![]() ![]() Biographer Noel Botham claimed in his 2002 book Margaret: The Last Real Princess (per Radio Times) that Jennings believed Margaret wanted to convert, but Margaret felt unable to go through with it because it would be a betrayal of her sister. According to several reports, Jennings really did try to convert Margaret-and in at least some versions of the story, she considered it. There's no evidence that Margaret and Jennings ever had such a falling out in real life-in fact, she was one of the last people to see him before he died in 1995.īut the rest of this storyline comes from the truth. ![]() Onscreen, Margaret and Jennings' relationship comes to a dramatic close when he tries to convince her to convert to Catholicism, and she refuses out of loyalty to her family, before telling him she never wants to see him again. Upon his death in 1995, The Times wrote in its obituary (per Radio Times) that Jennings' death "deprives London's religious life of one of its most eccentric comets…he would turn up at country house dinners, theatre festivals, auction houses and modest student gatherings, always yearning to argue the toss, always with an admonitory finger at the ready, always loyal."ĭid Princess Margaret consider converting to Catholicism? After completing his training in Rome, Jennings returned home and ultimately became the chaplain at King's College London, per Metro. He was a notorious and popular figure in London, with a wide circle of friends including the actor Alec Guinness and Princess Margaret. In 1984, he quit his job to take the Holy Orders and become a Catholic priest. Derek Jennings was born in 1946 and worked as a senior civil servant in the British Government’s Department of the Environment. ![]()
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