A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography A Guardian Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Daily Mail Book of the Year Best summer books 2018, Newsday A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 An NPR Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year

"A dishy dive into the real deal." --Vogue

"[A] supercharged biography." --Vanity Fair

"Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven." --Hamish Bowles, Vogue

"Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat." --Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal

"Craig Brown's Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a royal biography unlike any another. Come for the Instagram-worth cover, and stay for a few chapters where Brown veers away from history to dwell in what could have been for the Queen's sister." --Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country

"Brown ignores all the starchy obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to trap the past and ensnare the reader -- even this reader, so determinedly indifferent to the royals. I ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaret's misbehavior -- sometimes campy, sometimes desperate -- to those who gawked at her, who huddled around her, pens poised over their diaries, hoping for the show she never denied them." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

"Craig Brown's delectable Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is not a novel, though its subject seems like a sublime work of fiction, too imperious to be true . . . Brown has done something astonishing: He makes the reader care, even sympathize, with perhaps the last subject worthy of such affection... His book is big fun, equal measures insightful and hysterical." --Karen Heller, The Washington Post

"This unsettling, incisive and honest book also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny, and is a startlingly original contribution to the genre of biography." --Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times

"In Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, award-winning journalist Craig Brown offers an acerbic biography of the star-crossed princess, one that is hilarious and bittersweet in turns . . . Brown's book is highly recommended for all American royal-watchers." --Catherine Hollis, BookPage

"An original, memorable and substantial achievement." --Times Literary Supplement

"Brown's portrait of Margaret is by turns funny and moving, and every page contains at least one telling detail about what makes Margaret such a compelling avatar of royalty." --Constance Gracy, Vox

"In addition to giving us a fantastical portrait of a woman painted by many hands, this wicked, thoroughly entertaining book presents a rich, unwholesome slice of social and cultural history of Britain, especially from the 1950s to 1970s." --Katharine Powers, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and clinically fascinating." --The Times (London)

"Hilarious and eye-opening." --The Observer (London)

"Hugely entertaining . . . Brilliantly written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful, moving tone." --The Spectator