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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II .
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Did Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend ever reunite? In 1959, four years after their breakup, Townsend wrote Margaret a letter saying he was marrying a 19-year-old named Marie-Luce Jamagne, his ...
Lord Snowdon, Lady Bird Johnson, Princess Margaret, and the United States president Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on 17 November 1965. In February 1960, Snowdon, then known as Antony Armstrong-Jones, became engaged to the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and they married on 6 May 1960 at Westminster Abbey.