This extract from the press sheds a little more light on the closeness.
" Being only 10 months apart in age, she and Princess Elizabeth were “obvious potential playmates” when the Yorks were at Balmoral. They rode hill ponies and picnicked together. “We had blissfully happy times up in Scotland. Birkhall [the small house on the estate, beloved of the Queen Mother and now the Prince of Wales] was a very special place in the lives of all the family.” While she was doing a secretarial course at Egham during the war, Margaret, aged 17, was invited to live at Windsor Castle. Then when she landed a secretarial job at MI6, Buckingham Palace became her “wonderfully convenient” second home. "
I have a pic with Margaret playing with Elizabeth and Margaret and will try harder to find it.
Margaret Rhodes' mother and the Queen Mother were close as sisters.
--Previous Message-- : neice and aunt : : --Previous Message-- : What a lovely appellation ! May I ask what : the special connection between the Hon. : Margaret Rhodes and The Queen Mother was? : : --Previous Message-- : I should also have added that Hon. Margaret : Rhodes is 1st cousin of The Queen her mother : being sister of The Queen Mother, who : referred to Margaret as her 3rd daughter. : : --Previous Message-- : This mystery tiara was solved and identified : as being borrowed from Lord/Lady Plunket. : : I am reading Hon. Margaret Rhodes book The : Final Curtsey. : : Hon Margaret married Denys Rhodes, grandson : of 5th Lord Pluunket through his mother Lady : Helen Plunket. : : : : : : : : :
on November 26, 2011, 6:23 pm, in reply to "