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Barrymaine agreed that Margaret intended the statement to mean that she would never marry, but wrote that Townsend likely did not accept any such vow to him by the princess, and his subsequent departure from Britain for two years was to not interfere with her life. [71] "We both had a feeling of unimaginable relief.
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 ...
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.
A married Townsend meets then-teenager Margaret for the first time while accompanying the royal family on a three-month tour to South Africa. His duty was to protect the princess throughout the ...
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 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.