“Of course, at a banquet for instance or a big social occasion, it meant you had to dance attendance on her all night long,” Russell said. Therefore, she would make one of her aides follow her around at all times and hold an ashtray in their hands for her to use. The Express noted that in the documentary Royal Servants, Peter Russell, who worked in the royal household from 19, claimed that the princess couldn’t be bothered with trying to find a place to flick her ashes. She started smoking when she was a teenager and would use her staffers as “human ashtrays.” Several members of the royal family were heavy smokers and Princess Margaret was no exception. Princess Margaret | Kypros/Getty Images Princess Margaret started smoking at a young age Here’s more on the queen’s younger sister’s partying habits and how it all caught up with her later in life. Margaret would smoke anywhere from 50 to 60 cigarettes in a single day, even after her father died of lung cancer. Another habit the queen didn’t pick up that her sibling did is smoking. The monarch was always much more reserved than her sibling and she never partied like Margaret. Queen Elizabeth II and her late sister, Princess Margaret, couldn’t have been more different.
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