Princess Margaret<\/a>, who once presented him with a pen encased in a miniature rubber fish.<\/p>\nReflecting on the peculiar fish-wrapped pen, Harry remembered thinking the present was “cold-blooded”.<\/p>\n
Despite the unusual Christmas offering, Harry would subsequently reflect that he suspects he and Margaret might have formed a closer bond, though he only came to this realisation as her health deteriorated.<\/p>\n
He said: “Now and then, as I grew older, it struck me that Aunt Margo and I should’ve been friends. We had so much in common. Two Spares. Her relationship with Granny wasn’t an exact dialogue of mine with Willy, but it was pretty close.<\/p>\n
“The simmering rivalry, the intense competition…it all looked familiar. Aunt Margo also wasn’t that dissimilar from Mummy. Both rebels, both labelled as sirens.<\/p>\n
“So, my first thought when I learnt in early 2002 that she’d been taken ill was to wish there’d been more time to get to know her.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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