On 9 February 2002, Princess Margaret, the only sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died.
In the low-key and solemn salute, the sad sister and the mother who is over a hundred years old become a dazzling cruel landscape.
Margaret is known as the "spoiled princess", and has been loved by her parents and sister since she was a child, but at the age of 72, she left before her mother, which is inevitable to make people sigh.
But this is also a wake-up call for many people to cherish life: stay away from smoking.
Some people will be very dismissive: since ancient times, how many smokers, just as live a long life!
Indeed, even Margaret's mother, the Queen Consort, was a smoker, but she lived to be 101 years old. But for Margaret, it's a sad fact, only because she's overindulging.
For cigarettes, Margaret can be called an "old driver", starting to swallow clouds and fog from the age of 15. However, at that time, she was bright and beautiful, and she would attract everyone's attention everywhere she went.
George VI, the father who loved his daughter Rubao, knew that his daughter would not have a throne to enjoy in the future, so in order to balance the unfairness in his heart, he chose to indulge in his daughter's bad habits.
Even, in order to please her daughter, she will personally serve some high-grade tobacco to meet her daughter's needs.
In less than two years, Princess Margaret went from a child who secretly smoked behind the back of an adult to an old smoker who came at any time and had her own fixed favorite brand.
However, at that time, Margaret did not smoke anytime and anywhere, and there was still a long way to go from the idea of addiction. But at the beginning of her love affair, she fell in love with one of her father's bodyguards: Peter Townsend.
She loved passionately and deeply, completely oblivious to the reality that Peter was 16 years older than her and the fact that she was married and had two sons.
Princess Margaret's love affair is destined not to be complete.
Because according to the royal regulations at that time, members of the royal family could not marry divorcees.
At the same time, divorcees cannot enter the state church, and Margaret, as the head of the state church, certainly cannot unite with a "pagan".
It is said that about Margaret's love affair, from the royal family and the government to the public, the red card was uniformly given.
However, the Parliamentarian Minister made a decision just in case: if the princess had to marry Peter, she would automatically give up the right to inherit the throne and become a commoner.
Margaret made a very difficult choice, and finally tearfully announced:
"I want everyone to know that I have decided not to marry captain Peter Townsend. I knew that I could have entered into a civil marriage in the event that I renounced my inheritance, but given the church's doctrine that Christian marriage was indivisible, and my responsibility to the Federation, I decided to put those considerations first. ”
In this way, Margaret became the one who "saved" the face of the royal family, and the queen's sister once supported her marriage to a photographer because of her sister's abandonment and dedication.
But a marriage without love has no soul, which is also cruel to Princess Margaret, so after giving birth to children, she finally chose to divorce, becoming the first person in the royal family to divorce in more than four hundred years.
And it was in love that Margaret indulged her life, smoking, drinking, partying... It seems that her life is stuck on pleasure, and she does not know that behind it is the unspeakable, unchangeable fate of sadness.
Margaret's smoking is no longer the number of ordinary people, she is almost unable to leave her hands at her worst, and wherever she goes, she must be followed by a servant holding an ashtray.
And the fact that she smokes 60 cigarettes a day is a record that the royal family has never been broken, at least, it is very difficult for ordinary people to smoke so much in a day.
Using a cigarette to describe Margaret has become a very image, and her body is also contrary to health, and her beautiful appearance is gradually drifting away.
There is a photograph of Margaret with her sister Elizabeth II in her sixties, and although she was still able to support the image of the outside world, it was an indisputable fact that her face was dull, her skin was dull, and the color spots were difficult to hide.
In any case, this image could not be compared with the image of her youth, and even directly left behind by her sister.
In fact, Margaret was not in good health by this time, and she developed chest pain in 1985.
But at this time, Margaret was still accompanied by smoke, even if the doctor asked her to quit smoking, she still did not last long, and set up the former "smoking gun".
Regarding pneumonia, headaches, tracheitis, laryngitis, these have become a part of Margaret's body, they are tightly wrapped around the princess's health, "swearing to die".
But Margaret did not pay attention to it, after all, these are small problems, as long as it does not affect life, she can coexist peacefully with it, and she has a queen sister, a queen mother, spending money is not a problem, at any time can have the best medical care for her "life".
Later, Margaret could only stay healthy by "sacrificing" part of her lungs.
In such a situation, smoking must be eliminated. But no one could restrain this wayward princess, and after being discharged from the hospital, she rose up and made up for the smoke she did not smoke during the hospital, swallowing clouds and spitting out fog every day.
Finally, Margaret ushered in a "sick and down" collapse life, she suffered a stroke, the entire left side of the body can not move, can only enter and exit in a wheelchair.
This image, coupled with a gaunt and morbid appearance, the former "party princess" has long been out of reach.
In a photo of her later years, she is in a wheelchair with her mother and sister in the same frame, at this time the empress dowager has long been prepared to send her daughter away, because the younger daughter looks so sick and has no vitality.
Sure enough, on February 9, 2002, Princess Margaret's life came to an end.
She left a will: she did not invite her former friends and many fans to the funeral. Perhaps, at this moment, she regretted the reality of her own smoking, which not only made her lose her health, but also lost her external image.
At the funeral, Empress Wang sent her daughter on her last journey, an old lady with white hair, how much endurance must she have to make herself mourn?
The princess, who was loved to the tip of her heart, was named by herself and her husband: Margaret Rose, which translates to Greek, which means pearl or rose.
Parents love their children like this, giving her the most beautiful meaning and giving her the deepest love. But what Princess Margaret gave her mother was only the grief of the white-haired man sending the brunette.
She may have loved all her life and her heart is difficult to understand, but is it really right to choose to indulge herself for this reason?