07-08-2007 13:00
The life story of Britain's Princess Margaret has become the subject of a battle between two authors.
Royal biographer Tim Heald has slammed a critic who he claims gave his book 'Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled' a bad review because he wants to write an biography about her himself.
Richard Davenport-Hines dismissed Heald's tome as "increasingly clichéd" and the author as "sweetly gauche".
But Heald told Britain's Daily Mail: "I'd been warned that Richard was going to do a review and that it was going to be a stinker because it was a book he had wanted to write himself.
"Don't ask me why, because as far as I know he has no particular royal qualifications.
"I met someone claiming to be him at a party and he seemed to be a perfectly well-intentioned, second-rate academic. End of story."
Davenport-Hines, who has previously written a biography of poet W.H. Auden, rubbished Heald's criticisms.
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