Overview

• Princess Margaret and the Curse is scheduled for release on September 9, 2025, by Skyhorse Publishing
• Biographer Meryle Secrest theorizes that the Queen Mother’s drinking during her 1930 pregnancy may have exposed Margaret to harmful levels of alcohol
• The biography draws on private letters, accounts from a former equerry and Dr. Kenneth Jones’s fetal alcohol syndrome research to link Margaret’s mood swings and stunted growth to prenatal exposure
• Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims and no clinical diagnosis or telltale facial features have been presented to substantiate an FAS diagnosis
• A former friend of the princess and experts caution that the absence of direct medical evidence renders the fetal alcohol syndrome theory largely speculative