fetal alcohol syndrome...
Princess Margaret 'had foetal alcohol syndrome from Queen Mother's drinking' claims new book
Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, showed some symptoms of foetal alcohol syndrome, according to Pulitzer Prize-nominated biographer Meryle Secrest in her new book.
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