By Katherine Tinsley
6:25pm PDT, Aug 21, 2025
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Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle aren't the only members of the royal family who've faced
bullying allegations over the years.
Princess Margaret reportedly set the standard — and according to a new report, she had no shame over the harsh way she treated staff members.
Keep reading for the details…
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Tom Quinn claims in his book, Yes, Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, that Princess Margaret "could never really quite believe that she needed to change the way she treated her staff."
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Tom Quinn alleged that if Princess Margaret's TV was warm, she'd be put into a "rage." He explained that the princess assumed if the TV was warm, it meant someone else has been using it. "She also hated it if any of her personal things had been moved without permission and would berate a servant in front of others, which could be humiliating," he wrote.
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Princess Margaret didn't care that her behavior harmed others. "She didn't care because she had, I think, a slightly sadistic streak or maybe wanted to hurt people because she had been hurt," one staffer told Tom Quinn, who shared that Margaret would tell her team, "Shoo! Shoo!" or "Go on, bugger off," when she argued with her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones.
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While some staffers viewed Princess Margaret as cold, others experienced a warmer side of her. "When she heard I was getting divorced, she insisted I take extra time off if I needed it – she gave me two weeks and said if it wasn't enough, I was to take more. She was really sweet about it," one former servant told Tom Quinn.
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"Margaret's treatment of her staff has a transitional feel to it. She had a great deal of her ancestors' tendency to treat staff as objects, at the same time occasionally seeing and responding to their humanity," Tom Quinn noted. "When she got angry with her staff, it was often because she was angry with her life and especially with her relationship with her husband, Lord Snowdon [Antony Armstrong-Jones]."
