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How devastated Queen found comfort in Princess Margaret amid annus horribilis
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1992 s annus horribilis had left the Queen so shaken that she was left inconsolable .
According to royal biographer Andrew Morton, the aforementioned year was marred with months of crises which included part of Windsor Castle being burned down, Princess Diana’s tell-all and Prince Andrew’s divorce from Sarah Ferguson.
However, Morton writes in his book
Elizabeth & Margaret that the Queen found her strength in her sister Princess Margaret. Fortunately for Elizabeth, Margaret was there for her in 1992, the Queen’s annus horribilis. The worst year of the Queen’s reign began with the separation in March of the Duke and Duchess of York and continued with the divorce in April of her daughter Princess Anne from Captain Mark Phillips, he wrote.
Like most companies around the world, particularly in the hard-hit energy sector, 2020 was an
annus horribilis for BP. The British oil giant released its full 2020 results on February 2
nd, revealing losses of $5.7 billion after the coronavirus pandemic axed demand for transport fuels and sent oil prices through the floor. To compound the company’s challenges, critics took Bernard Looney, BP’s newly-minted chief executive, to task for not going far enough to push Rosneft – in which the British company holds 20% - to reduce its emissions more aggressively. But a recent sustainability and carbon management agreement between BP and Rosneft, unveiled on February 4