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Margaret and Snowdon divorced in 1978, marking the first royal major divorce since King Henry VIII's in 1540. Lindsay-Hogg and Snowdon married in 1978 just a few months after his divorced from ...
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.
After his divorce from Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon married Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg (née Davies), the former wife of Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet, in December 1978. In 1979, they had a daughter, Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones, who became a designer and board member of the Snowdon Trust. [67]
After her husband died, she was officially known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, [2] to avoid confusion with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.
Princess Margaret with her husband Lord Snowdon and son Viscount Linley shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 1964. Getty Images 7.
This season, in which Helena Bonham Carter takes over the role from Vanessa Kirby, covers a turbulent period in the princess' life beginning in 1964
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]
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.