Royal News Round Up 11-10-09: Missing security, MBEs, and Margaret’s letter

Oops! Eugenie loses security

Princess Eugenie of York, 19, claims she provided her security detail with the route she planned to take on her night out but managed to lose them half way through.

In the end the princess had to enlist the help of a regular policeman, admitting she lost her security guards.

“She was obviously concerned and needed to find them as quickly as possible,” a police source told The Daily Mirror. “She said she had told the two officers where she was going and appeared to be lost herself.”

Eugenie is sixth in line to the throne and a freshman student at Newcastle University. Her time at the university is a subject of debate amongst Scotland Yard, who say that the cost of covering the Princess’ security around the clock is stretching the slim budget.

The butcher, the baker, the biro maker?

Last Friday (11-6), Her Majesty the Queen awarded an MBE to William Lloyd Williams for services to the meat industry.

The popular Welsh butcher is well-known in his home town of Machynlleth in Powys. The locals know Williams for always having a pen ready to take an order no matter what time of the day or night, and apparently old habits die hard.

Poised to accept his honor from the Queen, Williams was photographed with a pen tucked behind his ear.

“I was accepting this award on behalf of the old fashioned butcher and as far as I’m concerned the pen is the symbol of your independent local butcher,” said Williams.

”They are closing every week, it is important to keep this rural local service going. It doesn’t matter where you live, support your local butcher this Christmas.”

Princess Margaret letter reveals more on romance

She was a beautiful young princess in love with a much older war hero. It was the love story of the century turned into a doomed affair.

Princess Margaret’s decision not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, a divorcee, has always been thought to have been made under pressure from the Court and senior figures within the Church of England. The Queen herself had bowed to the pressure as a young new monarch, causing a rift between her and her sister.

Now, a letter written by Princess Margaret to then-Prime Minister Anthony Eden has been unearthed, changing the history of events entirely.

Christopher Warwick, the princess’ official biographer and close friend, said the letter was “a very remarkable and significant historical document which puts a completely different complexion on the accepted version of events”.

It was a confident Princess Margaret who wrote, very much in control of her destiny, questioning whether or not she loved Townsend as much as she thought.

“At the end of October or early November I very much hope to be in a position to tell you and the other Commonwealth Prime Ministers what I intend to do,” she stated.

The Queen, said Margaret, knew that she was writing to Prime Minister Eden but told him to keep the letter confidential since everything was still “so uncertain”.

Margaret was not as helpless or pressured as was once believed.

“What is certain as a result of this letter,” continued Mr. Warwick, “is that she knew the Government was paving the way for the marriage if she wanted it and it proves that she was so much more involved in the process than she ever let on.”