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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Outbreak of World War II in the Balmoral Castle estate

1939
Scotland, United Kingdom

At the outbreak of World War II, Margaret and her sister were at Birkhall, on the Balmoral Castle estate, where they stayed until Christmas 1939, enduring nights so cold that drinking water in carafes by their bedside froze.


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