Margaret's mother was the eldest daughter of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres and Princess Françoise of Orléans.

[3] It had been agreed at the time of her parents' wedding that all their sons would be raised Lutheran, their father's creed, and all their daughters Roman Catholic, their mother's faith.

His mother was the Duke's second wife Princess Maria Antonia, daughter of the exiled King Miguel I of Portugal.

There, in New York, Margaret made a living making hats while her husband worked at a gas company and her daughter as a shop assistant.

[4] In June 1951, Margaret was travelling in a car her husband was driving when they ran over a 22-year-old man, Jaja Sorensen, who died soon after being taken to hospital.