Princess Margaret

5 Things To Know About ‘the Crown’s Royal ‘bad Girl

... was not only 16 years older than Margaret, but also a father-of-two and a divorcee to boot. Back in the 1950 s it was forbidden by the Church of England for a divorcee to marry inside of a Church, and Margaret was ordered to either relinquish her title, and claim to the throne — like her uncle before her — or break off her engagement to Captain Townsend. She chose the latter. Margaret later went on to marry photographer, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, which caused ripples throughout the Royal world due to his lowly “commoner” status. The couple had two children together, son, David, and daughter, Sarah. They eventually divorced in 1978, following years of fighting and alleged affairs on both sides. 5. A Princess passes. Margaret made her last public appearance in Dec. 2001, when she attended the 100 th birthday celebration of her aunt, The Duchess of Gloucester. After suffering a number of health issues over the previous twenty years, the frail and sickly Margaret was wheelchair bound ...

Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret’s Ex-husband, Dies At 86

... the Queen’s younger sister whom he met while working as the society photographer for Tatler Magazine, in May 1960 at Westminster Abbey, and the couple went on to live in apartments at Kensington Palace. From then on, he was known by the titles the Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley. Also Read: 'The Crown': 7 Reasons the Golden Globes Darling Is So Worth Watching (Photos). The couple had two children: David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, but the marriage suffered very public bumps early on. Margaret and Lord Snowdon’s break-up lasted 16 years, with reports of drinking, drugs and bizarre behavior on both sides. They eventually divorced in 1978 after Princess Margaret began an affair with Roddy Llewellyn. Also Read: 'The Crown' Characters, Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos). Snowdon went on to marry Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg and have a third child named Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones. He also allegedly fathered Jasper William Oliver Cable-Alexander in 1978 with Melanie Cable-Alexander, an editor at Country Life magazine, the revelation of which led to his ...

Netflix’s The Crown Is Already Plotting Diana-charles Drama

... world,” Morgan said. “We get a classlessness and a modernity beginning to creep in. It is going to be terrific.”. While speaking with The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby earlier this year, the British actress also offered us some second-season clues about her own character, Princess Margaret, whose tragic romance with Peter Townsend was depicted in the show’s first season. “She meets [the photographer and her eventual husband] Antony Armstrong-Jones, and she goes head first into a completely new, exciting, dangerous, volatile, dysfunctional relationship and then marriage,” Kirby told us of Margaret, who had a reputation for rubbing elbows with the movie stars and musicians of the era. “Tony starts this whole trail of a more bohemian life outside,” Kirby said. “Margaret was best friends with Elizabeth Taylor, and she had loads of American actress friends and singers. You see these two worlds collide—hers and Tony’s, who is a member of the public and was a creative, liberal, dark horse. Meanwhile she is this epitome of the establishment. I’ve been doing tons of research about it recently, and seen people say there was never such an ill-fated match because Margaret and ...

Lord Snowdon, Photographer And Former Husband Of Princess Margaret, Dies Aged 86

... was a keen designer, creating the plans for London Zoo's aviary, built in 1965 and now grade II* listed, and was responsible for the design of the Prince of Wales' 1969 investiture ceremony at Caernarfon Castle. He also championed the cause of disabled people, creating a mobilised platform to give them greater mobility and sitting on a number of bodies and organisations. Margaret and Antony had two children David - now the Second Earl of Snowdon - and Lady Sarah Chatto before they divorced in 1978. That year he married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg but - after having a daughter - she left him weeks before Country Life journalist Melanie Cable-Alexander bore him a son, and they divorced in September 2000. Earlier there was sadness - and scandal - when, on New Year's Eve 1996, his long-term mistress, journalist Ann Hills, took her life with a drugs overdose. Lord Snowdon was frail in his later years, using a wheelchair or sticks because of a recurrence of his childhood polio and he retired from the House of Lords in March 2016. Lord Snowdon also had a five-year relationship with Marjorie Wallace, the former journalist and founder of the mental health charity Sane. Ms Wallace , ...

Lord Snowdon, Photographer Who Married Britain’s Princess Margaret, Dies At 86

... well as in his artwork. While married to his second wife, Lucy Lindsay-Hogg — with whom he had a daughter, Frances — he had a relationship with a journalist 33 years his junior, Melanie Cable-Alexander, and fathered a son, Jasper. “It’s trite, but not wholly untrue,” writer A. A. Gill observed for Australian Magazine in 2014, “to say a great deal of Antony Armstrong-Jones’ life came out of the skillful double act of Tony and Snowdon, a mutual ventriloquism where one of them, then the other, plays the dummy.”. Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones was born in London on March 7, 1930. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was the sister of Oliver Messel, the noted stage designer. Lord Snowdon had studied architecture at the University of Cambridge but was expelled after failing his final exams. He would go on, however, to ...

Exorcist' Author William Peter Blatty Dead At 89

... a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89. Blatty died Thursday at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where he lived, his widow, Julie Alicia Blatty, told The Associated Press. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, she said. Inspired by an incident that unfolded in St. Louis and Washington, D. C., that Blatty had read about while in college, "The Exorcist" was published in 1971, followed two years later by the film of the same name. Blatty's story of a 12-year-old-girl inhabited by a satanic force spent more than a year on The New York Times fiction best-seller list and eventually sold more than 10 million copies. It reached a far wider audience through the movie version, directed by William Friedkin, produced and written by Blatty and ...

Queen Elizabeth Ii Did Not Break Her Sisterhood Promise On ‘the Crown’ Opinion

... she made to their father. Margaret’s conscience is not pricked or bothered by it, one bit. She wants what she wants. The “sisterhood” promise was born out of the conflict, and controversy their uncle had wrought on the family with his identical impasse. David threw away the crown so he could marry a two-time divorcee. A marriage, he was denied for the same reason Margaret is denied hers. Margaret crying and carrying on as the injured party, when she threw herself on the train tracks is ridiculous. The final scene of Season 1 shows Elizabeth having her picture made, all alone. Whether purposeful or not, the insinuation is that Elizabeth has turned to the “dark side,” pushing her family’s happiness aside to maintain her personal power, when the exact opposite is true. She is only abiding by her duty as a queen, and the daughter of a king. Elizabeth is not the bad guy in this scenario. Margaret knows when she embarks on her relationship with Peter that she will face the same resistance her uncle did. Her only hope at avoiding the same outcome is to successfully manipulate her sister’s affections. ...

Who Was Lord Snowdon? Former Husband Of Princess Margaret Dead Aged 86

... Buckingham Palace released a statement saying the Queen has been informed of her former brother-in-law’s death. The couple had one daughter together, Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones. Lord Snowdon also fathered a daughter, Polly Fry, shortly before marrying Princess Margaret in 1960. A DNA test taken by Polly in 2004 confirmed the Earl was her father, but he denied taking the test until four years later when he admitted the truth. Commonly known as Lord Snowdon, Armstrong-Jones was an English photographer and film maker. The photographic agency he worked with – Camera Press – confirmed he “died peacefully at home on 13 January 2017”. Times Newspapers Ltd. Lord Snowdon with a copy of his book ‘Snowdon on Stage’. What was Lord Snowdon famous for. Other than being married to the Queen’s only sibling, Lord Snowdon was known for his ...

Princess Margaret's Ex-husband Antony Armstrong-jones Has Died At Age 86

... sadly mourning the loss of another British royal family member. Princess Margaret's ex-husband, photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, passed away on Friday, Jan. 13, the photo agency he previously worked for confirmed to the Daily Mail. He was 86-years-old. "The Earl of Snowdon died peacefully at home," Camera Press said in a statement. The late Princess Margaret — who is Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister — married Antony at London's Westminster Abbey on May 6, 1960. Their wedding was the first royal nuptials to be broadcast on television and it attracted more than 300 million viewers worldwide. Margaret and Antony at their 1960 royal wedding. (Photo Credit: Getty Images). Margaret's wedding dress was designed by Norman Hartnell and worn with the royal family's Poltimore tiara. She was escorted down the aisle by her brother-in-law, Prince Philip, because the princess's father, King George VI, passed away in 1952, eight years before her nuptials. During their union, Margaret and Antony had two children, son David Armstrong-Jones, 2 nd Earl ...

Lord Snowdon, Photographer And Former Husband Of Princess Margaret, Dies Aged 86

... divorced in 1978. That year he married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg but - after having a daughter - she left him weeks before Country Life journalist Melanie Cable-Alexander bore him a son, and they divorced in September 2000. Earlier there was sadness - and scandal - when, on New Year's Eve 1996, his long-term mistress, journalist Ann Hills, took her life with a drugs overdose. Lord Snowdon was frail in his later years, using a wheelchair or sticks because of a recurrence of his childhood polio and he retired from the House of Lords in March 2016. Lord Snowdon also had a five-year relationship with Marjorie Wallace, the former journalist and founder of the mental health charity Sane. Ms Wallace , Sane's chief executive, paid tribute to the photographer: " I collaborated closely with Lord Snowdon from the 1970 s, working on stories, mainly for the Sunday Times, which exposed injustices to ...

Inside Princess Margaret’s Doomed Love Affair With Peter Townsend

... Suzanne Mackie explains, “The story we wanted to tell was as Townsend came into her life and her father was dying. One can imagine how adrift Margaret would have been, and being vulnerable and her sister being Queen, and possibly feeling marooned. You can see why she might turn to the dashing war hero who was her father’s confidante.”. One person who isn’t surprised at the renewed excitement and interest in the glamorous princess is the creator of the series, Peter Morgan. “By looking five degrees to the left or the right of the Queen, there are these extraordinarily complex and interesting human beings, each of whom have more colorful stories to tell in many ways,” he says. “As soon as you start telling those stories, it’s a real eye-opener for people.”. “Margaret is a very vivid character and a very strong flavor,” notes, “and she divided people the older she got.”. He ...