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Princess Margaret linked to gangster lover in Channel 4 documentary

The late Princess Margaret is to be the subject of a second unflattering programme about her love life by Channel 4 in two months.

The next documentary will allege that the Queen's sister had a sexual relationship with the notorious London gangster turned actor John Bindon.

The programme, The Gangster and the Princess, will focus on her relationship with Bindon when she stayed on the Caribbean island of Mustique after the break-up of her marriage to Lord Snowdon.

One of Princess Margaret's many biographers Noel Botham told the programme: "I have no doubt that John Bindon and Margaret were lovers.

"The Princess would telephone the villa on Mustique, where Bindon was staying, and would ask him over to her house. This occurred more or less on a nightly basis.

"Margaret loved partying in Mustique and loved people stripping off. According to Bindon, she used to take photographs of naked limbo dancers."
Read entire article at Telegraph