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The press described Margaret's 25th birthday, 21 August 1955, as the day she was free to marry, [71] and expected an announcement about Townsend soon. Three hundred journalists waited outside Balmoral, four times as many as those later following Diana, Princess of Wales . [ 49 ] "
On May 6, 1960, Princess Margaret married Lord Snowdon at Westminster Abbey. It was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, with an estimated 300 million viewers tuning in around ...
Princess Margaret met photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1958 at a dinner party at the Chelsea home of Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. [2] [3] The two had previously encountered each other when Armstrong-Jones was the photographer at the wedding of Margaret's friends, Lady Anne Coke and The Hon. Colin Tennant, in April 1956. [4]
In The Crown’s first season, Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby) is given an impossible choice: Marry Townsend and renounce her royal position, including her title and allowance; or don’t marry ...
Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret's love affair captured the world's attention, but they never married. Here's what to know about their romance and reunion in 1992.
"Margaret" Emilia Fox: Princess Margaret's romance with Peter Townsend: 29 November 2009 2 "Us and Them" Samantha Bond: Early 1970s civil unrest and attempted kidnapping of Anne, Princess Royal: 30 November 2009 3 "The Rivals" Susan Jameson: Apartheid (South Africa) boycott and 1986 Commonwealth Games: 1 December 2009 4 "The Enemy Within ...
The pair married in 1960 and divorced 18 years later, staying on good terms until Margaret’s death in 2002. He was the first commoner in over 400 years to marry into the royal family.
They remained married until Margaret died of sepsis on 1 May 1920 at the age of 38. She was eight months into her sixth pregnancy. In 1923, Gustaf Adolf, by then Crown Prince of Sweden, remarried Margaret's first cousin once removed Lady Louise Mountbatten. [citation needed] He acceded to the Swedish throne as Gustaf VI Adolf in 1950 and died ...