15 APRIL 1978, Page 17

Princess Margaret

Sir: However much you castigate the national press for their reporting of Princess Margaret's actions, the feeling remains among People who earn their living (and Pay penal taxes on those earnings) that here is a woman in a position of privilege flaunting that privilege in their faces.

They don't care about her private life or Who she goes on holiday with. They accept that is her own affair. What sticks in their throats is that she does it from an annual income of £55,000 (plus all found) while theY have to be content with a 10 per cent increase. The Daily Mirror has more than the right 10 Point out these anomalies in our national fe — not to do so would be against all the traditions of newspapers in this country. To suggest that newspapers ignore national and international issues while concentrating On a woman who generates little affection in the hearts of British people is to distort the fbacfs immensely. In my opinion, the hum , itg You speak of is to be found in your leader column of 8 April. Alan Walsh 25 Gray's Lane, uuoWniey, nigh Wycombe, Bucks