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- Saturday, October 13, Princess Margaret was the guest of honor at Abra’s Drake Tower penthouse with its posh address on North Lake Shore Drive, then called “the richest block in Chicago.” Abra and her little children lived on the 29th and 30th floors in the Drake Tower penthouse.
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Nov 9, 2019 · In season three of The Crown, we can expect to see her marriage unravel in Kensington Palace where she lived with Antony Armstrong-Jones (also known as Lord Snowdon) for most of their 18...
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Jul 16, 2020 · On October 11, 1979, Princess Margaret (1926-2001) and her entourage landed in Chicago to begin her tour of America to raise funds for the renovation of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London. As President of the Royal Ballet, she would appear in five cities over a course of sixteen days.
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.
Nov 17, 2019 · Princess Margaret and her sister Queen Elizabeth were purportedly very close, but due to their positions in the royal hierarchy, they led entirely different lives.
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- Princess Margaret’s Birth Made Scottish History
- She Unexpectedly Moved Up The Line of Succession
- She Was A Lifelong Lover of Music
- A Book About Her Childhood Caused A Major Scandal
- The Princess Celebrated Among The Crowds on Ve Day
- She Was Unable to Marry Her First True Love
- Her Wedding Was Watched by 300 Million People
- She Was The First Royal to Be Divorced Since Henry VIII
- The Ira Allegedly Plotted to Assassinate Her
- Her Later Years Were Blighted by Ill Health
Princess Margaret was born on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, making her the first senior member of the royal family to be born north of the border since King Charles Iin 1600. Located in Angus, the sprawling country estate was the ancestral home of her mother, the Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother). At the time of her birth, Mar...
One of Margaret’s first major public appearances came in 1935 at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of her grandfather, King George V. When the monarch died the following year, Margaret’s uncle briefly took the throne as King Edward VIII, until his famous abdication in December 1936. With her father reluctantly proclaimed King George VI, the princess ...
Before her father’s accession to the throne, Princess Margaret spent much of her early childhood at her parents’ townhouse at 145 Piccadilly in London (later destroyed during the Blitz), as well as at Windsor Castle. Never shy about being the centre of attention, the princess demonstrated an early aptitude for music, learning to play the piano aged...
Like her elder sister, Margaret was raised by a Scottish governess named Marion Crawford – affectionately known by the royal family as ‘Crawfie’. Coming from humble origins, Crawford saw it as her duty to make sure the girls had as normal an upbringing as possible, taking them on regular shopping trips and visits to swimming baths. After retiring f...
During the Second World War, Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth were both sent away from Buckingham Palace to stay at Windsor Castle, where they could escape the German bombs. However, after years of living in relative seclusion, the young sisters famously went incognito among the British public on VE Day(8 May 1945). After appearing on the b...
As a young woman, Princess Margaret kept a busy social life, and was romantically linked with a number of very wealthy suitors. However, she fell head over heels for Group Captain Peter Townsend, who was serving as an equerry (personal attendant) to her father. A hero of the Battle of Britain, the dashing RAF pilot would have normally been an attra...
Despite the protracted crisis surrounding her relationship with Peter Townsend, Margaret seemed to have put the events behind her by 1959, when she became engaged to the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. An old Etonian who had dropped out of Cambridge after failing his exams, Armstrong-Jones apparently met Margaret at a dinner party hosted by on...
During the ‘swinging’ 1960s, the Earl and Countess of Snowdon moved in glittering social circles that included some of the most famous actors, musicians and other celebrities of the era. Margaret, for instance, forged associations with the likes of fashion designer Mary Quant, although her relationship with the London gangster-turned-actor John Bin...
While on a royal tour of the United States in 1979, Princess Margaret allegedly described the Irish as “pigs” during a dinner conversation with Jane Byrne, the mayor of Chicago. Just a few weeks earlier, Margaret’s cousin – Lord Mountbatten – had been killed by an IRA bomb while on a fishing trip in County Sligo, causing outcry around the world. Al...
Like her late father King George VI, Princess Margaret was a heavy smoker – a habit that eventually began to take a significant toll on her health. In 1985, following a suspected case of lung cancer (the same disease that had led to her father’s death), Margaret underwent surgery to have a small part of her lung removed, although it turned out to b...
Nov 2, 2022 · The drama of Princess Margaret's 1965 trip to the US and her meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson played out in the season 3 of 'The Crown', but here’s the real story.
Sep 15, 2022 · Margaret came to the world on August 21, 1930, at Glamis Castle, which was chosen as the location because it was the ancestral home of her mother, the Duchess of York (later better known as the Queen Mother).
