On arrival in Birr on 31 December 1960 in what was a private visit the Princess Margaret and her husband were greeted by upwards of 2,000 people and every room in the town was filled with pressmen and security.Ībove Princess Margaret, Lady Rosse and her son Anthony Armstrong Jones (ennobled as earl of Snowdon in October 1961).Įarlier on Sunday morning the Princess made a surprise visit to St Brendan’s Church for the 8.30 a.m. The report of the settlement published in the Midland Tribune in June 1962 I am sorry I never got down to Birr to talk to Frank Egan about the royal telephone call after he became the owner in the late 1960s.
He had been in the old IRA but joined the Civic Guard in 1922. I remember to hear that Birr Sergeant of the gardai, John Flaherty, had charge of security for the Princess. Would we sue today for a perceived slight or get the hotel included in a ‘fun tour’ of Birr? Dramatis personae for such a tour or a play by young Michael Donegan would include Commander Crocker of the Princess’s bodyguard (on all three visits to Birr in 1961, 19) and Fred Hoysted, the chauffeur to the sixth earl of Rosse (died 1979) who later wrote a memoir of his time at Birr Castle and of which a copy, according to the Mildand Tribune, was sent to the Queen by a well-wisher after her outstandingly successful visit to Ireland in 2011. That grand old hotel, once known as The Royal Arms can trace its origins back to 1747 and was completed in the same year as the monument to the Duke of Cumberland. The young queen’s advisor ‘Tommy’ Lascelles would not have made that mistake and given a pass to American journalists looking for the Man of Aran or Darby O’Gill in Dooly’s Hotel, Birr. What a battery of telephone exchanges were shown in that fine television series. What is surprising is that the queen’s telephone switchboard operators made such a blunder in putting her call to Princess Margaret through to Dooly’s Hotel in Birr and not to Birr Castle.
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The town of Birr witnessed an influx of pressmen never seen before in the midlands and perhaps not till that EC meeting in Tullamore ten or fifteen years ago.Īny of you who looked at The Crown series will be clued into the goings on of the royal family in the 1950s and how ‘correct’ the young queen was. The happy couple visited Birr six months later on New Year’s Eve 1960. It was a grand affair and the Countess of Rosse, always one for beauty and glamour, was the finest dressed of the three mothers-in-law present at the royal wedding. The son of Anne, Countess of Rosse (by her first husband), Anthony Armstrong Jones, married the Queen’s only sister in May 1960.
In spite of their age difference, their passion for each other and the joy their relationship brings their lives is evident and both are committed to one another. Margaret knows Peter from a very young age through his work for the Royal Family and, in spite of his marriage, they fall in love and carry on an affair until Peter divorces and they wish to get married. Her father provides the heart of their equation, who guides Margaret's free-spirited character, while she inspires her father with her talent, passion and fiery nature. They seem to share a mutual love for life and all its riches.
Margaret adores her father, and vice versa. She enjoys parties, dancing, living life and has a flair for entertainment. She has an undeniable spirit that informs everything she does, which is wholehearted in all accounts of her life. Margaret is vivacious, intelligent, talented and arguably the soul of the Royal Family. Based on the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, The Crown tells the story of a young woman in love, whose life is complicated and ultimately devastated by the early loss of her father, which splits her family as her sister chooses to honour the history of the Crown of England rather than love for the people in her life.
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