

Tom Burke as Dazzle Jennings, a friend and confidant of Princess Margaret. The relationship between Princess Margaret and Fr. Like other members of the Royal Family before her, she was extremely attracted to the Catholic religion."Ī church colleague of Jennings's also told Botham that "Derek believed that at some point Princess Margaret would ask to be received into the Catholic Church"-an astonishing claim, given the Queen's role as the head of the Church of England-but Margaret never publicly converted. The fourth season of The Crown, which follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II. But he was able to answer her many questions about the Catholic Church, for he was always a superb teacher. For various reasons, which of course she well understood, he felt unable to respond to her in that way. She used any excuse to place herself near him, and used a variety of unsubtle ploys to let him know how impressed with him she was. Dazzle was indeed a real Catholic priest with whom Princess Margaret had a close relationship following the end of her messy romance with Roddy Llewellyn (Harry Treadaway). Ironically, Margaret herself flirted with Catholicism later in life having struck up a close friendship with a Catholic priest named Derek 'Dazzle' Jennings in 1981 - although she never publicly. That was the only way to describe her behaviour. With the help of priest Derek Dazzle Jennings (Tom Burke), Princess Margaret discovered her cousins were very much alive and still living at the Royal Earlswood Hospital.

In Noel Botham's 2002 biography Margaret: The Last Real Princess, the author spoke with a colleague of Jennings's, who shared: " was a great comfort to Princess Margret, but she was clearly attracted to him in other ways, too. While the show has been known to take liberties, this religious flirtation is indeed based in fact. Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret in season four of The Crown.
