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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]
Margaret abandoned her plans with Townsend. In 1960, she married Antony Armstrong-Jones, whom Elizabeth created Earl of Snowdon. The couple had two children, David and Sarah. Margaret's marriage to Lord Snowdon became strained, with both of them engaging in extramarital affairs. They separated in 1976 and divorced in 1978. Margaret did not remarry.
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017) was a British photographer. He is best known internationally for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue , Vanity Fair , The Sunday Times Magazine , The Sunday Telegraph Magazine , and other major venues.
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.
The four royal twenty-somethings are the great-grandchildren of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Get to know Samuel Chatto, Arthur Chatto, Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount ...
On May 6, 1960, Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. It made history as the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, with an estimated 300 million ...
They had two children: Susan Anne Armstrong-Jones (12 February 1927 – 9 May 1986), who married John Vesey, 6th Viscount de Vesci; Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), who married Princess Margaret; Anne married Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, on 19 September 1935. Rosse had extensive estates in ...
Three years later, in May 1960, Margaret married a magazine photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones, later known as Lord Snowden, at Westminster Abbey. The couple had two children, David and Sarah ...