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In 1961, Margaret's husband was created Earl of Snowdon. The couple had two children (both born by Caesarean section at Margaret's request): [145] David, born 3 November 1961, and Sarah, born 1 May 1964. [102] The marriage widened Margaret's social circle beyond the court and aristocracy to include show business celebrities and bohemians.
The Independent wrote in Townsend's obituary that "He developed, too, a perceptible sense of relief that things turned out the way they did", because "for men like Mark Phillips and Princess Margaret's eventual husband Antony Armstrong-Jones, [marrying into the royal family] turned out to be an almost impossible undertaking". [39]
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.
The forbidden romance between Princess Margaret (b. August 1930 – February 2002) and Captain Peter Wooldridge Peter Townsend (November 1914 – June 1995) was revisited in its final chapters ...
According to multiple reports, Peter had been interviewed by Margaret's father, George VI, for a position as his equerry, when he first met the 14-year-old princess at Buckingham Palace. Peter ...
The romance between Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret captured the public's attention in the 1950s. Details of their relationship are chronicled in early seasons of Netflix's "The Crown," and ...
Cecil Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden (née Pawle; 9 May 1921 – 27 February 2004) was a British socialite and artist, best known as the first wife of Group Captain Peter Townsend, who later became romantically involved with Princess Margaret.
He was the husband of Princess Margaret, the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth. On the scene of an apartment fire in the Cass Corridor, Snowdon captured firefighters on a ladder ...