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The letters, alleged to be from the Queen’s sister to Robin Douglas-Home, the nephew of the Tory Prime Minister Sir Alec, shed some light on the Countess of Snowdon’s troubled romantic life and the strength of feelings between the two.
According to Craig Brown, an unauthorised biographer of the Princess, Mr Douglas-Home “properly loved” Margaret, and “she properly loved him”.
The author recounted the “love letters from her to him” which suggest “she had a completely sensitive side to her”.
One of the letters reads: “Darling, I have never had a letter like it.
“I don’t suppose one like it has ever been written.
“The beauty in it and the poetry lifted my heart again.”
In another one, she added: “I think all the time of you.”
Princess Margaret and Mr Douglas-Home are thought to have began a secret relationship just before Christmas in 1966, after they met at London’s Society restaurant.
Princess Margaret was 37 at the time and she was going through her seventh year of marriage to Lord Snowdon.
Anne De Courcy, biographer of Anthony Armstrong-jones, claimed the couple “broke apart after six months” because of Margaret’s husband.
She said: “Tony found out and furiously told her that man is not coming to Kensington Palace again and she wrote him a letter saying I must not see you again.”
In one of the last correspondence between the two, the Princess wrote to her love: “Thank you for everything nice, which everything was.
“With best love.”
The Countess of Snowdon remained with her husband for the sake of their children for more than ten years, before eventually getting divorce in 1978.
But the couple started leading completely separate lives when Anthony Armstrong-Jones began to withdraw from Royal duties.
In the 70s, the rebel Royal retreated to the Caribbean island of Mustique for a private life.
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