Joanna Lumley has said that Princess Margaret was the “prototype” of her character in Absolutely Fabulous.
Lumley claimed: “At this moment in strange royal life, everybody said, ‘Princess Margaret is not allowed to drink at the moment.
“I thought, ‘You can’t have a reception with Princess Margaret and not offer any drink.
In the popular 1990s comedy series, Lumley played Patricia “Patsy” Stone, a hard-partying fashion director, opposite Jennifer Saunders’s Eddie Monsoon.