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The documentary is the second film in an intimate portrait of the Queen’s younger sister Princess Margaret and her husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s.
It was during this time they set off on an official royal tour of the US where they met celebrities and artists, amid the era of the cultural and sexual revolution.
Managing Editor of the Sunday Times in the 1960s, Clive Irving, said the royal household thought of the couple were modern without being too racy, but he added that they were “very racy”.
Lady Anne Glenconner, a childhood friend of the Princess, said: “There was suddenly an explosion and anything went – people had parties with every type of person.
“Drugs fuelled a lot of it, not that I’m saying Princess Margaret took drugs, or I never did.”
Lady Anne was then pressed by the interviewer, “did she?”
To which she replied, with a serious expression: “I don’t know. I honestly wouldn’t know.
“I rather doubt it because we all liked to drink.”
It was also during this extravagant trip when the British press began to question the large expenses from the public purse to fund it.
The mystique of the monarchy began to be increasingly undermined and it was in the years that followed that Anthony Armstrong-Jones began to withdraw from royal duties and the couple began to lead increasingly separate lives.
Press speculation of her marriage intensified and in the 1970s, the rebelrRoyal retreated to the Caribbean island of Mustique for a private life.
But her relationship with a younger man and beach parties with rock stars, such as Mick Jagger, led to more intense scrutiny of the Royal Family.
In 1978 Margaret got a divorce, which reflected the changing attitudes sweeping the country.
She was then increasingly eclipsed by a new generation of princesses.
But in many respects, the rebel royal was a trailblazer for the modern 21st-century monarchy.
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