Princess Margaret — the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II — engaged in a torrid affair with Hollywood superstar Eddie Fisher in 1953, with Fisher reportedly bragging he satisfied the royal “multiple times” during “explosive sex.”
“Eddie never talked about Princess Margaret in public, he respected her too much, but he told me about their encounter many, many times during our marriage. He looked back on it with great affection,” Terry Richard, Fisher’s fourth wife, told the Daily Mail in a new interview.
Details of the tryst, down to the “cigarette smoke and expensive perfume,” are included in Richard’s new memoir, “Beauty Queen Dreams,” the outlet reported. Richard, 69, was married to Fisher from 1975 to 1976. He died in 2010.
Fisher, then 24 and single, met Princess Margaret, then 22, in 1953 at the Red, White and Blue charity ball at the Dorchester Hotel in London attended by Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother.
“Eddie was smitten with her the first time he saw her,” Richard told the Daily Mail about Margaret.
“He told me she was tiny with the most beautiful piercing blue eyes. He sang for 45 minutes at the ball and directed all his love songs straight at Margaret. When Eddie turned on the charm, he really turned it on,” she added.
Margaret was secretly engaged to divorcee Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend at the time — with Richard claiming she invited Fisher to Clarence House after the show.
“You have to admire her. Her mother and her sister, the Queen, were at the event and she had the courage to whisper in Eddie’s ear and proposition him for sex,” Richard said.
“Eddie told me she was a girl who knew exactly what she wanted, and on the night of the ball she wanted him.”
Richard said the crooner — whom she called the “Harry Styles of his day” — would recall the steamy rendezvous as one of the most passionate and intense sexual encounters of his life.
Margaret reportedly wore a see-through negligee with lace embellishments.
Fisher, meanwhile, got injected with a mixture of amphetamines, steroids, painkillers and animal hormones.
He admitted in memoirs to receiving “vitamin” shots from a “Dr. Feelgood.”
“He told me the sex was explosive. Margaret wasn’t a virgin. She was uninhibited in bed. It went on for ages and they were both satisfied, multiple times. Eddie told me they ‘fit perfectly,’ and she cried out ‘Eddie! Oh, Eddie!’ over and over,” Richard shared.
“He told Dr. Feelgood how great the sex had been, and the doctor told him he shouldn’t expect the same results every time.”
“Once they’d finished their whiskies, Iris, the lady-in-waiting, was called, and she led Eddie back down the stairs and out the way he’d come in. He remembered every detail for years afterwards. There was a chandelier above the bed, the room was decorated in various shades of pink. The pillows were silk,” Richard continued.
“He said Margaret had the most perfect breasts of any woman he had ever slept with — and he slept with a lot of women, including Liz Taylor.”
Richard reported that Fisher also slept with Iris Peake, Margaret’s lady-in-waiting.
Fisher went on to marry Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens, and Betty Lin.
He had four children, including actresses Carrie Fisher and Joely Fisher.
He died at 82 of complications from hip surgery.
For her part, Margaret didn’t end up tying the knot with Townsend amid the drama their romance hath wrought — which played out in Season 5 of “The Crown.”
She married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, and they had two children — David Armstrong-Jones and Sarah Chatto — before divorcing in 1978.
Margaret died in 2002 at the age of 71.
Fisher’s night of passion with Margaret was confirmed in 2016 by Carrie Fisher when she appeared on “The Jonathan Ross Show.”
“My father had sex with Princess Margaret. In a beautiful way, they made love,” Carrie said months before her death at the age of 60. “I’m going to get into a lot of trouble for this.”
