COMMEMORATION OF THE PRINCESS

Memorial service
The funeral of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon took place on Friday 15th February at 3.00pm, in St George's Chapel, Windsor. A Memorial Service was held on Friday 19th April 2002.

Charitable donations
People wishing to make charity donations in memory of Princess Margaret may wish to contribute to the following charities of which the Princess was Patron:

National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
National Centre
42 Curtain Road
LONDON EC2A 3NH
Telephone: 020 7825 2500

The Guide Association
17-19 Buckingham Palace Road
LONDON SW1W OPT
Telephone: 020 7834 6242
E-mail: chq@guides.org.uk

Royal Ballet
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
LONDON WC2E 9DD
Telephone: 020 7240 1200

A commemoration in verse
Professor Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a special poem to mark the life of HRH Princess Margaret. The poem, released on the day of Princess Margaret's funeral, celebrates the life of the Princess in sonnet form.

THE YOUNGER SISTER

The luxuries, of course, and privilege -
The money, houses, holidays, the lot:
All these were real, and all these drove a wedge
Between your life and ours. And yet the thought
Of how no privilege on earth can keep
A life from suffering in love and loss -
This means we turn to you and see how deep
The current runs between yourself and us.

And now death spells it out again, and more,
As it becomes your final human act:
A daughter gone before her mother goes;
A younger sister heading on before;
A woman in possession of the fact
That love and duty speak two languages.

© Andrew Motion