Princess Margaret’s correspondence makes plain just how short of cash they were: ‘Many, many thanks for the letters, also for the hairnets,’ she wrote to Lady Corkran* in 1924. ‘£2 does indeed seem too little for the tables so perhaps we had better wait for a better opportunity. Would you send me a cheque for the white one? I am so grateful to you for getting as much as you did for it although more would have been welcome.’
Former Aristocracy and social elites struggling in 1920s.
