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Princess Margarita of Romania, once described as the love of Gordon Brown's life, talks to Clive Asl |
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Written by The Telegraph (UK)
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Monday, 21 May 2007 10:00 |
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'Romantic. Beautiful. I fell madly in love' "In a rare interview, Princess Margarita of Romania, once described as the love of Gordon Brown's life, talks to Clive Aslet about her time in Edinburgh. They may not have made the most obvious couple, but theirs was a fairy-tale romance. A socialist student firebrand meets a beautiful young princess. They fall in love. Political principles force them apart. He turns, not into a frog, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer. She ought to return to her fairy-tale castle, only for Princess Margarita of Romania, there isn't one. Her father, King Michael, was marched out of Romania in 1947. Last week, while her former inamorato prepared to assume the mantle of Prime Minister, Princess Margarita was in London putting the finishing touches to an event to raise money for her charity in aid of Romania's orphans and the elderly. Although events of 30 years ago have been overtaken by more momentous concerns, the five-year love affair between Gordon Brown and his Romanian princess was such that all who knew them in their student days were convinced they would marry. And throughout his bachelor years, until he met Sarah Macaulay, the woman who became his wife, Brown is said to have deeply regretted that they did not...."
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