Princess Marie Louise had been on the gin back in '37 too. Here she is, even before Queen Mary arrived, closely eyeing up the Bench of Bishops. But if you had had the marriage she did...

However, in 1937, her sister, Princess Helena Victoria, was still with us. She kept a firm grip on the bottle and also on Marie Louise: there were no incidents on the way out, as were to occur 16 years later.