Princess Margaret 'Ill With Rage' After Queen's Husband Prince Philip Did This

Prince Philip and Princess Margaret had a rift over the latter's second husband's peerage.

Kenneth Rose, a Fleet Street journalist and royal biographer had spent over 20 years with the members of the royal family. According to Joe Gamp, a journalist for Express, he will be releasing the entries of his secret diary in a book that detailed the beef between Prince Philip and Princess Margaret.

Princess Margaret was reportedly "ill with rage" after learning that Prince Philip attempted to block her new husband Tony Armstrong-Jones from becoming Lord Snowdon in 1961. Princess Margaret's husband still received the peerage in October of the same year.

However, months before that Rose wrote: "August 3, 1961: Dinner party at my flat. Martin Gilliat [Queen Mother’s private secretary] stays behind to talk about Princess Margaret and Tony Armstrong-Jones. We agree that at the present time of economic difficulty, some gesture waiving the £50,000 to be spent on their new house in Kensington Palace is needed. Their popularity is lower than ever."

Five days after Lord Snowdon received the peerage, Rose wrote another entry on his diary. "October 11, 1961: On the subject of Tony Armstrong-Jones’s peerage, Strutt [Sir Austin Strutt, Deputy Under-Secretary at the Home Office] tells me that Prince Philip was against it," the entry read.

"Princess Margaret not only insisted, but made herself quite ill with rage when she learned that the peerage patent would not be ready in time for Tony to carry out an official engagement in Glasgow as Earl of Snowdon," he added.

Princess Margaret was known for her terrible attitude. In fact, many were aware of her dislike towards Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson. One time the Duchess of York sent her flowers to keep their friendship after she and Prince Andrew split, but she returned it to Ferguson with an unfriendly note.

"The Duchess of York had sent flowers to Princess Margaret with a little note, no doubt trying to renew their once good friendship and the flowers had been sent straight back with a note from Princess Margaret saying 'How dare you send me flowers, have you ever considered what damage you have done to the Royal Family?'" royal journalist Judy Wade recalled.

The late Princess of Wales also received "wounding" and "excoriating" letter from the Queen's sister after she learned of the former's secret interviews. When Princess Diana died, Princess Margaret's animosity towards her didn't diminish. In fact, she wasn't impressed with the hysteria over Princess Diana's death.

"It was as if when she died she got everyone to be as hysterical as she was," Princess Margaret said.