Eve Perrick -- I Inspect the Royal Escort - And Suggest He Charms The Snakes. Brigadier Sir Norman Gwatkin Who said Charm? Who said tact? The setting: St. James's Palace - rather cosy room there, in which a modern gas-fire somehow managed to look not too inconsistent against the fading oil portraits of Queen Victoria and Consort Albert. Time: the ice-snow - smog-and-benighted present. Subject under discussion. The duties of a Gentleman in Attendance to princess Margaret on her Caribbean tour. January 22, 1955. (Photo by Daily Express).