What member of the British royal family did James Brough write 'The Tragic Princess' about?

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Princess Margaret 'In his book 'Margaret - The Tragic Princess', James Brough recounted an extraordinary story that had been told to him by two Fleet Street reporters. One of the reporters had heard a rumour around the time of the break-up of Princess Margaret's marriage in the mid-1970s that she ha been treated for porphyria by a leading specialist*. Could Princess Margaret have had, or still have, porphyria? Brough attempted to explain her character and activities in the light of the rumoured diagnosis of porphyria. He noted that she always wore special makeup for protection against the sun, suggesting that, like certain porphyrics, she was hypersensitive to sunlight. It is known that she avoided taking sleeping pills even though she often had trouble sleeping, perhaps because she knew that the barbiturate-based tablets would provoke an acute attack. The princess had a spell in hospital in 1967 which was attributed, in part, to excessive weight loss through dieting. Maintenance of constant carbohydrate intake is recognised as an important aspect of controlling porphyric attacks and reduciing diets are known to be precipitating factors in porphyria. If this were the case, then she would have been advised to embark on a high-carbohydrate diet in order to prevent future attacks of porphyria, and this could explain the princess's subsequent weight gain. Needless to say, this was all conjecture on the part of the biographer. http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1664.10;wap2 Jun 01 10, 10:51 PM