When the reel queen met a real queen | The Express Tribune
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KARACHI: Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe was neither the Queen’s subject nor a natural-born Englishwoman who could enjoy perks under Her Majesty. As a traveller who came over from the US to work in her first Trans-Atlantic feature film The Prince and the Showgirl , but ended up ruining the lives of her co-star and director Sir Laurence Olivier and damaging her own marital and mental life in the process. If you are thinking that The Seven Year Itch actress had an affair with her co-star, then you are on the wrong track because according to this book, it was the cruel British tabloids, newspapers, and paparazzi that played the role of a villain here and kept making the guests uncomfortable, long before they did the same to their very own Princess of Wales, Diana. It was because of them that Monroe was a shadow of herself and even though she made friends during her stay in England, the list of foes was far greater. According to this well-researched book, it was July